A much-loved feature of public media is its commitment to bringing the world to audiences. From PBS’ pledges to “take viewers around the world” with shows about international travel, nature and news, ...

It was an odd and stilted moment in 1974 as Mike Jones sat eating lunch with his father, Allen Jones, at the Ingomar Club in Eureka. William B. Smullin was walking by, stopped at their table and ...

When KGFJ went on the air in 1927, the radio station explained that its call letters stood for “Keeping Good Folks Joyful.” Especially good insomniac folks, since it was L.A.’s first 24-hour station.

NEW YORK (AP) — Long before the rise of podcast dramas, listeners worldwide tuned in to the audio-only narratives of radio plays. Tom Stoppard and Arthur Miller were among the many playwrights who ...

The earliest radio stations I remember in Chattanooga were WDOD (1310, CBS) and WAPO (1150, NBC). WDOD hearkened back to the start of commercial broadcasting in the U.S., 1925, but I think WDOD is the ...

When we think of a spark gap radio transmitter, most of us immediately imagine an early twentieth century ship’s radio room or similar. Most of us know these transmitters as the first radio systems, ...

John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou — you know them as John and Ken — are the hugely popular afternoon drive team that helped build KFI (640 AM) into the tale radio juggernaut that it is. They arrived in Los ...