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 ...

Conductors Leopold Stokowski and Arthur Fiedler, who have already tried being radio disc jockeys, were joined this week by Britain’s loquacious Sir Thomas Beecham. New York City’s WQXR began a ...

Jim Ladd, a longtime FM disc jockey in Los Angeles and host of SiriusXM’s “Deep Tracks” classic rock channel, died Saturday. He was 75. >> Read more trending news ...

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 ...

The Disc Jockey School of Modern Radio Technique set up shop in the old KTKT building at 500 West Elm. St. The pair spent about $8,000 to set up the school to closely resemble an operating station.

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 ...

David Partin won $100 worth of gas and agreed to let local radio disc jockeys Richard Dixon and J. Willoughby name his unborn son. It was a contest for the most interesting item to trade the radio ...

Maurice “Hot Rod” Hulbert Jr., a radio disc jockey, in 1974. Radio was regional and signals did not travel far. Baltimore listeners could pick up, if faintly, Annapolis’ beloved Black disc ...

Jacques Kelly recently remembered the ’50s and ’60s when local radio disc jockeys such as Johnny Dark and Maurice “Hot Rod” Hulbert were celebrities, but at first playing predominantly ...

Bobbi Ann Mason is a familiar name, and voice, to radio listeners in the area. The former a.m. personality for K103, she now combines her love of radio with her faith at KHIS. The radio station ...