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 ...

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, ...

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, ...