History

The National Radio Hall of Fame and Museum, located in the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, Illinois, is a museum dedicated to recognizing those who have contributed to the development of the radio medium throughout its history in the United States. The Museum of Broadcast Communications is located in Chicago, Illinois. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... The Louvre Museum in Paris, one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. ...

Radio programs as well as individuals are eligible for induction. Inductees to the museum are nominated by the National Radio Hall of Fame & Museum Steering Committee. The committee is appointed by the President of the Museum of Broadcast Communications, and is composed of radio executives, academicians, trade journalists, and others interested in radio's history. The Steering Committee recommends nominations in the following categories:

• Pioneer Network or Syndicated
• Active Network or Syndicated
• Pioneer Local or Regional
• Active Local or Regional

A ballot listing the nominees is sent out every May to all Museum of Broadcast Communications members for voting. Winners are announced at the annual August meeting. As of 2005 more than 130 individuals and programs inductees have been selected. In the entertainment and news industries, syndication is a method of making content available to a range of outlets simultaneously. ...

Inductees

Individuals

Abbott and Costello is the name of a legendary American comedy duo made up of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. ... A word out of place will spoil the whole joke: Humourist Goodman Ace, from the inside jacket flap of his 1970 collection of scripts from his classic radio show, Ladies and Gentlemen-Easy Aces. ... He has eyes like Venetian blinds and a tongue like an adder — radio/television critic John Crosby about humourist Fred Allen, portrayed here by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. ... Mel Allen (February 14, 1913 - June 16, 1996) was an American sportscaster. ... Dominic Felix Ameche (May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was an American actor. ... Eddie Anderson (September 18, 1905 - February 28, 1977), often known as Eddie Rochester Anderson, was a black American comic actor who became famous playing Rochester van Jones (usually known simply as Rochester), the valet to Jack Bennys eponymous title character on the long-running radio and television series Born... Eve Arden (April 30, 1908 – November 12, 1990) was an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy--winning American actress, who established a lengthy career as a supporting and character actor but was best remembered for playing a sardonically engaging high school teacher in the radio and television classic Our Miss Brooks. ... Edwin Howard Armstrong Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 - March 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. ... Gene Autry. ... Walter Lanier Red Barber (February 17, 1908 - October 22, 1992) was an American sportscaster. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... It has been suggested that The Jack Benny Program be merged into this article or section. ... Gertrude Berg (born October 3, 1899; died September 14, 1966) was a star of old-time radio and television. ... Sam Bermans caricature of Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen for 1947 NBC promotion book Edgar John Bergen (February 16, 1903 – September 30, 1978) was an American actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquist. ... Martin Block (1901-1967) was the first radio disc jockey to become a star in his own right. ... Dick Biondi (born 1933, Endicott, New York, USA) is a Radio Hall of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Top 40 and Oldies disc jockey. ... Jim Bohannon is a broadcaster who has worked in both television and radio. ... Amar Bose Amar Gopal Bose (born 1929) is the chairman and founder of Bose Corporation. ... Marty Brennaman (born Franchester Martin Brennaman July 28, 1942 in Portsmouth, Virginia), is an American sportscaster, known primarily as the longtime radio voice of Major League Baseballs Cincinnati Reds. ... Jack Brickhouse (January 24, 1916 - August 6, 1998) was an American sports broadcast announcer. ... John Francis Jack Buck (August 21, 1924 – June 18, 2002), born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, was an American sportscaster, best known for his work announcing Major League Baseball games of the St. ... Eddie Cantor in the 1920s Eddie Cantor (January 31, 1892 - October 10, 1964) was a comedian, singer, actor, songwriter, and one of the most popular entertainers in the United States of America in the early and middle 20th century. ... Harry Caray memorialized in a statue near Wrigley Field in Chicago. ... For other persons named Dick Clark, see Dick Clark (disambiguation). ... Ann Compton Ann Compton is an American news reporter. ... Conrad in Cannon William Conrad (September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994), born William Cann, was an American actor and narrator in radio, film and television noted for his gifted use of a marvelous baritone voice, as well as for his sizable girth. ... Myron Cope (born January 23, 1929 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), whose