Film & TV
March 13, 2024
A New Film Says Goodbye to an Austin Legend and the Austin of Legends
‘Faders Up: The John Aielli Experience’ pays homage to the longtime KUT radio host and the city that embraced him.
Radio
News & Politics
March 5, 2024
The Force Behind the Growth of Texas Public Radio
Joyce Slocum, who died Sunday, built TPR into a national model for independent local and collaborative journalism. She was also one hell of a friend.
News & Politics
February 13, 2024
Can a Feisty Independent Radio Station Change a Small East Texas Town?
An East Texas DJ is trying to turn his indie station into an agent of change in a community that’s grappling with profound demographic shifts.
Texas Country Reporter
May 26, 2023
The Niche Czech Radio Show That Still Reaches Listeners After Fifty Years
Radio DJ David Kolar hosts The American Czech Hour, which broadcasts from Hillsboro across a 25-mile radius.
Travel & Outdoors
October 18, 2022
The Godfather of Organic Gardening Is Bringing All the Millennials to the Yard
San Antonio talk radio host Bob Webster has dispensed gardening tips on air for 31 years. A new generation is starting to listen.
Texas Country Reporter
May 11, 2022
Check Out Kilgore’s Treasure Trove of Vintage Cameras, Radios, and TVs
From the obscure to the historically significant, the Texas Broadcast Museum tells a uniquely twentieth-century story.
Music
July 21, 2021
Mary McCoy Keeps Texas Country Radio’s Golden Age Alive
After seven decades behind the mic, the Conroe deejay still spins the sort of country records they just don’t make anymore—for a town that barely resembles the one she grew up in.
Arts & Entertainment
September 4, 2020
The Weird, Wonderful Story of Texas’s First Radio Station
From its origins airing the banter of bored firefighters to its robust classical programming today, Dallas’s WRR-FM has filled an unusual niche on the airwaves for nearly a century.
Music
July 3, 2020
This Radio Station Has Served Blind Texans for More Than 50 Years
For many listeners, Houston’s Sight into Sound is more than a radio station.
Music
March 21, 2019
Premiere: The Final Chapter of Terry Allen’s ‘Pedal Steal’
The Lubbock native talks about his trippy, blood-flecked radio plays, the border wall, and working with Jo Harvey Allen.
Music
January 3, 2019
Bobby Bones Is Just Getting Started
The unlikely rise (and rise, and rise) of the most powerful man in country music.
Music
October 13, 2014
A News Radio Station Ends and a Beyoncé-Only Station is (Temporarily?) Born
'Yonce all on the radio like liquor. Like, like, liquor.
Music
January 21, 2013
Outlaw Country Radio Returns to Austin
A reboot of KOKE-FM, Austin's pioneering 1970s progressive country station, began broadcasting on Sunday, with longtime KVET personality Bob Cole as co-owner and morning DJ.
Web Exclusive
October 31, 2011
Narrating the Night Sky
San Antonio's Sandy Wood has been the voice of StarDate for twenty years.
Music
April 1, 2004
The Voice of America
Is Clear Channel, the San Antonio-based radio behemoth, as patently evil as everyone says? Don't touch that dial.
Biz Media
August 31, 1999
Hits and Mrs.
How Lady Bird Johnson became the first lady of Texas radio.
Sports
November 1, 1998
Hannah Storm
When I graduated from Notre Dame in 1983, I wanted to be a sportscaster. But at the time there were very few women doing that, so I had a difficult time finding a job. I answered some want ads in a broadcasting publication, and one of the advertisements was for
Feature
August 31, 1998
RADIO: Tom Joyner
The host with the most.
Politics & Policy
June 30, 1998
Radio Daze
Gary Mauro’s bad spell.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1998
What’s Left?
When you listen to Jim Hightower’s talk radio show, that’s the question you inevitably ask—about him, the medium, and Texas liberalism.
Business
November 1, 1997
Strong Signals
With increasing frequency, radio stations in Texas are changing hands—and aggressive Texas entrepreneurs are finally making waves.
Health
July 31, 1996
Spin Control
Vertigo isn’t just the stuff of Hitchcock thrillers—it’s a debilitating disease, as Dallas radio talk show host Kevin McCarthy found out the hard way.
Business
April 30, 1996
Now Hear This
The surprising sound of the Internet.
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1996
The Far Right Stuff
Wyatt Roberts says he’s simply crusading against sin, but critics contend that the Christian activist is trying to usher in a new era in Texas: the anti-gay nineties.
Arts & Entertainment
November 1, 1992
Radio Foreplay
In the beginning, say Stevens and Pruett, a listener dubbed them “radio gods.”
Arts & Entertainment
June 30, 1992
Too Legit to Quit
Ward and deejays Murphy, Milton, and Love rap about rappers.
News & Politics
April 1, 1992
Radio Central
Part history, part gossip, part stream of consciousness, Mattie Dellinger’s talk show speaks to the heart of Center, Texas.
Arts & Entertainment
March 1, 1986
Turn It Up!
The rudest, crudest, and most obnoxious disc jockeys are on in the mornings. Here’s the best—or the worst—of the lot.
Music
February 1, 1980
Rock ’N’ Roll’s Wizard of Oz
How Gordon McLendon stormed Texas with Top 40 . . . da doo ron ron.
Arts & Entertainment
February 1, 1977
The Great American Addiction
Ready when you are, CB.
Arts & Entertainment
February 28, 1975
The Good Old Days
An old-timer in radio broadcasting remembers some things he’d rather forget.
Arts & Entertainment
February 28, 1975
Tuning In Texas
Five radio announcers who’ll help you make it through the night, or day.
News & Politics
April 30, 1974
Dallas Radio Goes Public
Beginning at the end of May or early June, Dallasites will have a new and unique radio station. KERA-FM, 90.1 on the dial, will be the city’s first public radio outlet and will provide a welcome relief from the inane, shrill banter of jingles and jive from the top-40 jocks
Arts & Entertainment
March 1, 1973
Salvation Worries? Prostate Trouble?
Across-the-border radio stations milk the boondocks.