Almost everyone knows what a Les Paul guitar is, but history seem to be forgetting Les Paul the person . Firstly, his real name was Lester W...

Our story starts with two radio announcers born only a few years apart with similar names, both working as radio announcers on national netw...

In 1940 they advertised 1130 WJJD-AM as "The Largest Independent radio Station in the Nation."It was probably even true at 20,0...

Halloween Martin was, by most definitions, the first female disk jockey, and quite almost certainly the first in the Chicago metro. She wa...

Art Hellyer, said in a 1993 interview on 97.1 WNIB that he wasn't really a DJ he just "played music as a fill between commercials...

The story starts with the Coon-Sanders Original Kansas City Nighthawks.  The orchestra began broadcasting in 1922 on WDAF-AM . At the time t...

Art Kassel did not start out in radio, he just got there in a hurry. He began in Chicago playing in dixieland bands around 1923.  It was a s...

I almost never shell out more than junk-shop prices for transcription recordings. But this one spoke to me. In transferring it I applied a s...

Reality TV has been an exploding genre since that pasty and trite "Real World" sham graces the cablevision universe with it's ...