Somehow I missed the memo on Bob and Ray. They were on the air for 50 years and I completely missed the boat, discovering them only post...

  There are two gentlemen pictured here, C.J. Ingram and Frank Bremer and this is a Prohibition joke. It appears in a 1923 issue of Radio Ne...

Much is written about the classic novel On the Road, by Jack Kerouac. Virtually every charter in the novel is real, and all of them have t...

I like Jazz, but I have a particular soft spot for Bebop. As a genre, it was short-lived starting with Coleman Hawkins highlights in the e...

This is part three of what will be a 5 part series wrapping this Friday. The Los Angeles Times has a series of biographies of every star on ...

As of this writing there are 2,476 stars in the Hollywood walk of fame. I recently read that only 10% of those are so-called radio stars.  B...

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 ...

The Copacabana Lounge first opened November 10th, 1940. The club was located at 10 East 60th Street in NYC. The owner officially was Monte...

Johannes Steel, a newspaperman and radio commentator whose career was marked by controversy. He was pro-labor, and some called him a commun...

In their March 24th post, The Probe (an MP3 Blog) reminded me recently of the greatness of Bob & Ray. Thank you Phil Milstein. Go t...

It was many moons ago that I posted on the obscure topic of FM radio stations operating on the TV band. But it was an AM station that first ...

 During the "broadcasting boom" of 1922, most radio programming was commercial-free. Most stations were amateur, those that weren...