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• The A&P Gypsies
  The A&P Gypsies
  The A&P Gypsies was a musical series broadcast on radio beginning in 1924. With the opening theme of "Two Guitars," the host and band leader was Harry Horlick, who had learned gypsy folk music while traveling with gypsy bands in Istanbul....
  
  , variety, 1930, NBC
  NBC
  The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
  
  -Red, 8:30-9:30 p.m. Mondays); The host and band leader was Harry Horlick; Announcers were Phillips Carlin and Milton Cross
  Milton Cross
  Milton John Cross was an American radio announcer famous for his work on the NBC and ABC radio networks.He was best known as the voice of the Metropolitan Opera, hosting its Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts for 43 years, from the time of their inception in 1931 until his death in...
  
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• A.L. Alexander's Goodwill Court, (1936, NBC, 30 minutes weekly)
• A.L. Alexander's Mediation Board, 1943–1952, Mutual, advice
• The Abbott and Costello Children's Show
  Abbott and Costello
  William "Bud" Abbott and Lou Costello performed together as Abbott and Costello, an American comedy duo whose work on stage, radio, film and television made them the most popular comedy team during the 1940s and 1950s...
  
  , children's, (ABC, 1947–1949)
• The Abbott and Costello Show
  Abbott and Costello
  William "Bud" Abbott and Lou Costello performed together as Abbott and Costello, an American comedy duo whose work on stage, radio, film and television made them the most popular comedy team during the 1940s and 1950s...
  
  , comedy, 30 minutes, (NBC - 1940, 1942–1947, ABC 1947-1949)
• Abbott Mysteries
  Abbott Mysteries
  Abbott Mysteries was a comedy-mystery radio program adapted from the novels of Frances Crane . Initially a summer replacement for Quick As a Flash, the series was heard on Mutual and NBC between the years 1945 and 1955....
  
  (Mutual Broadcasting System
  Mutual Broadcasting System
  The Mutual Broadcasting System was an American radio network, in operation from 1934 to 1999. In the golden age of U.S. radio drama, MBS was best known as the original network home of The Lone Ranger and The Adventures of Superman and as the long-time radio residence of The Shadow...
  
  , 1945–1947, mystery, 30 minutes). Based on the novels by Frances Crane. The stars were Julie Stevens
  Julie Stevens (American actress)
  This article is about the American actress, singer, director and producer. For other Julie Stevens, see Julie Stevens .Julie Stevens is an American actress.-Biography:...
  
   as Jean Abbott and Charles Webster as Pat Abbott. The writers included Howard Merrill and Ed Adamsom.
• The Abe Burrows Show
  Abe Burrows
  Abe Burrows was a Tony and Pulitzer-winning American humorist, author, and director for radio and the stage.-Early years:...
  
  , comedy, (1948, CBS, 15 minutes)
• Abie's Irish Rose
  Abie's Irish Rose
  Abie's Irish Rose is a popular comedy by Anne Nichols familiar from stage productions, films and radio programs. The basic premise involves an Irish Catholic girl and a young Jewish man who marry despite the objections of their families.-Theater and films:...
  
  , comedy, NBC, 1942–1944, 8:00-8:30 p.m. Sunday)
• Academy Award (radio), anthology, (CBS, 1946, 30 minutes); Music - Leith Stevens
  Leith Stevens
  Leith Stevens was an American composer for radio and film scores.Born in Mount Moriah, Missouri, he was a child prodigy who was an accompanist for Madame Schumann-Heink....
  
  ; Producer - Lee Engelbach; Adaptations - Frank Wilson;
• Accordiana
  Accordiana
  Accordiana was a musical radio series which was heard on CBS in 1934, airing at 8:30pm on Tuesday evenings.The 30-minute program featured soprano Vivienne Segal and tenor Oliver Smith....
  
  (1934, CBS
  CBS
  CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
  
  , 8:30-9:00 p.m. Tuesday, with soprano
  Soprano
  A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
  
   Vivienne Segal
  Vivienne Segal
  Vivienne Sonia Segal was an American actress and singer.Segal was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is best remembered for creating the role of Vera Simpson in Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's Pal Joey and introduced the song "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"...
  
  , tenor
  Tenor
  The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
  
   Oliver Smith, and the Abe Lyman Orchestra)
• Acousticon Hour
  Acousticon Hour
  Acousticon Hour was a "musicale" radio program aired during 1927 and 1928 on NBC. It offered selections from classical music, orchestral favorites, operas and operettas.-History:...
  
  , (1927–1928, NBC
  NBC
  The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
  
  , 5:30-6:00 p.m. Sundays)
• Action
  Action (radio)
  Action was a planned 1945 NBC anthology series of action-adventure tales. However, the series went no further than the first audition drama, although an announcement on the show reveals an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's "Victory" was scheduled, along with stories by Ernest Hemingway and Jack...
  
  , 1945 anthology series; one episode - High Explosive with Jane Wyatt
  Jane Wyatt
  Jane Waddington Wyatt was an American actress perhaps best known for her role as the housewife and mother on the television comedy Father Knows Best, and as Amanda Grayson, the human mother of Spock on the science fiction television series Star Trek...
  
  , Robert Lowery
  Robert Lowery (actor)
  Robert Lowery was an American motion picture, television, and stage actor who appeared in over seventy films.-Early life:...
  
  , and star and narrator William Gargan
  William Gargan
  William Gargan, born William Dennis Gargan July 17, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York, USA and died February 17, 1979 aged 73 on a flight between New York and San Diego.He was an American motion picture, television and radio actor...
  
  
• The Adam Carolla Show (2006–2009)
• Add a Line
  Add a Line
  Add a Line was a daytime radio game show which aired on ABC in 1949 and 1950.The 30-minute program was broadcast at 2:30pm and other time periods during its two-year run. The host was John Nelson , who was heard on other audience participation radio shows, including Bride and Groom and Breakfast at...
  
  , game, ABC, 1949, 30 minutes; Host - John Nelson;
• The Adele Clark Show
  The Adele Clark Show
  The Adele Clark Show was a musical variety radio series which aired on ABC from 1945 to 1946. It was sometimes known as Songs by Adele Clark....
  
  , variety, ABC, 1945–1946, 30 minutes; Host and Singer - Adele Clark; Announcer - Gene Kirby; Music - Jack Kelly and his orchestra;
• Adult Education Series
  Adult Education Series
  Adult Education Series was the umbrella title for three different CBS Radio educational programs, all under the supervision of Sterling Fisher....
  
  (1938–1957)
• Adventure Parade
  Adventure Parade
  Adventure Parade was a 15-minute daily anthology series which was broadcast on Mutual from 1946 to 1949, produced and directed by Robert and Jessica Maxwell....
  
  , anthology, MBS
  Mutual Broadcasting System
  The Mutual Broadcasting System was an American radio network, in operation from 1934 to 1999. In the golden age of U.S. radio drama, MBS was best known as the original network home of The Lone Ranger and The Adventures of Superman and as the long-time radio residence of The Shadow...
  
  , 1946–1949, 15 minutes; Host/Storyteller - John Griggs; Announcer - George Hogan;
• Adventures by Morse
  Adventures by Morse
  Adventures by Morse was a 52-episode syndicated adventure series produced, written and directed by Carlton E. Morse shortly after NBC canceled his I Love a Mystery series.-Characters and stories:...
  
  , adventure, syndicated, 1944, 30 minutes; Elliott Lewis, David Ellis, and Russell Thorson as Bart Friday; Barton Yarborough
  Barton Yarborough
  William Barton Yarborough was an American actor who worked extensively in radio drama.As a youth, Yarborough ran away from home, attracted by the vaudeville stages, and he first worked in radio during the 1920s...
  
   as Skip Turner; Writer/Producer - Carlton E. Morse
  Carlton E. Morse
  Carlton Errol Morse was a Louisiana-born producer/journalist best known for his creation of the radio serial One Man's Family, which debuted in 1932 and ran until 1959 as one of the most popular as well as long-running radio soap operas of the time. He also was responsible for the radio serial I...
  
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• Adventures in Odyssey
  Adventures in Odyssey
  Adventures in Odyssey , or simply Odyssey, is an Evangelical Christian-themed radio drama/comedy series created by Focus on the Family in 1987. The show's daily audience averages around 1.2 million within North America. The Odyssey series also includes several spin-off items, including a home-video...
  
  (1987–present)
• The Adventures of Babe Ruth
  Babe Ruth
  George Herman Ruth, Jr. , best known as "Babe" Ruth and nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat", was an American Major League baseball player from 1914–1935...
  
