Art Laboe, the pioneering DJ credited with helping end segregation in Southern California, has died. He was 97. Joanna Morones, a spokesperson for Laboe’s production company, Dart Entertainment, ...

K&B. Schwegmann’s. Maison Blanche. As Benny Grunch would say, those places “ain’t dere no more.” But WTIX-FM 94.3 is still around, playing the music that on-air personality “Pal Al” Nassar describes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Racine radio stations WRJN-AM (1400) and FM (99.9/98.1) have gone back to oldies music, after carrying a progressive-talk format for less than a year. WRJN, which dates back to 1926, carried a similar ...

It's not that I don't trust you, Ernest, but—partly to be able to say I was "doing research" while passed out in my car at Denny's—I switched my radio to KWLZ (96.3), the Eagle (106.7) and Charlie (97 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An eastern Virginia oldies station operated by Chesapeake Public Schools for more than 60 years has transferred ownership to WHRO Public Media in Norfolk. Under its new brand, Time Machine Radio ...

Sirius XM Holdings Inc. on Friday has agreed to pay $210 million to settle a case with major record labels over oldies music the company has aired. According to a filing with the Securities and ...