given name is Myron Sydney Kopelman, was a color commentator for the Pittsburgh Steelers radio broadcasts for 35 years. ... Charles James Correll (February 2, 1890 _ September 26, 1972) was a USA radio comedian, best known for his work on the Amos & Andy show with Freeman Gosden (see). ... Norman Corwin is an American writer, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing. ... Harry Lillis Bing Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death in 1977. ... Rigdon Ogden Rick Dees III (born March 14, 1950 in Jacksonville, Florida) is a radio disc jockey who currently lives in the San Fernando Valley community of Toluca Lake in Los Angeles, California, USA. Dees is best known for his syndicated radio show Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 and for... Lee De Forest Lee De Forest, (August 26, 1873 - June 30, 1961), was an American inventor with over 300 patents to his name. ... Tommy Dorsey, in a publicity shot for The Big Apple Tommy Dorsey (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was a jazz trombonist and bandleader in the Big Band era. ... Legendary KGO Radio program director, who brought KGO rating from non-existent to the top 5 with its unique news/talk format. ... Don Dunphy (July 5, 1908 - July 22, 1998) was a radio sports announcer specializing in boxing broadcasts. ... Bob Edwards Robert Alan Edwards (born May 16, 1947 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American radio broadcaster. ... Douglas Edwards (born July 14, 1917 — October 13, 1990) was Americas first network news television anchor, anchoring the CBS Evening News broadcast from 1948-1962. ... Ralph Livingstone Edwards (January 13, 1913 – November 16, 2005) was a television host and producer. ... Fred Foy was an American actor and voice specialist. ... Stanley Victor Freberg (born August 7, 1926 in Los Angeles) is a U.S. voice actor, comedian and advertising creative. ... Alan Freed (December 15, 1921 – January 20, 1965), also known as Moondog, was an American disc-jockey (DJ) who became internationally known for promoting African-American Rhythm and Blues (R&B) music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of Rock and Roll. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Arnie Ginsburg was a well-known disc jockey in the Boston radio market from the mid 1950s until the 1970s. ... Joseph Christopher Glenn (March 23, 1938 – October 17, 2006) was an American radio and television news journalist who worked in broadcasting for over 45 years and spent the final 35 years of his career at CBS, retiring in 2006 at the age of 68. ... Arthur Morton Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer. ... Leonard H. Goldenson (December 7, 1905 - December 27, 1999) was the first president of ABC. In 1974, Mr. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Gale Gordon (February 20, 1906 – June 30, 1995) was an American character actor. ... Freeman Fisher Gozzie Gosden (May 5, 1899 - December 10, 1982) was a USA radio comedian, and pioneer in the development of the situation comedy form. ... Karl Haas (1913 - February 6, 2005) was a classical music radio show host. ... Milo Hamilton (born September 2, 1927 in Fairfield, Iowa) has been a Major League Baseball announcer for a number of decades, with a variety of teams. ... For the Stuckist artist, see Paul Harvey (artist). ... Ernie Harwell William Earnest Ernie Harwell (born January 25, 1918 in Washington, Georgia) is a former American sportscaster, known for his long career calling play-by-play of Major League Baseball games. ... Bob Hope, KBE (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003), born Leslie Townes Hope, was an English-Born American entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, in movies, and in performing tours for U.S. Military personnel, well known for his good natured humor and career longevity. ... John Donald Imus, Jr. ... Hal Jackson (born November 3, 1915) is an American disk jockey and radio personality who broke a number of color barriers in American radio broadcasting. ... Tom Joyner (born 1949) is an African-American talk radio host. ... Melvin Alan Mel Karmazin, a native New Yorker, (born August 24, 1943)[1] is an executive who has held several top jobs in the broadcasting industry and is currently CEO of Sirius Satellite Radio. ... Casey Kasem (born Kemal Amin Kasem on April 27, 1932, in Detroit, Michigan of Palestinian/Lebanese heritage) is an American radio personality and voice actor. ... Murray Kaufman, professionally known as Murray the K, was a famous and influential rock and roll disc jockey. ... Garrison Keillor (born Gary Edward Keillor on August 7, 1942) is an American author, humorist, columnist, musician, satirist, and radio personality. ... Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger on November 19, 1933) is an award-winning American broadcaster. ... Kay Kyser (June 18, 1905, Rocky Mount, North Carolina - July 24, 1985) was a famous bandleader and one of the first to become a radio celebrity. ... Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (born January 12, 1951) is an American radio talk show host. ... Larry Lujack (born June 6, 1940), a Top 40 Music radio disc jockey who was a precursor to the shock jocks of the 1990s, is known for his world-weary sarcastic style, Klunk letter of the day, and darkly humorous Animal Stories. ... Guglielmo Marchese Marconi, GCVO (25 April 1874-20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his development of a practical radiotelegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of numerous affiliated companies worldwide. ... Julius Henry Marx, known as Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977), was an American comedian, working both with his siblings, the Marx Brothers, and on his own. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... Gordon Barton McLendon (born June 8, 1921 in Paris, Texas; died September 14, 1986) is widely credited for perfecting, with great commercial success, the Top 40 radio format during the 1950s and 1960s which was first invented by Todd Storz. ... Robert W. Morgan entertained the Los Angeles radio audience for over three decades. ... Bruce Morrow (born October 13, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American radio disc jockey, although he prefers to be called a radio personality, known to generations of New York metropolitan area listeners as Cousin Brucie. ... April 8, 1956: CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow talking to reporters during a stop in Wiesbaden, Germany. ... Charles Osgood For the American psychologist see Charles E. Osgood. ... Gary Owens (born Gary Altman on May 10, 1936) is a disc jockey and voice actor born in Mitchell, South Dakota. ... William S. Paley (September 28, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois – October 26, 1990 in New York, New York) was the chief executive who built CBS from a small radio network to the dominant radio and television network operation in America. ... Virginia Payne (December 7, 1904 - February 10, 1977) was an American radio actress, best known for her 27-year role as Ma Perkins. ... Dick Purtan is the morning radio show host on WOMC-FM serving the Detroit, Michigan USA radio market. ... James H. Quello James Henry Quello (born April 21, 1914) was a Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and, in 1993, served as the Acting Chairman of the Commission. ... David Sarnoff (February 27, 1891–December 12, 1971) led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in various capacities shortly after its founding in 1919 to his retirement in 1970. ... Chuck Schaden, born June 29, 1934, is a Chicago-area broadcaster and historian who has hosted the program Those Were the Days on local radio since 1970. ... Vin Scully publicity photo, © Los Angeles Dodgers Vincent Edward Vin Scully (born November 29, 1927 in The Bronx, New York) is an American sportscaster, known primarily as the play-by-play voice of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers baseball teams. ... Michael Scott Shannon is a legendary radio disk jockey and the official voice of the Sean Hannity Show. ... Jean Shepherd posed as Frederick R. Ewing on the back cover of Ballantines I, Libertine (1956). ... Richard Bernard Red Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997) was an American comedian whose greatest impact — in a career which began as a teen circus clown and graduated to vaudeville, Broadway, MGM films, and radio — began when he reached television stardom with The Red Skelton Show (NBC, 1951–1952... Rick Sklar was the genius behind Musicradio WABC (AM) radio. ... Kate Smith on the cover of a posthumous 1991 collection 16 Most Requested Songs Kathryn Elizabeth Smith (May 1, 1907 – June 17, 1986) was a Washington, D.C.-born singer best known for her rendition of Irving Berlins God Bless America. She greeted audiences with Hello, everybody! and signed... Susan Stamberg (born 7 September 1938 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American radio journalist, currently a Special Correspondent for National Public Radio and guest host for Weekend Edition Saturday. ... Frank Nicholas Stanton (March 20, 1908 – December 24, 2006) served as the president of CBS between 1946 and 1971 and then vice chairman until 1973. ... Bill Stern (July 1, 1907-November 19, 1971), was a radio sports announcer, actor and director from Rochester, New York. ... Fran Striker (1903 – September 4, 1962) was an American writer for radio and comics, best known for his contributions to The Lone Ranger. ... Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, broadcaster, and traveller best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous. ... Robert George Uecker ((IPA pronunciation: [], a homophone of the card game Euchre)(born January 26, 1935 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American former Major League Baseball player, later an award-winning sportscaster, comedian and actor. ... George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American theatre, screenwriter and film producer and director, and a theatre, radio and film actor. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Jerry Williams (born November 1, 1923) was a football player coach who served as head coach of two Canadian Football League teams, as well as the National Football Leagues Philadelphia Eagles. ... Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972), an American newspaper and radio commentator, invented the gossip column at the New York Evening Graphic. ... Robert Weston (Bob) Smith (21 January 1938 – 1 July 1995) became world famous in the 1960s and 1970s as a disc jockey using the stage name of Wolfman Jack. ...