  
• The Adventures of Bill Lance
  The Adventures of Bill Lance
  The Adventures of Bill Lance was a 30-minute radio crime drama, created by J. Donald Wilson, which aired on two different networks in two separate runs between 1944 and 1948....
  
  , crime drama, ABC, 1947–1948, 30 minutes; Gerald Mohr
  Gerald Mohr
  Gerald Mohr was an American radio, film and television character actor who appeared in over 4,000 radio plays, 73 films and over 100 television shows....
  
   as Bill Lance; Announcer - Owen James;
• The Adventures of Champion
  The Adventures of Champion
  The Adventures of Champion is a 15-minute adventure serial radio drama directed by William Burch and heard weekday afternoons on the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1949-50.-Radio:...
  
  , adventure, MBS, 1949–1950, 15 minutes. Adventures of Gene Autry
  Gene Autry
  Orvon Grover Autry , better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s...
  
  's horse, Champion.
• The Adventures of Christopher Wells
  The Adventures of Christopher Wells
  The Adventures of Christopher Wells was a 30-minute radio crime drama broadcast on CBS from September 28, 1947 to June 22, 1948. It was heard at 10pm on Sunday during 1947, and in 1948 it aired on Tuesday at 9:30pm...
  
  , crime drama, CBS, 1947–1948, 30 minutes. Myron McCormick and Les Damon as Christopher Wells, Charlotte Lawrence and Vicki Vola as Stacy McGill; orchestra - Peter von Streeden.
• The Adventures of Dick Cole
  The Adventures of Dick Cole
  The Adventures of Dick Cole was a 1942 juvenile adventure radio series based on a comic book character published by Novelty Press, and later, Star Publications. Created in 1940 by cartoonist Bob Davis , Dick Cole is a heroic cadet at the fictional Farr Military Academy...
  
  , adventure, syndicated, 1942, 30 minutes. Dick Cole was a comic book character. Leon Janney played Dick Cole. The announcer was Paul Luther and music was by Lew White.
• The Adventures of Ellery Queen
  The Adventures of Ellery Queen
  The Adventures of Ellery Queen is the title of a radio series and four separate television series made from the 1950s through the 1970s. They were based on the fictional character and pseudonymous writer Ellery Queen.-Radio:...
  
  (1939–1948)
• The Adventures of Father Brown
  The Adventures of Father Brown
  The Adventures of Father Brown was a 1945 radio crime drama that aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System, adapted from G. K. Chesterton's stories of Father Brown....
  
  , crime drama, MBS, 1945, 30 minutes.
• The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
  Frank Merriwell
  Frank Merriwell is a fictional character appearing in a series of novels and short stories by Gilbert Patten, who wrote under the pseudonym Burt L. Standish...
  
  , adventure, NBC, 1946–1949, 30 minutes.
• The Adventures of Frank Race
  The Adventures of Frank Race
  The Adventures of Frank Race was an American radio adventure serial syndicated by Bruce Eells Productions. The 30-minute program's first East Coast broadcast was 1949, and the show ran 43 episodes. Because it was syndicated, it aired on different stations on different days. For instance, in New...
  
  , adventure, syndicated, 1949–1950, 30 minutes. The stars were Tom Collins and Paul Dubov as Frank Race and Tony Barnett as Mark Donovan. The announcer was Art Gilmore
  Art Gilmore
  Arthur Wells "Art" Gilmore was an American voice actor and announcer whose voice has been heard in radio and television programs, movies, trailers, advertising promotions and documentary films.-Biography:...
  
  , and the music by Ivan Ditmars.
• The Adventures of Gracie
  Burns and Allen
  Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.-Vaudeville:...
  
  , (also known as The Vintage White Owl
  White Owl
  White Owls are American-made, machine produced cigars. White Owl cigars are inexpensive, costing around an average of $1.50. The logo consists of a Snowy owl perched on a cigar.-History:...
  
   Program) comedy, CBS, 1934–1935, 30 minutes. The hosts and stars were George Burns
  George Burns
  George Burns , born Nathan Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor, and writer.He was one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, film, radio, television and movies, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen. His arched eyebrow and cigar smoke punctuation became...
  
   and Gracie Allen
  Gracie Allen
  Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen , known as Gracie Allen, was an American comedian who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns...
  
  . Vocalists included The Picken Sisters and the White Owl Buccaneers. The announcer was Bill Goodwin
  Bill Goodwin
  Bill Goodwin was for many years the announcer and regular character of the Burns and Allen radio program, and subsequently The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show on television from 1950-51...
  
  . Robert E. Dolan
  Robert E. Dolan
  Robert Emmett "Bobby" Dolan was a Broadway conductor, composer and arranger beginning in the 1920s. He moved on to radio in the 1930s, and then went to Hollywood in the early 1940s as a musical director for Paramount. He scored, arranged, and conducted many musical and dramatic films in the 1940s...
  
   led the orchestra.
• The Adventures of Helen and Mary
  Let's Pretend
  This article is on the US radio series. For the UK TV series see Let's Pretend .Let's Pretend, created and directed by Nila Mack , was a long-run CBS radio series for children....
  
  , children's, CBS, 1929–1934, 30 minutes. Became Let's Pretend
  Let's Pretend
  This article is on the US radio series. For the UK TV series see Let's Pretend .Let's Pretend, created and directed by Nila Mack , was a long-run CBS radio series for children....
  
  . Estelle Levy played Helen, Patricia Ryan played Mary. Maurice Brown was the announcer.
• The Adventures of Leonidas Witherall
  The Adventures of Leonidas Witherall
  The Adventures of Leonidas Witherall was a radio mystery series broadcast on Mutual in the mid-1940s.Based on the novels of Phoebe Atwood Taylor , the 30-minute dramas were produced by Roger Bower and starred Walter Hampden as Leonidas Witherall, a New England boys' school instructor in Dalton,...
  
  , mystery, MBS, 1944–1945, 30 minutes. Starring Walter Hampden
  Walter Hampden
  Walter Hampden is the artist name of Walter Hampden Dougherty was a U.S. actor and theatre manager. He was the younger brother of the American painter Paul Dougherty ....
  
   as Leonidas Witherall, Agnes Moorehead
  Agnes Moorehead
  Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences...
  
   and Ethel Remey
  Ethel Remey
  Ethel Remey was an American actress.Her most famous role was her portrayal of Alma Miller, mother of Lisa Miller on the soap opera As the World Turns. She played the role from 1963 to 1977....
  
   as Mrs. Mollett and Jack MacBryde as Police Sgt. McCloud. The announcer was Carl Caruso, with music by Milton Kane. The program was produced by Roger Bower.
• The Adventures of Maisie
  The Adventures of Maisie
  The Adventures of Maisie was a radio comedy series starring Ann Sothern as underemployed entertainer Maisie Ravier, a spin-off of Sothern's successful 1939-1947 Maisie movie series...
  
  (1945–1952)
• The Adventures of Nero Wolfe, mystery, ABC 1943-1944, 30 minutes.
• The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
  The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
  The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet is an American sitcom, airing on ABC from October 3, 1952 to September 3, 1966, starring the real life Nelson family. After a long run on radio, the show was brought to television where it continued its success, running on both radio and TV for a couple of years...
  
  (1944–1954), comedy, CBS 1944-1948, NBC 1948-1949, CBS - 1949, ABC 1949-1954, 30 minutes.
• The Adventures of Philip Marlowe
  Philip Marlowe
  Philip Marlowe is a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler in a series of novels including The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. Marlowe first appeared under that name in The Big Sleep published in 1939...
  
  , crime drama, NBC 1947, CBS 1948-1951.
• The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
  Rin Tin Tin
  Rin Tin Tin was the name given to a dog adopted from a WWI battlefield that went on to star in twenty-three Hollywood films. The name was subsequently given to several related German Shepherd dogs featured in fictional stories on film, radio and television.-Origins:The first of the line Rin Tin...
  
  , adventure, MBS, 1955, 30 minutes.
• The Adventures of Sam Spade
  The Adventures of Sam Spade
  The Adventures of Sam Spade was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The show ran for 13 episodes on ABC in 1946, for 157 episodes on CBS in 1946-1949, and finally for 51 episodes on NBC in 1949-1951...
  
  (1946–1951)
• The Adventures of the Abbotts
  Abbott Mysteries
  Abbott Mysteries was a comedy-mystery radio program adapted from the novels of Frances Crane . Initially a summer replacement for Quick As a Flash, the series was heard on Mutual and NBC between the years 1945 and 1955....
  
  mystery, NBC, 1954–1955, 30 minutes. Claudia Morgan as Jean Abbott and Les Damon as Pat Abbott.
• The Adventures of Superman (radio)
  The Adventures of Superman (radio)
  The Adventures of Superman was a long running radio serial that originally aired from 1940 to 1951, adapted from the DC Comics character. ....
  
