You may stream your music today, but pop and rock radio in South Florida used to rule the airwaves. Local DJs were celebrities in Miami. We woke up to Tanner in the Morning and went to sleep with Mark ...

Pioneering BBC DJ Annie Nightingale — the first (and for 12 years, only) female DJ on the network’s Radio 1 station, whose embrace of multiple genres of music cast a vast influence on the country’s ...

Mike McGregor with one of the remaining bricks. In one of the more unusual radio promotional giveaways of the 1970s, KDEO 910-AM, a San Diego top-40 station that called itself “Radio kay-DEE-oh,” ...

A song that gets extensive radio play is almost guaranteed to be a hit. However, not every song that becomes a hit–even those that go to No. 1–will be remembered in the decades to come. In fact, ...

Of course, any list of leading female country music artists, of any decade, needs to include Dolly Parton. In the 1970s, Parton’s career was on a steady climb after she famously left Porter Wagoner’s ...

AUSTIN, Texas — For nearly three decades, Dave Jarrott was the king of morning radio in Austin. Tens of thousands of listeners stuck in their cars on their way to work or school looked forward to ...

On February 5, 1980, a young DJ named Stella with punk rock tastes first led late-night radio listeners into the realm of “Stray Pop.” Forty-four years later, the show still airs weekly on KXLU 88.9 ...