Old-school radio lives on with these 5 free apps

Traditional AM / FM radio isn't as popular as it once was, but these apps are keeping the legacy alive and well. You don't ...

‘The Grand Ole Opry,’ a fixture in country music, turns 100

The famous country music venue and radio show “The Grand Ole Opry” turns 100 years old today. Grand Ole Opry host Charlie ...
WBEZ

Meet the 68-year-old ‘bad-boy nerd’ behind this North Side pirate radio station

If you’re driving through the greater Ravenswood area and tune your radio dial to 87.9 FM, you might just enter a sort of radio twilight zone. On tap? Old timey, crime-thriller radio dramas, ...
PC World

I revived this vintage radio and turned it into a desktop music player

The mission was supposed to be simple: Drive to my father-in-law’s house, head into the garage, and grab one of his spare garden hoses to replace the one I accidentally chopped in half with the ...
Los Angeles Daily News

Why KRTH, an 82-year-old radio station, is No. 1 in the ratings

KRTH (101.1 FM) celebrated a birthday last month: the oldies station turned 82 in early August. It was in May of 1940 that the Federal Communications Commission issued the first construction permits ...
Newsday

Howard Stern's old radio home switches to all-news format

For yet more proof that nothing lasts forever in radio, the venerable 92.3 FM — once known as "Disco 92," then "K-Rock" (Howard Stern's terrestrial radio base for 20 years) and more recently "Alt ...