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Category Archives: Radio
The Joe Starkey Hero System
In 1980 I am thirteen and I want to be a voice. Not a player. A voice. I write a letter to Joe Starkey (b. 1941), the sports director at KGO in San Francisco, and I ask him how a … Continue reading
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Ken Minyard and the Los Angeles Morning
Ken Minyard (b. 1939) spent the better part of thirty-five years at KABC-AM (790) and helping define the personality-driven, locally rooted style of talk that dominated Southern California airwaves before national political programming took over the format. He is best … Continue reading
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Ken Dito: A Life in Bay Area Radio
Ken Dito spent more than four decades on Northern California radio, and his career tells us something about how local broadcasting worked before national syndication and the internet flattened it. He moved among the major San Francisco stations, called and … Continue reading
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Bob Grant and the Invention of Combat Talk
Bob Grant (March 14, 1929 – December 31, 2013) built the confrontational, personality-driven format that national broadcasters later carried across the country, and he built it a decade or more before the men now attached to the genre reached a … Continue reading
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Joe Pyne and the Ranking Nuisance of Broadcasting
Joe Pyne (December 22, 1924-March 23, 1970) built a career out of conflict. He hosted radio and television talk shows that treated the interview as combat. He advocated his own opinions, baited his guests, and insulted the callers and studio … Continue reading
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The Anthropology of Talk Radio
In his 2018 book, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities, John J. Mearsheimer wrote: My view is that we are profoundly social beings from the start to the finish of our lives and that individualism is of secondary … Continue reading
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The Citizen’s Briefing: Ian Masters and the Construction of an Independent Foreign-Policy Forum
Ian Masters (b. 1947) is an Australian-born American broadcaster, BBC-trained journalist, author, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker. He created and hosts Background Briefing, a public-affairs radio program and podcast devoted to foreign policy, national security, intelligence, and American politics. Over more … Continue reading
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Kyle Sandilands and the Economics of Offense
Kyle Dalton Sandilands (b. 1971) dominated Australian breakfast radio for two decades and changed what commercial broadcasting in that country rewards. He built the largest breakfast audience in Sydney through celebrity interviews, sexual confession, manufactured conflict, and a persona that … Continue reading
After the Kings: Ben Fordham and the Remaking of 2GB Breakfast
Ben Fordham (b. 1976) hosts the breakfast program on Sydney radio station 2GB, the most consequential talkback slot in Australian broadcasting. The chair he occupies once belonged to Alan Jones (b. 1941), and before the station consolidations of the early … Continue reading
The Entertainer’s Exemption: John Laws and the Price of Trust
John Laws (1935-2025) dominated Australian commercial talkback radio for longer than any broadcaster in the nation’s history. Across seventy-one years on air, he turned a format built on listener telephone calls into an instrument of political access, commercial persuasion, and … Continue reading