How do on-air journalists learn about expectations for self-presentation? That’s one of the central questions I take up in my new book Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of ...

A much-loved feature of public media is its commitment to bringing the world to audiences. From PBS’ pledges to “take viewers around the world” with shows about international travel, nature and news, ...

It was an odd and stilted moment in 1974 as Mike Jones sat eating lunch with his father, Allen Jones, at the Ingomar Club in Eureka. William B. Smullin was walking by, stopped at their table and ...

The earliest radio stations I remember in Chattanooga were WDOD (1310, CBS) and WAPO (1150, NBC). WDOD hearkened back to the start of commercial broadcasting in the U.S., 1925, but I think WDOD is the ...

Last month we looked at Marconi and his pioneering work in the advancement of wireless communications. In the early days of radio, prior to government regulation, anyone with the knowledge could build ...

When KGFJ went on the air in 1927, the radio station explained that its call letters stood for “Keeping Good Folks Joyful.” Especially good insomniac folks, since it was L.A.’s first 24-hour station.

In 1922, Jesse Koewing was one of the first announcers at WOR in Newark (later New York City). She identified herself on the air with just her initials “J. E. K.” View additional photos in the image ...

When we think of a spark gap radio transmitter, most of us immediately imagine an early twentieth century ship’s radio room or similar. Most of us know these transmitters as the first radio systems, ...

Turn on the radio and youll hear WABC in New York or KROQ in LA. Those different letters arent random—theyre part of a system dating back to the 1920s.

John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou — you know them as John and Ken — are the hugely popular afternoon drive team that helped build KFI (640 AM) into the tale radio juggernaut that it is. They arrived in Los ...