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...

On CBS Ed East and Ralph Dumke were called the Quality Twins. But that was only in 1937 and 1938.  Before that they were players in the Ch...

Holmes "Daddy-O" Daylie had long career and one minor black radio first. He was the first African-American hosting a regularly s...

Let us consider the legend of  Cliff Arquette. It is said that at one time, he was performing regularly at 13 different daily radio shows ...

It's almost unthinkable now. In 1950 WGN-AM just handed over night programming to Harold Kaye Mailorder service. The company was very r...

Bachelor's Children was a radio soap operate booming out from WGN-AM in Chicago. It started in 1935 and became syndicated on CBS in 193...

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

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...

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...

Uncle Ezra P. Watters didn't really have a radio station. There was no E-Z-R-A in any FCC record. But Ezra did have a radio show, more...

I tried to resist touching this but I loathe micromanagement. It's the unwelcome creative outlet for frustrated MBAs. After reading the...

For a number of years, Emory Cook was considered a truly exceptional audio engineer. He was born and raised in Albany, NY and attended Cor...

Lum and Abner were a comedy duo in the 1930s. Their fame has largely outlived their affiliates, and the men who played the characters. The...

I rejected the idea at first. I was at an antique store somewhere near Galesburg IL. On a shelf of 78s was a book called America Radio Warb...

NBC carried this little known show from 1946 through 1949. The program was aimed at teenage listeners hence the name "Teentimers....

Leonard Baldy was a Chicago native and veteran of World War II. Baldy became a minor celebrity pioneering the use of the radio trafficop...

720 WGN-AM went on air for the first time in March of 1925. By mid summer they were a nationally renowned media outlet. It was a decent st...

The FCC has been turning over a new leaf as of late. No longer do these pesky "rules" obstruct things. Now just a couple well plac...

Irna Phillips earned the title “Queen of the Soap Operas.” Born in Chicago in 1901, youngest of ten children, legend has it that Phillips en...