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Dave Nelson begins his new job as WNYX News Director, but first he has to fire his predecessor. [more inside]
posted by gauche on Nov 8, 2022 - 8 comments

Stefan Ashton Frank, Rose Johnson and Susan Harrison tell the story of the Lord Of The Sun, in an episode that might well have come straight out of Joe Frank or Blue Jam. But with significantly more rich beef sausage.
posted by eotvos on Jun 15, 2022 - 1 comment

Tami is a sharpie, and Ed is her cap. After all these years, marriage has left an indelible mark. Featuring Tami Sagher and Ed Herbstman.
posted by eotvos on Mar 19, 2020 - 0 comments

Scott is always listening.
posted by eotvos on Jul 15, 2019 - 0 comments

Petey's just trying to stay on top.
posted by eotvos on Mar 26, 2019 - 0 comments

Alligator is a stuffed animal, and things are about to get different.
posted by eotvos on Feb 20, 2019 - 2 comments

Trivia fans -may not- have heard of one of the toughest contests of them all ... the KVSC (MN college radio station) contest ... which has been honed for 39 years. This, 40th year, it takes place Feb. 15-17, 2019 . [more inside]
posted by Twang on Feb 2, 2019 - 2 comments

Annie is a jack o' lantern, but she doesn't want to scare you.
posted by eotvos on Nov 5, 2018 - 3 comments

Fet and Quinlan must figure out how to get the nuclear bomb back to New York, while a desperate Eichhorst draws near; love-struck Zack tries to learn more about his new crush, but makes a devastating discovery.
posted by jojo and the benjamins on Aug 21, 2017 - 6 comments

At San Quentin Prison, the typical cell measures approximately 4' x 9' and contains a bunk bed, toilet, sink, two men, and their six cubic feet of belongings. In our first episode of Ear Hustle, hear stories of negotiating this space and the relationships that come with living in such close quarters. [more inside]
posted by eotvos on Jun 16, 2017 - 4 comments

A meet-cute where two men discover their shared childhood fascination with a local mansion and the strange widow who lives there. Turns out that the widow has a dark past--her husband was Dr. John Romulus Brinkley, an eccentric genius and medical fraudster who built an empire in Depression-era America with a goat testicle impotence cure and a million watt radio station. [more inside]
posted by radioamy on Jan 19, 2017 - 11 comments

The NBC chimes may be the most famous sound in broadcasting. Originating in the 1920s, the three key sequential notes are familiar to generations of radio listeners and television watchers. [more inside]
posted by schmod on Dec 2, 2016 - 7 comments

This encounter might have been as commonplace as any other gunfight around Hell’s Half-Acre were it not for the identity of the driver. The “Sanders” who put two bullets in Matt Stewart was none other than Harland Sanders, the man who would go on to become the world-famous Colonel Sanders. He was dark-haired and clean-shaven at the time, but his future likeness would one day appear on Kentucky Fried Chicken billboards, buildings, and buckets worldwide. In contrast to most other famous food icons, Colonel Sanders was once a living, breathing person, and his life story is considerably more tumultuous than the white-washed corporate biography suggests
posted by eotvos on Mar 20, 2016 - 1 comment

Each week through Labor Day, we'll be pulling an OTM gem from our vast archives for you to enjoy on the beach, in a park... or on a sticky subway, while imagining you're on a beach. For the last episode of our summer listening series, we present our first and only effort at full-fledged radio theatre: Pledge This!  To hear more of our summer listening, don't forget to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts, and leave a review while you're there! And as always, follow us on twitter @OnTheMedia.
posted by garlic on Sep 10, 2015 - 1 comment

Jake turns into a brick to fulfill a childhood fantasy of being a brick in a wall as it collapses, but ends up narrating the drama of a rabbit caught in a storm.
posted by Small Dollar on Nov 26, 2014 - 13 comments

An unorthodox and irreverent DJ begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the US Armed Services Radio station in Vietnam. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Nov 15, 2014 - 2 comments

The story of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Sep 21, 2014 - 8 comments