Classic Jingles — Echoes of Excellence: WOMC’s TM Productions Jingles
Preserving the Sound Of a Detroit FM Institution for Future Generations of Radio Enthusiasts
There are certain radio stations whose identit [...]
Shotgun Tom Kelly: A Lifetime of Playing the Hits—and Making Radio Fun
Before the ranger hat, the Emmy Awards, the Hollywood Walk of Fame star, and induction into the Radio Hall of Fame there was a boy on a bicycle, peeri [...]
Jerry Goodwin: From Keener 13 to the Duke of Madness
Before he became Detroit’s Jerry Goodwin or Boston’s “Duke of Madness,” he was a young Air Force musician staring into a radio control room and recogn [...]
Dick Osgood: A Life Channeled Through the Airwaves — And Carried Forward in Print
A Broadcast Life That Turned One Man’s Microphone Into a City’s Memory
Dick Osgood’s life in broadcasting began long before Detroit listeners ever [...]
Mike Gormley: Backstage at Six Decades of Music History
At 14, Mike Gormley talked his way backstage to interview Brenda Lee. He had no publication waiting for the story and, by his own admission, probably [...]
Gil Gross: A Life in Radio, One Good Story at a Time
Gil Gross has delivered the news on some of America’s best-known stations, anchored network coverage of historic events, and stepped behind the mi [...]
Ron Jacobs: The Programmer Who Rewired American Top 40 Radio
A Visionary Whose Format Revolution Shaped the Sound of A Nation
In the long arc of American broadcasting, few figures reshaped the medium as profo [...]
Rep. Crank’s Clarion Call: Why America Cannot Afford to Lose AM Radio Now
Crank’s Message is Simple: Call Your Senator Now—Before the Country Loses its Most Reliable Signal
AM radio has always been the signal America trus [...]
All Things Considered: The Evening Broadcast That Became an American Institution
A Half‑Century of Journalism, Humanity, and the Quiet Power of a Trusted Voice
For more than half a century, All Things Considered has been the eve [...]
September 21, 1968: The Jeannie C. Riley Single That Captivated a Changing Nation
On this day in 1968, a young Texas singer delivered a sharp, witty takedown of small‑town hypocrisy—and in the process became the first woman to conqu [...]
The Visionary Who Rewired American Radio: Fred Jacobs’ Enduring Influence
The Visionary Who Rewired American Radio: Fred Jacobs’ Enduring Influence from Detroit’s rock‑driven airwaves to the halls of national broadcasting po [...]
Ed Sullivan Before the Spotlight: The Forgotten Radio Years That Built an American Icon
From Club 21 to CBS: The Early Years of a Broadcasting Icon
Ed Sullivan’s rise to national prominence is usually told as a television story — a tal [...]
When Radio Told America What Was Happening on September 11
There are moments in history when a medium becomes more than entertainment. It becomes a lifeline.
September 11, 2001 was one of those moments.
As A [...]
The Soft Icons of Pop Music: Bacharach & David’s Imprint on Top 40 Radio
Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote the soundtrack of American longing. Across the 1960s and early 1970s, their partnership shaped a body of work that [...]
Charlie O’Brien: Keeping the BIG 8 CKLW Alive
From a college dare to CKLW, Charlie O’Brien became part of one of radio’s legendary stations — and decades later found a new way to make sure its sou [...]