Radio

The Lone Ranger has endured as an iconic figure in American popular culture, from his 1933 premier as a radio serial hero through a highly-rated...

Shortwave broadcasting originated in the 1920s, when stations used the new technology to increase their range in order to serve foreign audience...

From 1950 to 1960, millions of Americans participated in Radio Free Europe's Crusade for Freedom. They signed Freedom Scrolls and Freedom Grams,...

Since 1985, Radio Marti, a Radio Free Europe-type station, has broadcast American news and propaganda in Cuba. Its sister station, TV Marti, deb...

Payola is as old as the music industry and continues today. Contrary to popular belief, the acceptance of payola is legal. (Only the nonreportin...

The crack of the bat on the radio is ingrained in the American mind as baseball takes center stage each summer. Radio has brought the sounds of bas...

The openings and closings to radio programs of all types, from comedies (Blondie, The Jack Benny Program, Lum and Abner) to mysteries (Inner San...

Before television, radio was the sole source of simultaneous mass entertainment in America. The medium served as launching pad for the careers o...

How was it that America would fund its nascent national radio services? Government control and a subscription-like model were both considered! But ...

Vic and Sade, an often absurd situation comedy written by the prolific Paul Rhymer, aired on America's radios from 1932 to 1944 (with short-live...

Top 40 was the preeminent American radio format of the 1950s and 1960s. Although several radio station group owners offered their own versions o...

In July 1923, less than three years after Westinghouse station KDKA signed on, company engineer Frank Conrad began regular simulcasting of its prog...

This collection assembles the best interviews from Steve Cushing's long-running radio program Blues Before Sunrise, the nationally syndicated, awar...

The world of media moves quickly nowhere is this more the case than Singapore, a world-class alpha city that prides itself on being first. This bo...

This history of radio news reporting recounts and assesses the contributions of radio toward keeping America informed since the 1920s. It identi...