  (1938–1951)
• The Adventures of the Thin Man
  The Adventures of the Thin Man
  The Adventures of the Thin Man radio series, initially starring Les Damon, was broadcast on all four major radio networks during the years 1941 to 1950. Claudia Morgan had the female lead role of Nora Charles throughout the program's entire nine-year run...
  
  (1941–1950)
• Afropop Worldwide (1988)
• Against the Storm
  Against the Storm
  Against the Storm is a radio daytime drama which had three separate runs over a 13-year period; the initial run was on the NBC Red Network from October 1939 to December 1942, with revivals of the series on the Mutual from August to October 1949 and ABC from October 1951 to June 1952...
  
  (1939–1952)
• The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen
  The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen
  The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen was a radio adventure serial created by writers Bob Burtt and Bill Moore, both of whom were from Kansas City, Missouri...
  
  (1933–1943)
• The Al Franken Show
  The Al Franken Show
  The Al Franken Show was the flagship talk show of the former talk radio network, Air America Radio. Hosted by Al Franken, it featured commentary and interviews arguing for left-wing positions on the issues of the day, and comically poking fun at the George W. Bush Administration. The show began as...
  
  (2004–2007)
• The Al Jolson Show
  Al Jolson
  Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....
  
  (1932-1949)
• Al Pearce
  Al Pearce
  Albert Pearce was a comedian, singer and banjoist who was a popular personality on several radio networks from 1928 to 1947....
  
  (1928–1947)
• The Aldrich Family
  The Aldrich Family
  The Aldrich Family, a popular radio teenage situation comedy , was also presented in films, television and comic books. In the radio series' well-remembered weekly opening exchange, awkward teen Henry's mother called, "Hen-reeeeeeeeeeeee! Hen-ree Al-drich!", and he responded with a breaking...
  
  (1939–1953)
• Alec Templeton Time
  Alec Templeton
  Alec Templeton was a Welsh composer, pianist and satirist.Templeton was born in Cardiff, Wales. Blind from birth, he studied at London's Royal Academy.-Radio:...
  
  (1939–1948)
• Alex Dreier
  Alex Dreier
  Alex Dreier was an American news reporter and commentator who worked with NBC Radio during the 1940s, and later with the ABC Information Radio network in the 1960s and early '70s.-Early years and broadcasting:...
  
  (1945–1963)
• Alka-Seltzer Time
  Alka-Seltzer Time
  Alka-Seltzer Time was a 15-minute radio series broadcast weekdays on both CBS and Mutual.Baritone Curt Massey starred with Martha Tilton when the program, sponsored by Alka-Seltzer, began in 1949 as Curt Massey Time with a title change to highlight the sponsor's...
  
  
• All Songs Considered
  All Songs Considered
  All Songs Considered is a weekly online multimedia program started in January 2000 by NPR's All Things Considered director Bob Boilen. At first, the show featured information and streaming audio about the songs used as bumper music on All Things Considered. The program has turned into a source of...
  
  (2000–present)
• All Things Considered
  All Things Considered
  All Things Considered is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio. It was the first news program on NPR, and is broadcast live worldwide through several outlets...
  
  (1971–present)
• AllNight with Jason Smith
  AllNight with Jason Smith
  AllNight with Jason Smith was a syndicated sports talk radio show on ESPN Radio, hosted by Jason Smith. The show was heard Sunday through Thursday from 10pm PT to1 am PT live from the studios of KSPN in Los Angeles, California, rather than the ESPN Headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut...
  
  (2005–present)
• Amazing Facts
  Amazing Facts
  Amazing Facts is an American Christian ministry. Beginning as a single radio program in 1966 it has expanded into television programming, training, health, prophecy seminars and online Bible study ministries. Its theology is largely that of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.-History:Amazing Facts...
  
  (1965–present)
• The Amazing Mr. Malone
  The Amazing Mr. Malone
  The Amazing Mr. Malone is an American radio crime drama series based on the John Malone series of mystery novels by Craig Rice...
  
  
• The Amazing Nero Wolfe, mystery, MBS 1946, 30 minutes
• America Calling
  America Calling
  America Calling, sponsored by the Greek War Relief, was broadcast February 8, 1941 on CBS, NBC, independent stations and all of Europe.Jack Benny and Bob Hope were the "co-masters of ceremonies" for a show that featured The Merry Macs; Shirley Temple, Charles Laughton, Groucho Marx and Madeleine...
  
  (1941)
• The American Album of Familiar Music
  The American Album of Familiar Music
  The American Album of Familiar Music was a radio program of popular music broadcast from 1931 to 1951, first on NBC and then on ABC. Directed by James Haupt, the show was produced by Frank and Anne Hummert, better remembered today for creating Ma Perkins and other soap operas.Sponsored by Bayer...
  
  (1931–1951)
• American Catholic Radio
• American Country Countdown
  American Country Countdown
  American Country Countdown, also known as ACC or American Country Countdown with Kix Brooks, is an internationally syndicated radio program which counts down the top 30 country songs of the previous week, from No. 30 to No. 1, according to the Mediabase country chart...
  
  (1973–2005)
• American Gold with Dick Bartley (1992–2009)
• American Farmer
  American Farmer
  American Farmer was a public affairs radio program featuring farm news and information of value to listeners in rural America.It was heard on the ABC radio network from 1945 to 1963, airing on Saturdays and heard in a variety of timeslots on different ABC affiliates throughout the day. One of the...
  
  (1945–1963)
• The American Forum of the Air
  The American Forum of the Air
  The American Forum of the Air, hosted by Theodore Granik , was a public affairs panel discussion program, the first series of its kind on radio. It aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System and NBC from 1934 to 1956. Notable guests, such as Franklin D. Roosevelt The American Forum of the Air, hosted...
  
  (1937–1956)
• American Mercury Presents: Meet the Press
  The American Mercury
  The American Mercury was an American magazine published from 1924 to 1981. It was founded as the brainchild of H. L. Mencken and drama critic George Jean Nathan. The magazine featured writing by some of the most important writers in the United States through the 1920s and 1930s...
  
  (1945–present)
• American Portraits
  American Portraits
  American Portraits was an anthology radio program which aired on NBC from 1938 to 1951.Premiering February 5, 1938 with the life of Andrew Jackson, the show featured dramatic biographical profiles of such famed figures as Walt Whitman , Mark Twain , Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham...
  
  (1938–1951)
• American Radio Warblers
  American Radio Warblers
  American Radio Warblers was a musical radio program of live canaries heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System from 1937 to 1952, airing at various times on Sunday afternoons...
  
  (1937–1952)
• The American School of the Air
  The American School of the Air
  The American School of the Air was a half-hour educational radio program presented by CBS as a public affairs teaching supplement over an 18-year period during the 1930s and 1940s. CBS followed the lead of the first School of the Air which began in 1929 at Ohio State University.Program policies for...
  
  (1930–1948)
• American Top 40
  American Top 40
  American Top 40 is an internationally syndicated, independent radio program created by Casey Kasem, Don Bustany, Tom Rounds and Ron Jacobs. Originally a production of Watermark Inc...
  
  (1970–1994, 1998–present)
• America's Town Meeting of the Air
  America's Town Meeting of the Air
  America’s Town Meeting of the Air was a public affairs discussion broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1956, mainly on the NBC Blue Network and its successor, ABC Radio...
  
  (1935–1956)
• Amos 'n' Andy
  Amos 'n' Andy
  Amos 'n' Andy is a situation comedy set in the African-American community. It was very popular in the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s on both radio and television....
  
  (1929–1960)
• The Andre Kostelanetz Show
  Andre Kostelanetz
  André Kostelanetz was a popular orchestral music conductor and arranger, one of the pioneers of easy listening music.-Biography:...
  
  (1932–1948)
• The Answer Man
  The Answer Man
  The Answer Man was a United States 15-minute radio program that aired from 1937 to 1956 on the Mutual Broadcasting System and also in syndication. It was broadcast late Sunday evening on some stations. During the 1940s, the program was sponsored by Trommer's White Label Beer. The Answer Man was...
  
  (1937–1956)
• Arch Oboler's Plays
  Arch Oboler's Plays
  Arch Oboler's Plays was a radio anthology series written, produced and directed by Arch Oboler. Minus a sponsor, it ran for one year, airing Saturday evenings on NBC from March 25, 1939 to March 23, 1940 and revived five years later on Mutual for a sustaining summer run from April 5, 1945 to...
  
