KRTH (101.1 FM) got some good news last Thursday (9/27) when the members of the National Association of Broadcasters got together for their annual Marconi Radio Awards dinner gala in Orlando. The ...

Starting with 1955’s “Maybellene,” his first single and a No. 5 hit on the Billboard charts, Chuck Berry helped revolutionize music. For the next few years, Berry sent hit after hit up the charts in ...

The revamping of a flagging Clear Channel Radio oldies station will result in Memphis' first FM contemporary black gospel offering and consequently the transition from gospel to talk radio programming ...

A faithful reader of On Radio calls regularly with the same question: Is there any hope of a Seattle radio station playing music from the first decade of rock 'n' roll? By first decade he means from ...

Fans still outraged that WCBS-FM (101. 1) dumped oldies for the younger-targeted Jack format yesterday announced plans for a protest rally outside the station next Tuesday. Around the same time, CEO ...

Two of the iHeartRadio stations in the market, WMIL-FM and WRIT-FM, have rolled with its country and oldies formats for some time. They were awarded with the No. 1 local ratings spot for May. It is no ...

Changes are coming to LA Oldies K-Surf (1260 AM; 105.1HD2) – at least to the AM portion of the simulcast. Beginning Friday, Nov. 13th at 8 p.m., the station will feature Music ’Til Dawn, which will ...

Wisconsin network Civic Media is buying the Fonz MKE to extend its local news and hits format throughout southeastern Wisconsin.

My first battery-powered radio — a ten-transistor Realtone — came from my Aunt Ina when I was about seven. I used to think I was ten, but the songs from 1973 would be wrong: I distinctly remember ...

Ever since The Fan, a local sports-talk station, abandoned its longtime dial spot, 950 AM, in favor of 104.3 FM back in March, there’s been mucho speculation about what format would eventually beam ...

With all the bad news coming out of the radio industry due primarily to the problems created by the huge corporations that control so many stations, it is often easy to lose sight of the stations that ...