Los Angeles loves its oldies, as proven by the September ratings that were released last month. Earning close to its highest rating ever, the all-oldies (sorry, all-classic hits) KRTH (101.1 FM) was ...

KRTH (101.1 FM) got some good news last Thursday (9/27) when the members of the National Association of Broadcasters got together for their annual Marconi Radio Awards dinner gala in Orlando. The ...

My first battery-powered radio — a ten-transistor Realtone — came from my Aunt Ina when I was about seven. I used to think I was ten, but the songs from 1973 would be wrong: I distinctly remember ...

A faithful reader of On Radio calls regularly with the same question: Is there any hope of a Seattle radio station playing music from the first decade of rock 'n' roll? By first decade he means from ...

OK, that’s an exaggeration, but it is an interesting development in the March Nielsen radio ratings for Los Angeles released ...

With Metallica’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” segueing into the Beatles’ rendition of “Rock ‘n’ Roll Music,” Chicago’s WZZN-FM 94.7 christened itself an oldies station at not-so-high noon Monday. So much ...

Milwaukee radio just got a thumb's up, although it might not sound a lot different. Milwaukee Radio Alliance LLC switched the format for its station at WZTI-AM (1290) and 100.3 FM, along with 107.3 FM ...