The recent death of Robert C. Allen III, the AM-radio personality born Robert Alianiello, was a reminder of the power of broadcast stations in the transistor radio era. Figures such as Galen Fromme, ...

Longtime disc jockey Jim Ladd, a central figure in the emergence of FM rock radio in Los Angeles, died Saturday after a heart attack. He was 75. Ladd's death was announced Monday by Meg Griffin, an on ...

When George Reccelle was growing up in McKeesport in the 1950s, he listened to legendary Pittsburgh disc jockey George “Porky” Chedwick on the Homestead radio station WAMO and fell in love with the ...

Bobbi Ann Mason is a familiar name, and voice, to radio listeners in the area. The former a.m. personality for K103, she now combines her love of radio with her faith at KHIS. The radio station was ...

In 1959, according to Chris Borden and Bob Sinclair, whether you liked it or not, ‘jocks’ were here to stay. Disc jockeys, that is. As more radio stations switched to a news, talk and music format, ...

Mark grew up in Camden and began his radio career while serving in the U.S. Army in the 1950s. Mark's big break came in 1956 when he was asked to fill in on WHAT-FM in Philly for a disc jockey who ...

PALATINE (AP) — If you're scanning the FM radio dial on a Tuesday night and you suddenly feel relaxed, you might be listening to Mr. Al. "Turn it up and cool it down," says the disc jockey in a voice ...

It’s no surprise that there are many famous radio disc jockeys who came from Detroit. There are so many musical references to the city, and besides that, Detroit has had many sports radio anchors who ...

Dick Biondi, the longtime Chicago radio host who rose in prominence to become one of America's most recognizable disc jockeys, died earlier this week, according to a longtime family friend. Biondi, ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- Pervis Spann, a disc jockey, concert promoter, nightclub owner, and media entrepreneur who became a Chicago icon over six decades, has died. Spann died Monday of complications of ...

For chattering glibly, reading endless commercials and playing records, the average disc jockey makes about $7,000 a year. U.S. radio employs thousands of them (e.g., Los Angeles has 30 disc jockeys).

The disc jockey’s turntable began to look like radio’s wheel of fortune and by last week, two networks had bought a share of the earnings. ABC, which had long closed its ears to the small talk, big ...