Credited with shaping presidential elections and blamed for creating a climate of intolerance, talk radio rose to prominence in the 1990s by offering Americans a free, unfiltered, and often national forum. Whether the issue was a pushy boss, a hapless...

Talk Radio can refer to: Talk Radio UK, a former national UK talk station which is to be relaunched the new digital radio licence by the 4 Digital Group. Talk radio, a call-in discussion format for radio broadcasts. Talk Radio (play), a 1987 play...

TALK OF THE TOWN IF SOME present-day Tocqueville were planning a sequel to Democracy in America, he would be well advised to tune in to talk radio. He would find there the lively interchange of ideas that the learned Frenchman found so...

Michael Keith, a lecturer in communications at Boston University, has taken a major step in leading publishers out of "the golden age of radio" and into studies of the medium in its current form with his new book "Talking Radio--An Oral History of...

Ah, the narcissism of loudly sounding off in public.These days, we have the options of Web sites, blogs and chat rooms, but back in 1987 the dominant place to proclaim outrageous opinion was radio.Those airwaves are the setting for Eric Bogosian's "Talk Radio," his acerbic...

Former Massachusetts House Speaker Thomas Finneran started a new career as a radio talk show host Monday, just five weeks after he pleaded guilty to federal charges.Finneran promised to discuss everything from Middle East politics to Anna Nicole Smith."This show is not going to be...