  (1939–1940)
• Archie Andrews
  Archie Andrews (comics)
  Archie Andrews, created in 1941 by Vic Bloom and Bob Montana, is a fictional character in an American comic book series published by Archie Comics, as well as the long-running Archie Andrews radio series, a syndicated comic strip, The Archie Show, and Archie's Weird Mysteries.-Character and...
  
  (1943–1953)
• Arco Birthday Party
  Arco Birthday Party
  Arco Birthday Party was an NBC Red Network series heard in 1930-31. It was sponsored by Arco Publishing.The format honored the birthdays of past writers and composers...
  
  
• Are We Alone?
  Are We Alone?
  Are We Alone? is the SETI Institute's weekly science radio program, hosted by Senior Astronomer Seth Shostak and Molly Bentley, the Executive producer of the radio show....
  
  (2003–present))
• The Armstrong Theater of Today
  The Armstrong Theater of Today
  The Armstrong Theater of Today was a news and romantic drama radio program which was broadcast at noon on Saturdays by CBS from 1941 to 1954...
  
  (1941–1954)
• The Art of Living
  Norman Vincent Peale
  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale was a minister and author and a progenitor of the theory of "positive thinking".-Early life and education:...
  
  (1949–1958)
• Art Van Damme
  Art Van Damme
  Art Van Damme was a jazz accordionist.-Biography:Born in Norway, Michigan, he began playing the accordion at age nine and started classical study when his family moved to Chicago in 1934. In 1941 he joined Ben Bernie's band as an accordionist. He adapted Benny Goodman's music to the accordion...
  
  (1940–1952)
• Arthur Godfrey Time
  Arthur Godfrey
  Arthur Morton Godfrey was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname, The Old Redhead...
  
  (1945–1972)
• Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
  Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
  Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts is an American radio and television variety show which ran on CBS from 1946 until 1958...
  
  (1946–1958)
• Arthur Tracy, the Street Singer
  Arthur Tracy
  Arthur Tracy was an American vocalist, billed as The Street Singer. His performances in theatre, films and radio, along with his recordings, brought him international fame in the 1930s...
  
  (1931–1942)
• Assabe and Sabina
  Assabe and Sabina
  Assabe and Sabina was a regionally popular Pennsylvania German dialect radio program that was broadcast from radio station WSAN in Allentown, Pennsylvania in the United States from 1944 until 1955....
  
  , (1944–1955, WSAN, 15 minutes weekly)
• The Atwater Kent Hour
  The Atwater Kent Hour
  The Atwater Kent Hour was a top-rated radio concert music program heard on NBC and CBS from 1926 to 1934 with stars of the Metropolitan Opera often making appearances. Classical music was performed by a large symphony orchestra under the direction of Josef Pasternack...
  
  
• Audience of Two (2001–present)
• Aunt Jemima
  Aunt Jemima
  Aunt Jemima is a trademark for pancake flour, syrup, and other breakfast foods currently owned by the Quaker Oats Company of Chicago. The trademark dates to 1893, although Aunt Jemima pancake mix debuted in 1889. The Quaker Oats Company first registered the Aunt Jemima trademark in April 1937...
  
  (1930–1953)
• Aunt Jenny’s Real Life Stories
  Aunt Jenny’s Real Life Stories
  Aunt Jenny’s Real Life Stories was a 15-minute radio soap opera which aired from January 18, 1937 to November 16, 1956 on CBS, sponsored by Spry shortening...
  
  (1937–1956)
• Author's Playhouse
  Author's Playhouse
  Author's Playhouse was an anthology radio drama series, created by Wynn Wright, that aired on the NBC Blue Network from March 5, 1941 until October 1941. It then moved to the NBC Red Network where it was heard until June 4, 1945...
  
  (1941–1945)

• Bachelor's Children
  Bachelor's Children
  Bachelor's Children was a domestic daytime drama broadcast which originated on Chicago's WGN in 1935-36, continuing on CBS and NBC until 1946....
  
  (1935–1946)
• Back to God Hour (1948–1963)
• Back to the Bible (1939–present)
• Backstage Wife
  Backstage Wife
  Backstage Wife is an American soap opera radio program that details the travails of Mary Noble, a girl from a small town in Iowa who came to New York seeking her future....
  
  (1935–1959)
• Backtrax USA
  Backtrax USA
  Backtrax USA is a two hour radio program hosted by former WHTZ DJ Kid Kelly that premiered in 1993.The show originally highlighted hit music from the 1980s. Since 2003, however, Backtrax USA has offered a 1990s version of the show featuring hit music from this decade alongside that of the '80s...
  
  (1993–present)
• Bandstand USA (1949–1963)
• Barry Farber
  Barry Farber
  Barry M. Farber is an American conservative radio talk show host, author and language-learning enthusiast. In 2002, industry publication Talkers magazine ranked him the 9th greatest radio talk show host of all time. He has also written articles appearing in the New York Times, Reader's Digest,...
  
  (1960–present)
• Baukhage Talking (1942–1953)
• Bay State Rock with Carmelita (1986–present)
• Beaker Street
  Beaker Street
  Beaker Street with Clyde Clifford was the first underground music program broadcast regularly on a commercial AM radio station in the central US. Beaker Street began on Little Rock, Arkansas clear channel, 50,000 watt AM radio station KAAY late in 1966 and ran through 1972...
  
  (1966–present)
• Believe It Or Not
  Ripley's Believe It or Not!
  Ripley's Believe It or Not! is a franchise, founded by Robert Ripley, which deals in bizarre events and items so strange and unusual that readers might question the claims...
  
  (1930–1948)
• The Bell Telephone Hour
  The Bell Telephone Hour
  The Bell Telephone Hour is a long-run concert series which began April 29, 1940 on NBC Radio and was heard on NBC until June 30, 1958. Sponsored by Bell Telephone, it showcased the best in classical and Broadway music, reaching eight to nine million listeners each week. It continued on television...
  
  (1940–1958)
• Ben and Brian's Big Top-20 Countdown
• The Ben Bernie Show
  Ben Bernie
  Ben Bernie , born Bernard Anzelevitz, was an American jazz violinist and radio personality, often introduced as The Old Maestro. He was noted for his showmanship and memorable bits of snappy dialogue....
  
  (1931–1943)
• Benny Goodman
  Benny Goodman
  Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader; widely known as the "King of Swing".In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in America...
  
   Show (1936–1946)
• Betty and Bob (1932–1941)
• Betty Crocker
  Betty Crocker
  Betty Crocker AKA: batter witch is a cultural icon, as well as brand name and trademark of American Fortune 500 corporation General Mills. The name was first developed by the Washburn Crosby Company in 1921 as a way to give a personalized response to consumer product questions. The name Betty was...
  
   Magazine of the Air (1926–1952)
• Betty Moore (1931–1943)
• Between the Bookends (1935–1956)
• Beulah
  Beulah (series)
  The Beulah Show is an American situation-comedy series that ran on CBS radio from 1945 to 1954, and on ABC television from 1950 to 1952. The show is notable for being the first sitcom to star an African American actress.-Radio:...
  
  (1945–1954)
• The Big Show
  The Big Show (NBC Radio)
  The Big Show, an American radio variety program featuring 90 minutes of top-name comic, stage, screen and music talent, was aimed at keeping American radio in its classic era alive and well against the rapidly-growing television tide...
  
  (1950–1951)
• The Big Show
  The Big Show (sports radio show)
  The Big Show is a sports talk radio program on Boston's WEEI 850 AM. Started in August 1995, the show is hosted by former Boston Celtics play-by-play announcer Glenn Ordway and former Boston Globe columnist Michael Holley...
  
  (1995–present)
• The Big Show with John Boy and Billy
  John Boy and Billy
  John Isley and Billy James, known as John Boy & Billy, named after "John-Boy Harris and brother Bross Harris", are American radio hosts based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Their comedic morning program The John Boy & Billy Big Show broadcasts from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m...
  
  
• Big Sister (1936–1952)
• Big Town
  Big Town
  Big Town is a popular long-running radio drama series which was later adapted to both film and television and a comic book published by DC Comics.-Radio:...
  
  (1937–1952)
• The Billie Burke Show
  Billie Burke
  Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke was an American actress. She is primarily known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the musical film The Wizard of Oz. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Emily Kilbourne in Merrily We Live...
  
  (1943–1946)
• The Bing Crosby Show
  Bing Crosby
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
  
  (1931–1956)
• Blackhawk
  Blackhawk (radio)
  Blackhawk was a 1950 ABC radio series adapted from the long-run Blackhawk comic book about the team of adventurous World War II aviators....
  
