Racine radio stations WRJN-AM (1400) and FM (99.9/98.1) have gone back to oldies music, after carrying a progressive-talk format for less than a year. WRJN, which dates back to 1926, carried a similar ...

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 ...

Los Angeles loves its oldies, as proven by the September ratings that were released last month. Earning close to its highest rating ever, the all-oldies (sorry, all-classic hits) KRTH (101.1 FM) was ...

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 ...

The former KMZT (1260 AM) made the switch to country oldies on October 1st at noon, after a month of stunting that included 24/7 Taylor Swift, then a weekend of nothing but “Gone Country” by Alan ...

Rock 'n' roll is as foundational to American culture as apple pie and baseball. The music, born in the USA, fed a new generation searching for a different kind of life than the ones their parents led.