Update: This post originally said Cruisin’ Oldies would be moving from 950 AM to 103.1 FM, rather than being simulcast on the latter. The headline and copy below has been corrected: Back in September ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

It's not that I don't trust you, Ernest, but—partly to be able to say I was "doing research" while passed out in my car at Denny's—I switched my radio to KWLZ (96.3), the Eagle (106.7) and Charlie (97 ...

With his cheery baritone and enthusiasm for old rock, R&B, doo-wop and soul, Art Laboe was a fixture of West Coast radio for 79 years. The gregarious Los Angeles disc jockey was considered as much a ...

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 ...

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Art Laboe, the pioneering radio DJ credited with helping end segregation in Southern California, has died. He was 97. Laboe died Friday night after catching pneumonia, said ...

K&B. Schwegmann’s. Maison Blanche. As Benny Grunch would say, those places “ain’t dere no more.” But WTIX-FM 94.3 is still around, playing the music that on-air personality “Pal Al” Nassar describes ...