  (1950)
• The Black Mass
  The Black Mass
  The Black Mass was a horror-fantasy radio drama produced by Erik Bauersfeld, a leading American radio dramatist of the post-television era. The series aired on KPFA and KPFK from 1963 to 1967, on an irregular schedule...
  
  (1960–1965)
• The Black Museum
  The Black Museum
  The Black Museum was a 1951 radio crime drama program independently produced by Harry Alan Towers and based on real-life cases from the files of Scotland Yard's Black Museum. Ira Marion was the scriptwriter, and music for the series was composed and conducted by Sidney Torch...
  
  (1951)
• Blondie
  Blondie (radio)
  Blondie is a radio situation comedy adapted from the long-run Blondie comic strip by Chic Young. The radio program had a long run on several networks from 1939 to 1950....
  
  (1939–1950)
• Blue Beetle
  Blue Beetle
  Blue Beetle is the name of three fictional superheroes that appear in American comic books published by a variety of companies since 1939.-Publication history:...
  
  (1940)
• Blue Collar Radio
  Blue Collar Radio
  The Blue Collar Radiois a syndicated country music radio format show on American terrestrial radio stations....
  
  (2005–present)
• Boake Carter
  Boake Carter
  Harold Thomas Henry Carter , aka Boake Carter, was an American national news commentator in the 1930s and early 1940s. He was born in Baku, Russian Empire , where his father, Thomas Carter, worked for a British oil company...
  
  (1933–1944)
• The Bob and Ray Show
  Bob and Ray
  Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding were an American comedy team whose career spanned five decades. Their format was typically to satirize the medium in which they were performing, such as conducting radio or television interviews, with off-the-wall dialogue presented in a generally deadpan style as...
  
  (1946–1989)
• Bob and the Showgram
  Bob and the Showgram
  Bob and the Showgram is a morning radio show based at WDCG-FM in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina that airs from 6 am to 10 am weekdays. The current cast consists of radio personalities Host Bob Dumas, Executive Producer Mike Morse, and Co-Host Erica Delong....
  
  (2004–present)
• The Bob and Tom Show (1983–present)
• The Bob Becker Program (1934–1944)
• The Bob Crosby Show
  Bob Crosby
  George Robert "Bob" Crosby was an American dixieland bandleader and vocalist, best known for his group the Bob-Cats.-Family:...
  
  (1935–1946)
• The Bob Edwards Show
  The Bob Edwards Show
  The Bob Edwards Show is an American radio program presented by Sirius XM Satellite Radio every weekday morning at 8 a.m. Eastern, with repeats at 8 a.m. Central, 7 a.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Mountain, and the next morning at 7 a.m. Eastern...
  
  (2004–present)
• The Bob Hope Show
  Bob Hope
  Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS was a British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO shows entertaining American military personnel...
  
  (1938–1958)
• Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders (1932–1955)
• Bold Venture
  Bold Venture
  Bold Venture is a 1951-1952 syndicated radio series starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Morton Fine and David Friedkin scripted the taped series for Bogart's Santana Productions....
  
  (1951–1952)
• Boston Symphony (1926–1957)
• Boston Blackie
  Boston Blackie
  Boston Blackie is a fictional character created by author Jack Boyle . Originally a jewel thief and safecracker in Boyle's novels, he became a detective in adaptations for films, radio and television—an "enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend."-Literature:Jack...
  
  (1944–1950)
• The Bottom Forty
• Box 13
  Box 13
  Box 13 was a syndicated radio series about the escapades of newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holliday, played by film star Alan Ladd. Created by Ladd's company, Mayfair Productions, Box 13 premiered in 1947...
  
  (1948–1949)
• Break the Bank (1945–1955)
• The Breakfast Club (1933–1968)
• Breakfast in Hollywood
  Breakfast in Hollywood
  Breakfast in Hollywood was a popular morning radio show created and hosted by Tom Breneman who broadcast from 1941 to 1948 on three different radio networks: NBC, ABC and Mutual. These unscripted shows were spontaneous and involved much audience participation...
  
  
• Breakfast with Burrows, CBS, 1949. Host: Abe Burrows.
• Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick (1945–1960)
• Breakfast with the Beatles
  Breakfast with the Beatles
  Breakfast with the Beatles is a popular programming segment format on FM radio in cities in the USA. The segment format typically features one or more hours of programing consisting exclusively of music by or related to The Beatles...
  
  (1976?-present)
• Breen and DeRose (1927–1939)
• Broadway Is My Beat
  Broadway Is My Beat
  Broadway Is My Beat, a radio crime drama, ran on CBS from February 27, 1949 to August 1, 1954. With Anthony Ross portraying Times Square Detective Danny Clover, the show originated from New York during its first three months on the air. For the remainder of the series, the role of Detective Danny...
  
  (1949–1954)
• The Brody Nighttime Radio Show
• Breakfast with Bubba
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
  Buck Rogers
  Anthony Rogers is a fictional character that first appeared in Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories. A sequel, The Airlords of Han, was published in the March 1929 issue....
  
  (1932–1947)
• Bulldog Drummond
  Bulldog Drummond
  Bulldog Drummond is a British fictional character, created by "Sapper", a pseudonym of Herman Cyril McNeile , and the hero of a series of novels published from 1920 to 1954.- Drummond :...
  
  (1941–1954)
• Burns and Allen
  Burns and Allen
  Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.-Vaudeville:...
  
  (1932–1950)

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• Cal Tinney (1938–1953)
• California Melodies (1932–1944)
• Calling America (1939–1963)
• Camel Caravan
  Camel Caravan
  Camel Caravan was a musical variety radio program, sponsored by Camel cigarettes, that aired on NBC Radio and CBS Radio from 1933 to 1954...
  
  (1933–1954)
• The Campbell Playhouse
  The Campbell Playhouse
  The Campbell Playhouse was a CBS radio drama series directed by and starring Orson Welles. Produced by John Houseman, it was a sponsored continuation of the Mercury Theatre on the Air...
  
  (1938–1941)
• Campusanity (2005–present)
• Can You Top This?
  Can You Top This?
  Can You Top This? was a popular radio panel show in which comedians told jokes. The unrehearsed program, sponsored at one point by Colgate-Palmolive, was created by veteran vaudevillian "Senator" Edward Ford, who claimed he was taking part in a joke session at a New York theatrical club when he...
  
  (1940–1954)
• Capital Chat
• Captain Midnight
  Captain Midnight
  Captain Midnight is a U.S. adventure franchise first broadcast as a radio serial from 1938 to 1949. Sponsored by the Skelly Oil Company, the radio program was the creation of radio scripters Wilfred G. Moore and Robert M...
  
  (1940–1949)
• Captain Tim Healy’s Stamp Club (1933–1945)
• Car Talk
  Car Talk
  Car Talk is a radio talk show broadcast weekly on National Public Radio stations throughout the United States and elsewhere. Its subjects are automobiles and repair, and it often takes humorous turns...
  
  (1977–present)
• The Carnation Contented Hour (1932–1951)
• Carson Robinson's Buckaroo (1932–1949)
• Casey, Crime Photographer
  Casey, Crime Photographer (radio)
  Casey, Crime Photographer, known by a variety of titles on radio was a media franchise from the 1930s to the 1960s. The character was the creation of novelist George Harmon Coxe...
  
  (1943–1955)
• The Catholic Hour (1929–1956)
• Cavalcade of America
  Cavalcade of America
  Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on...
  
  (1935–1953)
• CBS Church of the Air (1931–1956)
• CBS Radio Mystery Theater
  CBS Radio Mystery Theater
  CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS affiliates from 1974 to 1982....
  
  (1974–1982)
• CBS Radio Workshop
• Challenge of the Yukon
  Challenge of the Yukon
  Challenge of the Yukon was a radio series that began on Detroit's station WXYZ , and an example of a Northern genre story. The series was first heard on February 3, 1938...
  
  (aka Sergeant Preston of the Yukon) (1938–1955)
• The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street
  The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street
  The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street was a musical variety radio program which began on the Blue Network in 1940. The magazine Radio Life described it as "one of radio's strangest offsprings... a wacky, strictly hep tongue-in-cheek burlesque of opera and symphony."It was a weekly...
  
  (1940–1952)
• Champion Spark Plug Hour
  Champion Spark Plug Hour
  Champion Spark Plug Hour was a music radio program sponsored by Champion. It was broadcast on New York's WJZ and WGY during the late 1920s and early 1930s. An entry in The Chronicle-Telegram for October 4, 1926, indicates the show aired on Tuesday afternoons at 5:00pm...
  
