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Belinda Carlisle on Covering ’60s and ’70s AM Radio Hits She Grew Up on for New Album, ‘Once Upon a Time in California,’ and This Year’s Go-Go’s Reunion

The Go-Go’s were good and all, but you know who really had the beat? The DJs who powered KHJ and KRLA in the 1960s and early ’70s, when seemingly every kid in Los Angeles was tuned in to one of just a ...
American Songwriter

60 years of Radio Caroline: The U.K.’s Enduring History of Pirate Radio Stations

The U.K. has a long and lasting history of pirate radio stations. These are stations that were set up on ships and broadcast from international waters. The BBC had a monopoly on the airwaves in the ...
CBS News

How 2 men transformed an Annapolis radio station for Black listeners in the 60s

In the 1950s and 60s, WANN Radio in Annapolis became a beacon for Black listeners by playing music and broadcasting voices that other mainstream stations ignored. The station, led by Charles "Hoppy" ...

BBC presses ahead with Radio 2 60s and 70s spin-off station despite admitting it will harm rivals

The “arrogant” BBC is to press ahead with plans for a Radio 2 spin-off station despite admitting it will harm commercial ...