In 1958, 11-year-old Carl Phillips entered radio station WAKY's essay contest and won an all-expense-paid trip to the moon on March 15, 1987.
Lake Wobegon, Minn., will materialize at Loyola Marymount University during the final broadcast of Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" over KUSC-FM (91.5) on June 13.
Listeners to radio station KWNK (670) this summer will wake up to the sound of Radio Moscow, and
The Vietnam War film "Platoon" is an early favorite to win this year's Academy Award for best picture, says Las Vegas oddsmaker Lenny Del Genio of the Frontier Hotel.
Wink Martindale ended 36 years in radio with an "amicable" parting from KMPC last week, he told The Times on Monday.
A free-lance writer and teacher working on an unauthorized biography of "Lake Wobegon Days" author Garrison Keillor says he's having problems gathering material.
Even though they've never heard of an Arbitron, Africans from Dakar to Dar es Salaam are listening to their radios as never before--there are now more than 42 million radios among Black Africa's 392 million people.
The Federal Communications Commission, in an effort to expand local radio programming for rural
David Perry, Jim Ladd and Jack Snyder--three former disc jockeys for the defunct rock station KMET--have filed suits in Los Angeles Superior Court against the station's owners and operators, claiming they were induced to sign employment contracts by station officials who knew at the time they would be fired.
Brown University sophomore Amy Carter faces possible suspension from the school for protesting apartheid at a demonstration, but thanks to two Boston dee-jays, she'll be able to drive off campus.
Radio celebrities Gary Owens and Al Lohman will be together again for the first time beginning June 1 when KFI-AM (640) launches "L.A.'
The release of the "Beverly Hills Cop II" sound-track LP is causing a problem for radio program
The Louisiana Hayride, the live radio broadcast showcase that helped launch the careers of country
Randy Miller, a KSDO-FM in San Diego disc jockey who asked listeners to call him with jokes about the Chinese, is being called racist by some listeners.
A Waterbury, Conn., radio talk show host says he had a frequent caller arrested because "4 1/2
The Federal Communications Commission has warned a New York radio station against broadcasting its
Francisco radio station KGO by black talk-show host Noah Griffin.
Hell hath no fury like a fan disappointed, as Mickey Rooney found out--forcefully--when he sat in for KABC radio's Michael Jackson on Wednesday morning.
You can't always get what you want . . . but Belleville, Ill., disc jockey Angela Gabriel tried for some time--about 2 1/2 hours.
Veteran "All Things Considered" host Noah Adams has been selected to replace Garrison Keillor, who is leaving "A Prairie Home Companion" on June 13.