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Me and Bobby Miller

Angela Townsend — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:30:00 +0000

Everybody needs an oldies station. WKBJ was equal parts doo-wop and PG hijinks, faceless friend to commuters from Saugerties to Secaucus. It was the late ’90s, when Neil Diamond and the Beach Boys jostled for room in the nostalgia car. Bobby Miller was the manic maestro behind the wheel. Favored by parents and Earth Science […]

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Guaranteed to Keep You

Colin Fleming — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 12:30:00 +0000

Even by the standards of the golden age of radio, the run for the program Suspense was extreme in length. It positioned itself — and certainly marketed itself — as the gold standard in what were called thrillers at the time, and was arguably the most prestigious radio show — an audible legacy brand — […]

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What’s In The Mix?

John Crawford — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:30:39 +0000

My 2004 Toyota Corolla is well-traveled. The dashboard is dusty, the floor mats dirty. Trinkets and toys are tossed about the backseat. Some 135,000 miles of road have rushed under its wheels. This is the car we brought our daughter home from the hospital after she was born, the car in which I’ve taken countless […]

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Sound Salvation

Maren Larsen — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 11:30:15 +0000

Each section of this piece is accompanied by song. Press play and crank it. I stumbled out of the wormhole that was the first few weeks of freshman year and landed at a new member meeting for WKDU, Drexel’s student-run college radio station. A few dozen freshmen, overconfident in their music taste, gathered in an […]

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The Radio Homemaker

Edward Bottone — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 13:04:16 +0000

This piece was originally published in our newly relaunched partner publication, Table Matters: a journal of food, drink, and manners. Long before Garrison Keillor debuted A Prairie Home Companion in 1974, there were prairie home companions on the radio every day. Prairies are vast flat lands populated by shrubs, grasses, and wild herbs, with few trees and […]

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Bows and Bees

Colin Fleming — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:12:43 +0000

I harbor a host of dreams — “ambitions” seems too vulgar a word to me — that, were they to be realized, would crystalize in something very quiet, contained, at ease, and not especially splashy so far as dreams go, but indicative of a repast that comes with more obvious victories. There will be me […]

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Radios Going Bump in the Night

Colin Fleming — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:12:43 +0000

I am not sure if people still make a practice of listening to the radio in bed, late at night. This was always something, in times past, one endeavored to do in youth, especially as there was a sense of getting away with an act — albeit a harmless one — that had to be […]

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