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WGTB Schedule (Part 2)
Georgetown University fired station manager Ken Sleeman in December of 1975 trying to purge the liberals, hippies and other radicals from the station. God forbid that gay people exist or that races...
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WGTB Schedule (Part 3)
From Arlington Public LibraryMore recently I found a WGTB program guide from April of 1978. This is [LINK] It's very rare to have such a long series of college radio schedules so well documented. I'd...
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The First Heavy Metal Radio Program
In April of 2010 I wrote the following:"...The modern usage of "metal" in the musicological sense date back to 1968... This leads me to believe that no radio show can claim to have begun before the...
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The History of LGBT Radio (Part 8)
from houstonlgbthistory.orgThe first LGBT radio program in Houston was probably "Come Out Together Through the Hole in the Closet Door." It aired on alternate Sundays at 5:30 PM on 90.1 KPFT back in...
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NOKORODE
I want to open by stating that Nokorode® is still manufactured today. But do not take this as a product endorsement. This is a product more than a century old, so there's a lot of history to cover. In...
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An Intermodulation Primer
Even though you probably have not heard of Intermodulation distortion, you have already heard intermodulation distortion (IMD). But this is something you might not readily recognize in all it's...
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Schnickelfritz
I'd like to open by quoting band leader Jack Norton, who literally wrote the book on Fisher. The 800+ page paperback Cornstars: Rube Music in Swing Time was published in 2020. More here."[Freddie...
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The Smallest Radio Station in Los Angeles
Back in May of 2015 LA Weekly ran the story "L.A.'s Smallest Radio Station, 97.5 KBUU, Broadcasts Out of a Malibu Bedroom." Station founder Hans Laetz figured prominently. Thought probably...
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Dig Up The Roots
It was a decade ago when I first encountered Dig Up The Roots. It was a radio show on 90.3 KFAI which ran from 2004 to 2011. The name or the program was very memorable, and I wrote it in a magazine...
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DJ Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe is known the world over as a Nigerian novelist, poet, and professor. He has written over 30 books, won numerous awards and holds honorary degrees from multiple universities. So it is to...
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Glaskarten
Don't you want to ask what's in the box? We can answer that but let's begin at the beginning. Glaskarten was a goth and industrial radio program that ran from 2000-2005 on KAOS 89.FM. It aired Monday...
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From WRCR to WWRC to WRRC
I found this logo stamped on an old LP. Sadly I lost track of which one. So I can't fully close the loop as to the hear that logo was in use. But we can work out the timeline quite nicely. I found a...
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Radio Robinson Crusoe
Daniel DeFoe was inspired to write Robinson Crusoe was an account of the Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk. Selkirk was marooned on an uninhabited island known as Más a Tierra located in the...
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The Doris Day Radio Show
On The air, the Encyclopedia of Old-Time radio by John Dunning describes the 30-minute program in one sentence: "`Singer Doris day with such guests as Danny Thomas, Kirk Douglas, Jack Smith, and Jack...
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INTERVIEW: Frank Boscoe
Frank Boscoe has done everything. Back in the 1980s he was helping to cook up a indie-rock renaissance in Pittsburgh. He was a DJ on WKPS, and WLVR. He was the Music Director at WRCT, and founded...
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News and Reviews 2020
We are now in year 15, and I stand by my statement from 5 years ago... "it seems both impossible and inadvisable to have gone so far down the rabbit-hole." This blog began in April of 2005. As of this...
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A Student Radio History of Australia
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing a fellow radio researcher, Rafal Alumairy. She is the author of the first Student Radio History of Australia. The book is forthcoming and I am eagerly...
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Radio Toronto Star
CFCA has unfortunately become a notably over-used acronym. It's the Communications Fraud Control Association, the Christian Foundation for Children and Aging, the the Community Fisheries Control...
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DJ Yu Miri
The story varies somewhat by source. Things do not always translate well. Time Magazine refers to Yu Miri's work as a "radio host." Her authors biography on Barnes & Noble's website agrees,...
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Radio Nacional de la R.A.S.D.
In December of 2021 The US legally recognized Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara. This was in exchange for Morocco's recognition of Israel. Two changes which only seems to have served to increase...
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