Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (born January 12, 1951) is an American radio talk show host and political commentator. Born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, he is a self-described conservative, who discusses politics and current events on his program, "The Rush Limbaugh Show". He has been credited with reviving AM radio in the United States, and is considered to have been a catalyst for the Republican Party's Congressional victories in 1994.

John Donald "Don" Imus, Jr. (born March 11, 1940) is a controversial American humorist, writer, radio and television talk show host in the mold of a shock jock. His "drive time" weekday morning radio show, "Imus in the Morning" was aired over WNBC and WFAN in New York from 1971 to 1977 (when he was fired) and again from 1979 until it was canceled on April 12 2007, in response to comments he made on air.

Edward R. Murrow ( April 25 , 1908 - April 27 , 1965 ) is viewed by historians as one of the great figures who stood for honesty and integrity in American broadcast journalism during the middle of the 20th Century . His radio news broadcasts during World War II were eagerly followed by millions of radio listeners.

Charles Osgood (born Charles Osgood Wood, III on January 8, 1933) is a radio and television commentator in the United States. His daily program, "The Osgood File", has been broadcast on the CBS Radio Network since 1971. Osgood was born in New York City. He graduated from Fordham University with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1954 with a major in economics. While at Fordham, Osgood worked at the university's FM radio station WFUV.

A 35 year broadcasting veteran, Bohannon began his career in 1960 at his hometown station, KLWT-AM, Lebanon, MO. After college at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield and service in the U.S. Army, he moved to Washington where he worked at Easy Listening WGAY-FM and News-Talkers WTOP-AM and WWRC-AM. He later moved to Chicago in 1980 where he worked as a morning anchor at WCFL-FM Radio and as a freelance reporter for Cable News Network.

Norman Lewis Corwin (born May 3, 1910, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing. His earliest and biggest success was in the writing and directing of radio drama during the 1930s and 1940s. Corwin was among the first producers to regularly use entertainment -- even light entertainment -- to tackle serious social issues. In this area he was a peer to Orson Welles and William Robson, …

Dick Biondi (born September 13, 1933, Endicott, New York, USA) is a Radio Hall of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Top 40 and Oldies disc jockey. Biondi began his career in radio on WCBA in Corning, New York, he was picked up in 1958 by WKBW AM 1520 in Buffalo, New York, and in 1960 gained fame on the 50,000 watt WLS 890 in Chicago, Illinois which covered most of the United States east of the continental divide.

Vincent Edward "Vin" Scully (born November 29, 1927, in The Bronx, New York) is an American sportscaster, known primarily as the play-by-play voice of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers baseball teams. In 50 seasons in Los Angeles (1958-2007), Vin Scully has become a beloved figure. His 57-year tenure with the Dodgers (1950-2007) is the longest of any broadcaster with a single club in professional sports history.

Susan Stamberg has been a journalist and host with NPR for more than 30 years. In 1972, as the co-host of the fledgling new program All Things Considered , she made broadcast history by becoming the first woman in the country to anchor a national news program. Stamberg, who was been inducted into the Broadcast Hall of Fame in 1996, is currently a Special Correspondent for NPR.

Dick Purtan (born Paul Richard Purtan) is the morning radio show host on WOMC-FM serving the Detroit, Michigan USA radio market. Purtan was previously a disc jockey at WKNR-AM (1965-67), WXYZ-AM (1968-78), CKLW-AM (1978-83), and WCZY-FM which became WKQI-FM in 1989 (1983-96). Previous to coming to Detroit at WKNR "Keener 13" in 1965, Purtan worked at WOLF-AM in Syracuse, NY and WSAI in Cincinnati; he began his radio career in his hometown of Buffalo, …

Robert W. Morgan (born 1937, died May 22, 1998) was a renowned disc jockey who was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1999. He did most of his work in Los Angeles, California at stations such as KHJ, where he was known as one of the "boss jocks" that dominated the Top 40 market in Southern California during the late 1960s.

Martin Block (1901-1967) was the first radio disc jockey to become a star in his own right. He was born in Los Angeles, California. Walter Winchell coined the term "disc jockey" as a description of Block. In 1935, while listeners to New York's WNEW in New York (now information outlet WBBR) were awaiting developments in the Lindbergh kidnapping, Block built his audience by playing records between the Lindbergh news bulletins.