  
• Chandu the Magician
  Chandu the Magician (radio)
  Chandu the Magician, one of the longest running radio adventure serials, was heard on several different networks and aired in two distinctly different series, one in the 1930s and a revival 12 years later in the 1940s and 1950s. The series was created by Harry A. Earnshaw and Raymond R...
  
  
• The Chase and Sanborn Hour
  The Chase and Sanborn Hour
  The Chase and Sanborn Hour was the umbrella title for a series of US comedy and variety radio shows, sponsored by Standard Brands' Chase and Sanborn Coffee, usually airing Sundays on NBC from 8pm to 9pm during the years 1929 to 1948....
  
  (1938–1948)
• ChatterBox Video Game Radio (2004–present)
• Cheerio (1927–1940)
• Chesterfield Supper Club (1944–1950)
• Chicago Theatre of the Air (1940–1954)
• Chicken Man
  Chicken Man (radio series)
  Chickenman is an American radio series that spoofs comic book heroes. It was created in the mid 1960s by Dick Orkin, who at the time was a production director at WCFL in Chicago, Illinois. Its famous catch-phrase is, "He's everywhere! He's everywhere!"...
  
  (1966-?)
• Chuck Cecil’s Swinging Years (1956 on)
• Church of the Air (1937–1963)
• The Cinnamon Bear
  The Cinnamon Bear
  The Cinnamon Bear is an old time radio program produced by Transco , based in Hollywood, California. The series was specifically designed to be listened to six days a week between Thanksgiving and Christmas....
  
  
• The Cisco Kid
  The Cisco Kid
  The Cisco Kid refers to a character found in numerous film, radio, television and comic book series based on the fictional Western character created by O. Henry in his 1907 short story "The Caballero's Way", published in the collection Heart of the West...
  
  (1942–1954)
• Cities Service Concerts
  Cities Service Concerts
  The Cities Service Concerts were musical broadcasts which had a long three-decade run on radio from 1925 to 1956, encompassing a variety of vocalists and musicians.The concerts began with trial broadcasts in the New York area during 1925 and 1926...
  
  (1927–1956)
• Clara, Lu, and Em
  Clara, Lu, and Em
  Clara, Lu, and Em was radio's first network daytime soap opera, beginning June 16, 1930 over WGN-AM Chicago, Illinois. It continued through the 1930s and early 1940s on the NBC Blue Network and CBS, finally airing as a syndicated series in 1945...
  
  (1931–1945)
• The Clark Howard Show
  Clark Howard
  Clark Howard , is a popular U.S. talk radio host of the nationally syndicated consumer advocate program The Clark Howard Show. The show covers consumer and financial news, with advice on how to spend less, save more and avoid rip-offs...
  
  (2003–present)
• Cleveland Symphony Orchestra (1933–1947)
• The Clicquot Club Eskimos
  The Clicquot Club Eskimos
  The Clicquot Club Eskimos was a popular musical variety radio show, first heard in 1923, featuring a banjo orchestra directed by Harry Reser. A popular ginger ale, Clicquot Club, was Canada Dry's main rival...
  
  (1926–1936)
• Cloak and Dagger
  Cloak and Dagger (radio)
  Cloak and Dagger was an NBC radio series, a foreign intrigue adventure adapted from the book Cloak and Dagger by Corey Ford and Alastair MacBain.A syndicated transcription package produced by the Louis G...
  
  (1950)
• Club Matinee (1937–1946)
• Club Time (1945–1954)
• Coast to Coast AM
  Coast to Coast AM
  Coast to Coast AM is a North American late-night syndicated radio talk show that deals with a variety of topics, but most frequently ones that relate to either the paranormal or conspiracy theories. It was created by Art Bell and is distributed by Premiere Radio Networks. The program currently...
  
  with George Noory
  George Noory
  George Ralph Noory is a Lebanese-American radio talk show host.As of 2010, he is the weekday host of the late-night radio talk show Coast to Coast AM. He is heard across the United States and Canada on many AM and FM stations as well as on XM Satellite Radio. His show is one of the most listened...
  
   and Ian Punnett
  Ian Punnett
  Case Ian Punnett is an American radio broadcaster.Punnett hosts a morning show, Ian and Margery, with his wife on KTMY in Minneapolis-St...
  
   or Art Bell
  Art Bell
  Arthur W. "Art" Bell, III is an American broadcaster and author, known primarily as one of the founders and the original host of the paranormal-themed radio program Coast to Coast AM. He also created and formerly hosted its companion show, Dreamland...
  
   and George Knapp
  George Knapp (journalist)
  George Knapp is an award-winning American investigative journalist.A longtime fixture in Las Vegas media, he works at KLAS-TV and is also a frequent host of the Sunday night/Monday morning Coast To Coast AM syndicated radio show...
  
   on weekends. Formerly The Art Bell Show. (1978–present)
• Coast to Coast on a Bus (1927–1948)
• Coke Time (1930–1956)
• Colgate Sports Newsreel (1939–1957)
• Cook’s Travelogue (1926–1939)
• CounterSpin
  CounterSpin
  CounterSpin is a weekly, half-hour radio program produced by the progressive media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting . It is hosted by Janine Jackson, Steve Rendall, and Peter Hart, and describes itself as offering "a critical examination of the major stories every week exposes what...
  
  (2004–present)
• Counterspy
  Counterspy (radio series)
  Counterspy was an espionage drama radio series that aired on the NBC Blue Network and Mutual from May 18, 1942 to November 29, 1957....
  
  (1942–1957)
• The Couple Next Door
  Ethel and Albert
  Ethel and Albert was a radio and television comedy series about a married couple, Ethel and Albert Arbuckle, living in the small town of Sandy Harbor...
  
  (1937–1960)
• Crap From The Past (1992–present)
• Crime Classics
  Crime Classics
  Crime Classics was a U. S. radio docudrama which aired as a sustaining series over CBS from June 15, 1953, to June 30, 1954.Created, produced, and directed by radio actor/director Elliott Lewis, the program was a historical true crime series, examining crimes and murders from the past...
  
  (1953–1954)
• Crime Does Not Pay
  Crime Does Not Pay (radio)
  Crime Does Not Pay was an anthology radio crime drama series based on MGM's short film series which began in 1935 with Crime Does Not Pay: Buried Loot. The shows were transcribed at MGM's New York station, WMGM....
  
  (1949–1952)
• Cruisin' America With Cousin Brucie (1986–1992)
• Curt Massey (1943–1962)
• Curtain Time (1938–1950)
• Curtis Institute of Music (1929–1942)

• DVD Talk Radio
• The Dan Patrick Show
  The Dan Patrick Show
  The Dan Patrick Show is a syndicated sports talk show hosted by former ESPN personality Dan Patrick. It is currently produced by DirecTV Sports Group and is syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks. The three-hour program broadcasts live every day beginning at 9 a.m. Eastern/6 a.m. Pacific time on Fox...
  
  (1999–present)
• Dark Fantasy (1941–1942)
• A Date with Judy
  A Date with Judy
  A Date with Judy was a comedy radio series aimed at a teenage audience which had a long run from 1941 to 1950.The show began as a summer replacement for Bob Hope's show, sponsored by Pepsodent and airing on NBC from June 24 to September 16, 1941, with 14-year-old Ann Gillis in the title role...
  
  (1941–1950)
• Dateline (1943–1963)
• Dave & Darren (2004–present)
• The Dave Ramsey Show
  The Dave Ramsey Show (radio program)
  The Dave Ramsey Show is a three-hour, self-syndicated radio program and podcast that airs Monday through Friday from 2-5 EST. It is primarily broadcast from Brentwood, Tennessee, though often during the summer it is broadcast via remote from Ramsey's lake house...
  
  
• Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw
  Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw
  The Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw Show is a long-running morning radio show in the San Diego, California area. The show is named for its three main hosts, Dave Rickards; Shelly Dunn; and Cookie "Chainsaw" Randolph, known as the "Dean of American Sportscasters".The format of the show combines humor,...
  
  
• David Harum
  David Harum
  David Harum; A Story of American Life is a best-selling novel of 1899 whose principal legacy is the colloquial use of the term horse trading.-Literary significance and criticism:...
  
  
• The David Lawrence Show
• The David Lee Roth Show
  The David Lee Roth Show
  The David Lee Roth Show was a short-lived syndicated morning radio program in 2006.-History:It began airing on January 3, 2006. The show was produced by CBS Radio as part of its Free FM format, and was based out of WFNY-FM in New York City...
  
