Starting with 1955’s “Maybellene,” his first single and a No. 5 hit on the Billboard charts, Chuck Berry helped revolutionize music. For the next few years, Berry sent hit after hit up the charts in ...

My first battery-powered radio — a ten-transistor Realtone — came from my Aunt Ina when I was about seven. I used to think I was ten, but the songs from 1973 would be wrong: I distinctly remember ...

When Scott Shannon's nationally syndicated True Oldies Channel launched a decade ago, it was for listeners who weren't happy with the incursion of the early '70s (or beyond) into their oldies format… ...

A faithful reader of On Radio calls regularly with the same question: Is there any hope of a Seattle radio station playing music from the first decade of rock 'n' roll? By first decade he means from ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Art Laboe, the pioneering ...

With Metallica’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” segueing into the Beatles’ rendition of “Rock ‘n’ Roll Music,” Chicago’s WZZN-FM 94.7 christened itself an oldies station at not-so-high noon Monday. So much ...

According to the latest Nielsen ratings for metro Los Angeles released last week, oldies-formatted KRTH (101.1 FM) dominated the city, with a 6.4 share of the audience of listeners aged six and over, ...

Ever since The Fan, a local sports-talk station, abandoned its longtime dial spot, 950 AM, in favor of 104.3 FM back in March, there’s been mucho speculation about what format would eventually beam ...