During the 1930s, the country enjoyed the emergence of a range of distinctly American musical sounds. The radio introduced Americans to more types of music than they had ever heard before. Radio continued to do so when the Great Depression...

The beginning of regular commercially licensed sound broadcasting in the United States in 1920 ended the print monopoly over the media and opened the doors to the more immediate and pervasive electronic media. By 1928, the United States had three...

In an effort to boost their ratings, DC-area radio station Hot 99.5's morning show DJs announced that they were going to attach Melissa Etheridge tickets to the back of morning woman DJ (whose on-air alias is "Becky Buttrub") and have her "chased by...

Craig, Douglas B. Fireside Politics: Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920-1940. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 362 pp. $45. Radio could claim to be the first mass acculturating medium. If so, whose culture are we and how did it...

A new technology unveiled Tuesday would show what's being said on the radio using a receiver with a screen that would scroll text much like closed captions roll by on TV.No manufacturer has yet committed to bring the technology to market. It is backed by...