Ann Compton (b. 19 January 1947) is an American news reporter for ABC News. Compton began her career when an internship through her school, Hollins College (now Hollins University) led to a job reporting for CBS in Roanoke. In 1973, ABC News hired Compton and she reported from New York until December 1974 when she was assigned to the White House. In June 2000, Compton was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.

Bill Stern (July 1, 1907 - November 19, 1971) was a U.S. actor and sportscaster who announced the nation's first remote sports broadcast and the first telecast of a Major League Baseball game. He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame (1988) and has a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Lee De Forest was an American inventor with over 300 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and amplifies them. De Forest is one of the fathers of the "electronic age", as the Audion helped to usher in the widespread use of electronics. He was involved in several patent lawsuits and he spent a fortune from his inventions on the legal bills. He had four marriages and several failed companies, …

Bruce Williams is an American businessman and radio talk show host, who hosts "The Bruce Williams Show" on weekday evenings from 7 PM to 10 PM Eastern time. Williams has been doing his national radio show for more than 25 years. Williams grew up in East Orange, New Jersey. After serving with the United States Air Force in Korea and earning a degree in education from Newark State Teachers College, now Kean University, he became active in politics, education, …

Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 - August 29,1981) was an American writer, broadcaster, and traveller best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous. So varied were Thomas's activities that when it came time for the Library of Congress to catalog his memoirs they were forced to put them in "CT" in their classification - biographies of subjects who don't fit into any other category.

Rick Sklar (born c. 1930, died June 22, 1992) was an American radio program director, who while at New York City's WABC was one of the originators of the Top 40 radio format. Rick grew up in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. He graduated from New York University and volunteered at WNYC radio as a writer. He then worked at WPAC in Patchogue, New York then went to New York's WMGM in 1960 as Program Director. He moved to WABC in December of 1960.

Hal Jackson is an American disk jockey and radio personality who broke a number of color barriers in American radio broadcasting. Jackson grew up in Washington, D.C. and attended Howard University. Jackson began his broadcasting career as the first African-American radio sports announcer, broadcasting Howard’s home baseball games and local Negro league baseball games. In 1939, he became the first African American host at WINX/Washington with "The Bronze Review", …

A former newspaper editor and marketing executive, he turned his hobby into a vocation and draws from a collection of more than 50,000 vintage broadcasts to prepare his programs. He is the founding editor and publisher of the Nostalgia Digest ; author of WBBM Radio: Yesterday and Today, a history of station WBBM, Chicago; and author of Speaking of Radio a Chuck Schaden 's conversations with the stars of the Golden Age of Radio , published by his Nostalgia Digest Press.

John Alfred Gambling was a member of the Gambling family, 3 generations of whom - John B., John A. and John R. - were hosts of WOR Radio's (New York City, 710 AM) morning show "Rambling With Gambling" over the course of 75 years (1925-2000). "Rambling With Gambling" was listed in the Guinness World Records of 2003 as the "world's longest-running radio show." The top-rated program offered the first on-air broadcast of school closings and helicopter traffic reports.

Joseph Priestly "J.P." McCarthy (b. March 22 1933, New York City - d. August 16 1995) was a radio personality best known for his over 30 years of work as the morning man and interviewer on station WJR in Detroit, Michigan.

Don Dunphy (July 5, 1908 - July 22, 1998) was an United States television and radio sports announcer specializing in boxing broadcasts. Dunphy was noted for his fast paced delivery and enthusiasm for the sport. It is estimated that he did "blow-by-blow" action for over 2,000 fights. Dunphy was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1988 and had a memorable cameo appearance in the 1971 Woody Allen movie "Bananas".

James Henry Quello (born April 21, 1914, in Laurium, Michigan) was a Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and, in 1993, served as the Acting Chairman of the Commission. His term as Acting Chairman ended when Reed Hundt was confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

Ernie Harwell was born January 25, 1918 in Washington, Georgia. He graduated from Emory University and from there he began his career working as a copy editor and sportswriter for the Atlanta Constitution. Ernie Harwell also was a regional correspondent for one of the top sports publications, The Sporting News. Ernie Harwell got his first announcing gig for the Atlanta Crackers, which was a minor league baseball team based in Atlanta, Georgia between 1901 and 1965.