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 ...
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 his cheery baritone and enthusiasm for old rock, R&B, doo-wop and soul, Art Laboe was a fixture of West Coast radio for 79 years. The gregarious Los Angeles disc jockey was considered as much a ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Art Laboe, the pioneering radio DJ credited with helping end segregation in Southern California, has died. He was 97. Laboe died Friday night after catching pneumonia, said ...
KJ Mac, who hosts mornings at Kool Oldies, will keep playing music from the 1950s and 1960s — but at 101.5 FM. Courtesy Kool Oldies Kool Oldies isn’t being sent to a retirement home after all. Boise’s ...
Some millennials and members of Generation X on TikTok are feeling angst after a debate about whether Nirvana is classified as an "oldie" broke out on the app. That question has launched TikTok into a ...
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 ...