In 1958, John Zacherle arrived in New York city, and launched his scary alter-ego, Zacherly on WABC-TV. Dick Clark nick-named him "The Cool Ghoul."He became a…
In 1946, Bob Elliott was a disc jockey on Boston's WHDH, and Ray Goulding a newscaster on the same station. They would often visit with each other while on the…
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…