  (2006)
• Death Valley Days
  Death Valley Days
  Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was broadcast on radio until 1945. It continued from 1952 to 1975 as a syndicated television series...
  
  (1930–1944)
• Deep Space
• Delilah
• Democracy Now!
  Democracy Now!
  Democracy Now! and its staff have received several journalism awards, including the Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television; the George Polk Award for its 1998 radio documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, on the Chevron Corporation and the deaths of...
  
  (1996-present)
• Dick Tracy
  Dick Tracy
  Dick Tracy is a comic strip featuring Dick Tracy, a hard-hitting, fast-shooting and intelligent police detective. Created by Chester Gould, the strip made its debut on October 4, 1931, in the Detroit Mirror. It was distributed by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate...
  
  
• Dick Clark's Rock Roll and Remember (1982–2006)
• Dick Clark National Music Survey  (1981–1986)
• Dimension X
  Dimension X
  Dimension X was an NBC radio program broadcast on an unsponsored, sustaining basis from April 8, 1950 to September 29, 1951. The first 13 episodes were broadcast live, and the remainder were pre-recorded...
  
  (1950–1951)
• The Dinah Shore Show
  Dinah Shore
  Dinah Shore was an American singer, actress, and television personality...
  
  (1939–1956)
• Does He Take Sugar?
• Don and Mike
  Don and Mike
  The Don and Mike Show was an American nationally syndicated radio talk show hosted by the shock jocks Don Geronimo and Mike O'Meara, which aired from December 1985 through April 2008, when Geronimo retired in order to focus on his personal life. After Geronimo's retirement, the remaining cast...
  
  (1985–present)
• Don’t You Believe It (1938–1947)
• Doo-Wop Express
• Dorothy Lamour Show
  Dorothy Lamour
  Dorothy Lamour was an American film actress. She is best remembered for appearing in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope .-Early life:Lamour was born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton in New Orleans, Louisiana, the daughter of Carmen Louise Dorothy...
  
  (1935–1949) (1935)
• Double or Nothing (1940–1953)
• Dragnet (1949–1957)
• Dr. Christian
  Dr. Christian
  Dr. Christian was a long-running radio series with Jean Hersholt in the title role. It aired on CBS from 1937 to 1954.After Hersholt portrayed the character Dr. John Luke, based on Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, the obstetrician who delivered and cared for the Dionne Quintuplets, in the 20th Century Fox...
  
  (1937–1954)
• Dr. Demento
  Dr. Demento
  Barret Eugene Hansen , better known as Dr. Demento, is a radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present....
  
  (1974–present)
• Dr. Rock & the Medicine Show (2003–present)
• Dr. I.Q. (1939–1950)
• Dramas of Youth (1933-1940s)
• Drene Time
  Drene Time
  Drene Time was a 30-minute radio variety show starring Don Ameche and singer-actress Frances Langford as co-hosts, airing on NBC's Sunday night schedule in 1946-47....
  
  
• Drew Mariani
• Drew & Mike
• The Dudley & Bob Show
  The Dudley & Bob Show
  The Dudley & Bob Show is a weekday-morning comedic radio talk show airing on 93.7 KLBJ-FM, from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. CT in Austin, Texas that consistently ranks among the city's top-rated drive-time shows....
  
  (1994–present)
• Duffy's Tavern
  Duffy's Tavern
  Duffy's Tavern was a popular American radio situation comedy which ran for a decade on several networks , concluding with the December 28, 1951 broadcast....
  
  (1941–1951)
• Dr. Laura
  Laura Schlessinger
  Laura Catherine Schlessinger is an American talk radio host, socially conservative commentator and author. Her radio program consists mainly of her responses to callers' requests for personal advice and has occasionally featured her short monologues on social and political topics...
  
  (1994–present)
• Loveline
  Loveline
  Loveline is a syndicated radio call-in program in North America, offering medical and relationship advice to listeners, often with the assistance of guests, typically actors and musicians. Its flagship station is KROQ-FM in Los Angeles....
  
    with Dr. Drew (1983–present)

• ESPN Radio College GameDay Road Tour (2000–present)
• Earplay
  Earplay
  Earplay was the longest-running of the formal series of radio drama anthologies on National Public Radio, heard from 1972 into the 1990s. It approached radio drama as an art form with scripts written by such leading playwrights as Edward Albee, Arthur Kopit, Archibald MacLeish and David...
  
  (1970s-1980s)
• Earth & Sky
  Earth & Sky
  Earth & Sky is a daily radio series presenting information about science and nature. It began broadcasting in 1991. Earth & Sky is the creation of producers Deborah Byrd and Joel Block, also the hosts, whose program "Star Date" began broadcasting in the U.S...
  
  (1991–present)
• Eastman School of Music Symphony (1932–1942)
• Easy Aces
  Easy Aces
  Easy Aces, a long-running American serial radio comedy , was trademarked by the low-keyed drollery of creator and writer Goodman Ace and his wife, Jane, as an urbane, put-upon realtor and his malaprop-prone wife...
  
  (1931–1945)
• EcoTalk
  EcoTalk
  EcoTalk is a radio show on the Air America Radio network, hosted by Betsy Rosenberg. Rosenberg is a long-time radio journalist who has focused on environmental issues for the past eight years...
  
  
• Ed Norris Show
• The Ed Schultz Show
  The Ed Schultz Show
  The Ed Schultz Show is a radio program hosted by Ed Schultz. It was formerly broadcast from KFGO in Fargo, North Dakota. It is heard on a network of over 100 stations , including seven of the 10 largest radio markets...
  
  (2004–present)
• Eddie Michaux Congregation (1933–1953)
• The Eddy Duchin Show
  Eddy Duchin
  Eddy Duchin was an American popular pianist and bandleader of the 1930s and 1940s, famous for his engaging onstage personality, his elegant piano style, and his fight against leukemia.-Early career:...
  
  (1933–1957)
• The Eddy Howard Orchestra
  Eddy Howard
  Eddy Howard was an American vocalist and bandleader who was popular during the 1940s and 1950s.-Biography:...
  
  (1947–1956)
• The Edgar Bergern/Charlie McCarthy Show
  Edgar Bergen
  Edgar John Bergen was an American actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquist.-Early life:...
  
  (1937–1956)
• Edward R. Murrow
  Edward R. Murrow
  Edward Roscoe Murrow, KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss, and Alexander Kendrick...
  
  (1938–1959)
• El Vacilón de la Mañana
  El Vacilón de la Mañana
  El Vacilón de la Mañana is New York City's top Spanish language morning radio show. It is broadcast from La Mega and it is syndicated live to a number of different markets in the US such as Providence, Rhode Island; Miami and Orlando, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Hartford, Connecticut; and Puerto...
  
  (1993–present)
• Eleanor Roosevelt
  Eleanor Roosevelt
  Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international...
  
  (1932–1949)
• Elliot in the Morning
  Elliot in the Morning
  Elliot in the Morning is a morning radio talk show hosted by DJ Elliot Segal. It airs weekdays from "5:48 until 10-something" on WWDC-FM in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and on WRXL in Richmond, Virginia...
  
  (1999–present)
• Elmer Davis
  Elmer Davis
  Elmer Davis was a well-known news reporter, author, the Director of the United States Office of War Information during World War II and a Peabody Award recipient.-Education and early career:...
  
   News (1939–1955)
• Emperor Rosko Show
• Enna Jettick Melodies (1928–1939)
• Escape
  Escape (radio program)
  Escape was radio's leading anthology series of high-adventure radio dramas, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954. Since the program did not have a regular sponsor like Suspense, it was subjected to frequent schedule shifts and lower production budgets, although Richfield Oil signed...
  
  (1947–1954)
• Eternal Light (1946-1970s)
• Ethel and Albert
  Ethel and Albert
  Ethel and Albert was a radio and television comedy series about a married couple, Ethel and Albert Arbuckle, living in the small town of Sandy Harbor...
  
  
• The Eveready Hour
  The Eveready Hour
  The Eveready Hour was the first commercially sponsored variety program in the history of broadcasting. It premiered December 4, 1923 on WEAF Radio in New York. Radio's first sponsored network program. it was paid for by the National Carbon Company, which at the time owned Eveready Battery...
  
  (1923–1930)

• Face the Nation
  Face the Nation
  Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer is an American Sunday-morning political interview show which premiered on the CBS television network on November 7, 1954. It is one of the longest-running news programs in the history of television...
  
  (1954–1970)
• Faith in Our Time (1945–1954)
• The Falcon (1943–1954)
• Falcon's Rock Block (2007–present)
• Family Theater
  Family Theater
  Family Theater was a dramatic anthology radio show which aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the United States from February 13, 1947 to September 11, 1957.-Production background:...
  
