A call in talk show based around "car mechanics at Boston University’s WBUR." The Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers” were born when host Tom Magliozzi's brother Ray joined the show. Ray was famous for his "verbal sparring" with call ins, listeners loved it. Tom's on air personality was loved as well, his bickering and bantering made for a great show. It would not surprise me if this show had many prank calls, which is why Tom has arguments with the callers.[2]
John A Gambling
John was the host on WOR/New York City's Rambling with Gambling in the morning for six days a week and over thirty years. Originally he was the production assistant for his father and would ocassionally fill in if needed. The show revolved around weather, consumer reports, sportscasts with personality and the first helicopter traffic reports on radio. famous for his upbeat optimistic attitude, John eventually passed the torch onto his son who ran the program after John's retirement. [2]
All Things Considered
A news and information program during the evening drive time, the show premiered on May 3, 1971 on National Public Radio. It is an intelligent discussion of today's events, giving in depth descriptions hard news, feature stories, commentaries, and cultural reviews, linked together by musical stitches designed to evoke an appropriate mood. The first anchor on the show was Susan Stamberg, the show has earned itself Peabody, DuPont and Overseas Press Club awards. [2]
Garrison Keillor
Known for his popular show A Prairie Home Companion first aired on July 6, 1974. A combination of music and his witty nac for writing; Garrison brought listeners into a the town of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, “where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above-average.” The show is still on the air today, being played on over 500 stations with 3 million listeners. [2]
Herb Kent
In the late 1940s Kent was a radio actor for NBC's WMAQ, he left for the largely African American WGES. There he learned African American radio and at WBEE started his own show devoted to a format he called “dusty records.” Kent established himself a large following of African American listeners in Chicago and was a large leader in the civil rights movement, devoting 15 minutes of his show to the “Stay in the Schools” campaign. [2]
Bruce Morrow
Better known by his alias "Cousin Brucie" he started his career in 1959 working for WINS/New York. Then in 1961 he joined the WABC/New York where his career really flourished. Most notably he spent his time at ABC hosting the famous Palisades Park rock concerts, and in 1965 introduced The Beatles at their famous Shea Stadium concert. Since he has worked on the show Crusin America, and has his own two shows on WCBS, Cousin Brucie’s Yearbook and Cousin Brucie’s Saturday Night Oldies Party. [2]
Edward F. McLaughlin
A business executive, he is responsible for the purchase of Watermark, the radio syndication company responsible for Casey Kasem’s American Top 40. First working for ABC as a general sales manager in San Francisco, he moved to New York in 1972 and became President of ABC Radio Networks. He founded EFM talk radio company and was the executive producer behind The Rush Limbaugh Show. [2]
Marian McPartland
Her career started in 1964 on WBAI-FM/New York, a weekly radio program that featured recordings and interviews of guests. Her show was picked up by Pacifica Radio’s West Coast stations and led to the creation of Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz for National Public Radio. It is currently the longest running cultural show on NPR. In 1983 the show received a Peabody award for excellence. Throughout her career Marian has recorded around 100 records, many of which were on her label Halcyon Records; which she started in 1970. [2]
Wolfman Jack
In the mid 1960s he crossed the border to Mexico and joined the powerful 250,000-watt powerhouse XERF-AM. From here he was able to reach most of the Southwestern United States. He combined the grittiness of rock n roll with his love of horror movies to create the howling personality of Wolfman Jack. It wasn't until the 1973 movie American Graffiti that people saw the face that went along with the voice; many had assumed he was African American. [2]
Robert W. Morgan
He was famous for his unique sense of timing and charm, for decades he awoke the Los Angeles residents with his signature “Good Morgan!” He also has the honor of being twice named Billboard’s “Air Personality of the Year, and getting a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. His measure of popularity was an Arbitron 20 shares, he concluded his legendary career at KRTH 101fm. [2]
Gary Owens
In 1961 he hit the big time joining KFWB in Los Angeles. His radio career started while he was still in high-school, reading the news on KORN/Mitchell. Soon after he was a DJ on KMPC, now he can be heard syndicated nightly on over 200 stations nationwide. His comedy and music programs have been syndicated and played on the air for over 30 years, ones such as: Soundtrack of the Sixties, Superfun, and Gary Owens’ Weekend Spectacular. [2]
Norman Pattiz
In 1976 Norman started his own radio station in a small one-room office located on the Westside of Los Angeles. From there his radio syndicated company would grow to be a large scale business. Westwood One is now the largest "radio network, and one of the nation’s largest suppliers of local traffic, news, and sports programming to television stations." He has also helped put radio and television in over 22 countries in the Middle East, working as a chairman on Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). [2]
Chuck Schaden
A collector of famous golden era radio content, Chuck is said to have preserved Radio's Golden Age more than anyone else in America. In May 1970 he had his own show called Those Were The Days. This is where he shared all the vintage content he had collected through the years. His old time radio show was on WLTD, then moved to Chicago in 1975 WNIB. It is said that Chuck has collected on 1,000 radio shows, and his program can still be heard today on Saturday afternoons on WDCB/Glen Ellyn. [2]
Vin Scully
Vin was a famous broadcaster for the Dodgers, he announced for them in both Brooklyn and then Los Angeles. He has described some of the greatest moments in baseball history, Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax. He has announced World Series Championships in: 1959, 1963, 1965, 1981 and 1988. His voice was heard when Sandy Koufax pitched a perfect game in 1965. His vocabulary is said to be incredible as well as being well versed in the English language, in 1976 he was voted “most memorable personality” in Los Angeles Dodger history. [2]
Rush Limbaugh
He started his career in Kansas as a disc jockey and then Pittsburgh. The in 1978 he left radio to work for the Kansas City Royals baseball team, five years later he returned to radio for Kansas City news casts. He started putting his own opinions and views into the news cast which consequently got him fired. He moved to KFBK/Sacramento and then onto WABC/New York where he was a hit, and with the help of Edward F. McLaughlin, went national. Rush is popular for his strong opinionated political views, majority of which are partisan, and controversial. [2]
Charles Osgood
The voice of CBS news during the early seventies, leaving behind the carefully crafted Osgood Files. Before joining CBS in September 1971, he first worked for WCBS Newsradio 88/New York from 1967 to 1971 as a morning anchor and reporter; he was also ar general manager at WHCT/Hartford, Connecticut and program manager at WGMS/Washington, DC. [2]
Orion Samuelson
A farm broadcaster who has been talking to the Midwest since 1960. He spent his first eight years in Wisconsin at WKLJ/Sparta, the moved on to Appleton's WHBY. He was the farm director at WBAY, his show today National Farm Report is syndicated on over 260 stations He can also be found on Samuelson Sez a weekly report where he gives his professional opinion on the agricultural community . [2]
Steve Dalh
Started working at WDAI/Chicago in 1978. He is most famous for "Burned disco records at Comiskey Park during his "Disco Demolition" in 1979 and received national publicity." [2]
Don Imus
He started his career in 1970 and worked for WNBC/NewYork "and while there, he gained national recognition. The format was a mixture of rock and roll records, coarse jokes, and banter with listeners." I used to hear his sports show on WFAN/New York and I remember his controversial racial comment about the women's NCAA basketball team. [2]
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