Programs

• All Things Considered
• Amos 'n Andy
• Bob and Ray
• Burns and Allen
• Can You Top This?
• Car Talk
• CBS Radio Mystery Theater
• CBS World News Roundup
• Charlie McCarthy Show
• Don McNeill's Breakfast Club
• Easy Aces
• Fibber McGee and Molly
• The Goldbergs
• Grand Ole Opry
• Inner Sanctum Mysteries
• Jack Armstrong
• Little Orphan Annie
• Lone Ranger
• Lux Radio Theatre
• Ma Perkins
• March of Time
• Mercury Theater on the Air
• One Man's Family
• The Romance of Helen Trent
• The Shadow
• Take It or Leave It
• You Bet Your Life
• Your Hit Parade

All Things Considered, sometimes abbreviated ATC, is a news radio program in the United States, broadcast on the National Public Radio network. ... Amos & Andy (also rendered as Amos n Andy) was a situation comedy popular in the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s. ... Bob and Ray Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding were an American comedy duo that began in radio in 1946 with a daily 15-minute show titled Matinee With Bob and Ray. ... George Burns & Gracie Allen Burns and Allen were an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen. ... Can You Top This? was a popular radio series in which comedians told jokes. ... Car Talk is a radio talk show broadcast weekly on National Public Radio stations throughout the United States and elsewhere. ... The CBS Radio Mystery Theater logo The CBS Radio Mystery Theater (or CBSRMT) was an ambitious and sustained attempt in the 1970s to revive the great drama of old-time radio. ... The CBS World News Roundup is a radio newscast that airs weekday mornings and evenings on the CBS Radio Network. ... Goodman and Jane Ace during a 1939 Easy Aces rehearsal. ... Jim and Marian Jordan were featured in 1947 NBC promotional art by Sam Berman. ... 1931 book by Gertrude Berg with an introduction by Eddie Cantor The Goldbergs was a comedy-drama broadcast from 1929 to 1946 on American radio and later seen as a television situation comedy (1949-56). ... The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly Saturday night country music radio program broadcast live on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, and televised on Great American Country network. ... Raymond Edward Johnson Inner Sanctum Mysteries was a popular old-time radio program that aired from January 7, 1941 to October 5, 1952. ... Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy was a radio drama program originated at WBBM, Chicago on July 31, 1933. ... Cover of Cupples & Leon strip collection (1933) Little Orphan Annie is a full page (later half page or tab) American comic strip, created by Harold Gray (1894-1968), that first appeared on August 5, 1924. ... The Lone Ranger was an early, long-running radio and television show based on characters created by George W. Trendle of Detroit, Michigan and developed by writer Fran Stryker of Buffalo, New York. ... Lux Radio Theater, one of the genuine classic radio anthology series (NBC Blue Network, 1934-1935; CBS 1935-1955), adapted first Broadway stage and then (and especially) films to hour-long live radio presentations and became the standard by which future radio and early television anthologies would be judged. ... Ma Perkins was a radio serial which was heard on NBC from 1933 to 1949 and on CBS from 1942 to 1960. ... The March of Time was a newsreel that was shown in movie theaters from 1935 - 1951. ... The Mercury Theatre was a theatre company founded in New York City by Orson Welles and John Houseman. ... One Mans Family was an American dramatic series which ran on radio from 1932 to 1959, and on NBC-TV off and on from 1949 to 1955. ... The Romance of Helen Trent was a radio soap opera which aired on CBS from 1933 to 1960. ... Who knows what evil lurks. ... Take It Or Leave It may refer to: Take It or Leave It (movie), a movie about Madness (band) Take It Or Leave It, a song by the Rolling Stones from their 1966 album Aftermath Take It Or Leave It, a song by The Strokes from their 2001 album Is... You Bet Your Life was an American radio and television quiz show. ... Your Hit Parade was a popular United States music radio and television program. ...

External link

• Official website