It was at KUTY, in Palmdale, California, where Don Imus began his on-air character Billy Sol Hargus, a radio evangelist named and inspired by preacher Billy James Hargis. The bit…
In early 1983, longtime Rock stalwart, 95.5 WPLJ, began a slow transition from Album Oriented Rock station to a Top 40/Contemporary Hit Radio format. When word started spreading around the…
Ed Baer spent more than a 50 years on New York area stations, including as a “Good Guy” on WMCA, (Dan Ingram helped Ed land the WMCA gig!) followed by…
“It’s your engineer, Jocko, your Ace from Outer Space, way up here in the stratosphere! Back on the scene with the record machine, sayin’ oop-pop-a-doo and how do you do?”…
Even if you think you've never heard Jean Shepherd, you have! If you have ever seen the movie, "A Christmas Story," you've heard Jean Shepherd! Jean wrote the story, and…
R&B formatted WWRL New York featured some very big names pass through it's doors from 1964 to 1982: Reggie Lavong, Hal Jackson, Hank Spann, Bobby Jay,…
Charlie Greer was one of WABC's "All-Americans". Branded "Channel 77", this was the era when WABC became the dominant Top 40 station, and became legendary with its connection to The Beatles!