Behind the world’s heaviest metal door, tucked in a corner of John J. Louis Hall, students gather to broadcast music to the Evanston area over student-run radio station WNUR. Groups of two-to-five ...

Creative destruction is a process where innovative, superior products and services, often driven by new firms, render older, established technologies and businesses obsolete. Coined by Joseph ...

The death of iconic WXRT-FM disc jockey Lin Brehmer not only left a hole in Chicago’s once mighty rock radio landscape, it’s a further reminder of the slow fade of the age when big personalities ...

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 white and Black ...

When P.J. Butta found out his job was being eliminated after 12 years at KDAY (93.5 FM), the midday DJ says it was a surprise — and it wasn’t. “Meaning that, it’s a surprise that I didn’t know it was ...

When radio stations started eliminating overnight personalities, the excuse given was that it didn’t matter all that much. There are fewer listeners and the ratings don’t really cover the time between ...