Details are sketchy at this point, but friends of Russ O’Hara have reported that the former Los Angeles-area DJ has passed away. Best known for his work at the original KRLA (now KWVE, 1110 AM) from ...

CLEVELAND—Audio technology provider Telos Alliance has promoted Jim Armstrong to senior director of sales, U.S. and Canada. A 20-year Telos veteran, Armstrong had most recently been the company’s ...

From 1981 through his retirement in December 2007, he dominated afternoon drive on one of the world’s most listened-to AM radio stations, creating a cast of unique and oftentimes hilarious characters ...

A “public celebration of life will be planned in Cincinnati at a later date” for Gary Burbank, the beloved WLW-AM personality who died Aug. 28 at age 84. The obituary was posted Tuesday by a Highlands ...

Gary Burbank, best known for his run on Cincinnati’s 700 WLW, where he ruled the afternoon drive from 1981 until his retirement in December 2007, has died. Over his career, Burbank created a cast of ...

Some great news arrived in my inbox last week: ReelRadio is back! Truly, it never went away, as dedicated volunteers held the original site together at reelradio.com after creator and curator Richard ...

I’m a few weeks late, but it’s still worth a mention: May 2025 is the “official” 60th anniversary of the launch of “Boss Radio” KHJ (930 AM), the station credited with revolutionizing top-40 radio ...

World War I is arguably the most important war in human history. The world we live in today is largely shaped by the First World War, and yet most people know much less about it than they do about ...

As broadcast engineers it often feels like our lives are dictated by time. This is especially true when it comes to computerized audio playout systems. Frequent contributor Dan Slentz writes that in ...

Learn a bit about Detroit’s radio history by taking a closer look at this 1957 photo of Robin Seymour. Photograph courtesy of the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne ...

The mid-1970s was a strange time for radio. FM still had not become the dominant band, but it was making inroads and many AM stations didn’t know how to react. This led to some grave mistakes. Think ...