Ed McKenzie, the Detroit disc jockey known as Jack the Bellboy, was the topic of a recent blog post (click…
When you write blog posts about media, some people think you know everything....or others may think you know nothing. Over…
Recently I revisited an interesting story about a radio deejay, a Pacific Northwest band, and that band's appearance on the…
For a few days now, the recent KJR Golden Years blog post has been shared on facebook by readers of…
Back in the sixties, kids and young at heart adults loved KJR radio. Only a few aspiring teens of the…
Here is a Seattle radio oldie but a goodie. I have been working with former KJR jock, Gary Shannon, on…
Just the other day I was listening to an old aircheck from the Pacific Northwest. This was in conjunction with…
In a previous article about disc jockey Terry Knight, I referenced his job as Jack the Bellboy at radio station…
Everybody can name a singing cowboy, but how about a singing deejay? Willie Nelson is among the most successful of…
In my corner of the Pacific Northwest we had a horrible windstorm on Thursday. My home power was out from…
Canadian radio stations with powerful signals that reach into the United States can be highly competitive with American radio. Over…
For the past 20 years, Hot Ticket Chuck McKay’s February 1975 so-called meltdown aircheck (click here to listen) at CKLW-AM…
North of the border, up Canada way, there is a disc jockey who was a pioneer of rock ‘n’ roll…
In the early '70s, I worked in the KIXI, Seattle newsroom. Back then, the AM and FM stations simulcast all…
KISN was a legendary West Coast radio station -- one of the Star Broadcasting Stations -- owned and operated by…
I am writing about a popular radio hit song that I always liked. As a middle school student in Bellingham,…
There was a lot of interest in the rather lengthy recent story on longtime Seattle-Tacoma area TV news anchor Jim…
Jim Harriott (real name William James Harriott) is best known for his time as a TV news anchor, with the…
Featured today are early '70s jock shout-out jingles from Chicago's legendary WLS-AM. I found the files stored on my computer,…
In the 1990s, I began collecting rare World War II radio news broadcasts. My expectation was that many such recordings…