Doesn't that picture (above) of Larry Lujack just look like a DJ?  (The shot reminds me of  Buster Poindexter for some reason .)  He...

Chickenman was an American radio series created by Dick Orkin. It spoofed adventure books and comic book heroes. The series was created i...

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...

With Tornado season at it's anti-climatic end this season I happened to find a recording of a WCFL broadcast covering the terrible torn...

 That this show ever existed at all is baffling, that it ran for 30 years is even more unusual, that there were others just like it is inexp...

The Wax and Needle Club ran for about two years. DJ Bill Evans ran this top 10 count down show of sorts. The station was 1000 WCFL-AM and t...

Amway is infamous the world over as a direct-sale pyramid scheme. They are not generally known as a media company, but they once dabbled in ...

In the September 1924 issue of Popular Mechanic s (a fine periodical) noted a very peculiar event in radio. Bear in mind that this was only ...

Elvis got a rough shake at radio. He was banned a few times for his hip-shaking in a time that was so uptight you'd think Jedediah Bush...

It began on 02/02/2006, a new Low Power station 104.5 KCFL-LP in Fall City right outside Seattle, WA founded itself as a tribute to Chicag...

  Yvonne Daniels was known as “The First Lady of Chicago Radio,” Her silky smooth professional speaking voice garnered ratings wherever she ...

On Wednesday night-July 21, 1926 WCFL 620AM , Chicago's Voice of Labor, premiered over the airwaves with two hours of music. This even...