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BLOOMINGTON - In some places, it isn't unusual to scan the radio dial and hear Latin music and disc jockeys sharing the news, en espanol, but Central Illinois hasn't been ...
For chattering glibly, reading endless commercials and playing records, the average disc jockey makes about $7,000 a year. U.S. radio employs thousands of them (e.g., Los Angeles has 30 disc ...
Longtime disc jockey Jim Ladd, a central figure in the emergence of FM rock radio in Los Angeles, died Saturday after a heart attack. He was 75. Ladd's death was announced Monday by Meg Griffin ...
After 17 years of Hollywood typecasting as a know-it-all butler, British-born Cinemactor Arthur Treacher, 55, this week tried being a radio disc jockey. In a once-a-week broadcast over New York ...
Randall Beach is a former columnist and reporter for the New Haven Register. His essays are at randallbeach.substack.com. His latest book is Connecticut Characters: Profiles of Rascals and Renegades, ...
Jerry Blavat, a legendary Philadelphia disc jockey and radio pioneer, has died at age 82, according to multiple reports. “The Geator with the Heater” and “The Boss with the Hot Sauce ...
Radio has changed much in the nearly 60 years since Martin Ashley began his career, and now at age 75 he’s finally retiring. Over the course of those years he was an engineer, air talent and ...