  (1947–1957)
• Famous Jury Trials (1936–1949)
• Father Coughlin
  Charles Coughlin
  Father Charles Edward Coughlin was a controversial Roman Catholic priest at Royal Oak, Michigan's National Shrine of the Little Flower church. He was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience, as more than thirty million tuned to his weekly broadcasts during the...
  
  (1930–1942)
• Father Knows Best
  Father Knows Best
  Father Knows Best is an American radio and television comedy series which portrayed a middle class family life in the Midwest. It was created by writer Ed James in the 1940s.-Radio:...
  
  
• The Fat Man
  The Fat Man (radio)
  The Fat Man, a popular radio show during the 1940s and early 1950s was a detective drama based on characters by Dashiell Hammett. It starred J...
  
  
• The FBI in Peace and War
  The FBI in Peace and War
  The FBI in Peace and War was a radio crime drama inspired by Frederick Lewis Collins' book, The FBI in Peace and War.The idea for the show came from Louis Pelletier who wrote many of the scripts. Among the show's other writers were Jack Finke, Ed Adamson and Collins...
  
  (1944–1958)
• Fibber McGee and Molly
  Fibber McGee and Molly
  Fibber McGee and Molly was an American radio comedy series which maintained its popularity over decades. It premiered on NBC in 1935 and continued until its demise in 1959, long after radio had ceased to be the dominant form of entertainment in American popular culture.-Husband and wife in real...
  
  (1935–1956)
• Fireside chats
  Fireside chats
  The fireside chats were a series of thirty evening radio addresses given by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944.-Origin of radio address:...
  
  (1933–1944)
• The Firefighters (quarter hour children's radio show)
• The First Nighter Program
  The First Nighter Program
  The First Nighter Program was a long-running radio anthology comedy-drama series broadcast from 1930 to 1953. The host was Mr. First Nighter .The show's opening recreated the aural atmosphere of a Broadway opening. Before each week's drama began, Mr...
  
  (1930–1953)
• The Five Mysteries Program
  The Five Mysteries Program
  The Five Mysteries Program was an audience participation radio series broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System from August 10, 1947 to March 27, 1950...
  
  
• The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour
  The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour
  The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour was a pioneering musical variety radio program broadcast on NBC from 1929 to 1936, when it became The Royal Gelatin Hour, continuing until 1939...
  
  (1929–36)
• Floydian Slip (1989, 1994–present)
• Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel
  Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel
  Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel is a situation comedy radio show starring two of the Marx Brothers, Groucho and Chico, and written primarily by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman. It was originally broadcast in the United States on the National Broadcasting Company's Blue Network beginning November 28,...
  
  (1930s)
• The Ford Sunday Evening Hour
  The Ford Sunday Evening Hour
  The Ford Sunday Evening Hour was an hour-long concert music radio series, sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, which was broadcast from 1934 to 1946, with a hiatus from 1942 to 1945...
  
  (1934–1946)
• Fort Laramie
  Fort Laramie (radio)
  Fort Laramie was a radio Western series that aired Sunday afternoons at 5:30pm on CBS from January 22 to October 28, 1956.Produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell, this Western drama depicted life at old Fort Laramie during the 19th Century. The 41 episodes starred Raymond Burr as Lee Quince,...
  
  (1956)
• Foreign Policy Association
  Foreign Policy Association
  The Foreign Policy Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring the American public to learn more about the world. Founded in 1918, it serves as a catalyst for developing awareness, understanding of, and providing informed opinions on global issues...
  
   Program (1927–1940)
• Frances Adair (1935–1938, NBC, with soprano Frances Adair)
• Frank and Ernest (1949–1963)
• The Fred Allen Show
  Fred Allen
  Fred Allen was an American comedian whose absurdist, topically pointed radio show made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the so-called classic era of American radio.His best-remembered gag was his long-running mock feud with friend and fellow comedian Jack Benny, but it...
  
  (1932–1949)
• The Fred Waring Show
  Fred Waring
  Fredrick Malcolm Waring was a popular musician, bandleader and radio-television personality, sometimes referred to as "America's Singing Master" and "The Man Who Taught America How to Sing." He was also a promoter, financial backer and namesake of the Waring Blendor, the first modern electric...
  
  (1931–1957)
• The Freddy Martin Orchestra (1932–1947)
• Frederick William Wile (1926–1936)
• Fry Night Fights (1937–1956)
• Front Page Farrell (1941–1954)
• Frontier Gentleman
  Frontier Gentleman
  Frontier Gentleman was a radio Western series heard on CBS from February 2 to November 16, 1958, initially heard Sunday afternoons at 2:30pm through March when it moved to 7pm....
  
  (1958)
• Fulton Lewis, Jr. (1937–1956)

• Gabriel Heatter
  Gabriel Heatter
  Gabriel Heatter was an American radio commentator whose World War II-era sign-on became both his catchphrase and his caricature...
  
  (1935–1960)
• Galen Drake Show (1945–1960)
• Gamenight
• Gang Busters
  Gang Busters
  Gang Busters was an American dramatic radio program heralded as "the only national program that brings you authentic police case histories." It premiered as G-Men, sponsored by Chevrolet, on July 20, 1935.-History:...
  
  (1935–1957)
• Garden Gate (1941–1956)
• Gasoline Alley
  Gasoline Alley
  Gasoline Alley is a comic strip created by Frank King and currently distributed by Tribune Media Services. First published November 24, 1918, it is the second longest running comic strip in the US and has received critical accolades for its influential innovations...
  
  
• The General Mills Radio Adventure Theater
  The General Mills Radio Adventure Theater
  The General Mills Radio Adventure Theater was a 1977 anthology radio drama series with Tom Bosley as host. Himan Brown, already producing the CBS Radio Mystery Theater for the network, added this twice-weekly anthology radio drama series to his workload in 1977...
  
  (1977)
• General Motors Concerts (1934–1957)
• The George Jessel Show
  George Jessel (actor)
  George Albert Jessel was an American illustrated song "model," actor, singer, songwriter, and Academy Award-winning movie producer. He was famous in his lifetime as a multitalented comedic entertainer, achieving a level of recognition that transcended his limited roles in movies...
  
  (1933–1954)
• Ghost Stories (1935–1951)
• The Ginny Simms Show (1942–1951)
• The Glenn Beck Program
  Glenn Beck
  Glenn Edward Lee Beck is an American conservative radio host, vlogger, author, entrepreneur, political commentator and former television host. He hosts the Glenn Beck Program, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks...
  
  (2000–present)
• The Goldbergs
  The Goldbergs
  The Goldbergs is a comedy-drama broadcast from 1929 to 1946 on American radio, and from 1949 to 1956 on American television. It was adapted into a 1948 play, Me and Molly, and a 1973 Broadway musical, Molly.-Radio:...
  
  (1929–1947)
• The Gospel Hour (1939–present)
• The Gospel Singer (1933–1942)
• Grand Central Station
  Grand Central Station (radio)
  Grand Central Station was an American anthology radio series which had a long run on the major networks from 1937 to 1954. Produced by Himan Brown, Martin Horrell and others, the story content ranged from romantic comedies to lightweight dramas....
  
  (1937–1953)
• Grand Hotel (1933–1945)
• Grand Ole Opry
  Grand Ole Opry
  The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, that has presented the biggest stars of that genre since 1925. It is also among the longest-running broadcasts in history since its beginnings as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM-AM...
  
  (1925–present)
• Grand Slam (1943–1953)
• Grandpa and the Toad (1958–1963)
• The Great Gildersleeve
  The Great Gildersleeve
  The Great Gildersleeve , initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first Introduced to...
  
  (1941–1957)
• The Greatest Story Ever Told (1947–1956)
• The Great Sounds with Ray Otis (1986–90)
• The Green Hornet
  The Green Hornet
  The Green Hornet is an American radio and television masked vigilante created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, with input from radio director James Jewell, in 1936. Since his radio debut in the 1930s, the Green Hornet has appeared in numerous serialized dramas in a wide variety of media...
  
  (1938–1952)
• The Guiding Light (1937–1952)
• Gunsmoke
  Gunsmoke
  Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....
  
  (1952–1961)
• Gutsy geeks
  Gutsy geeks
  Gutsy Geeks is a weekly radio show dedicated to explaining the benefits that the "Average Computer User" would experience by switching to Free and Open Source software. The show is designed to help introduce people to GNU/Linux and FOSS. These open technologies help listeners save money while...
  
  (2001–present)
• Guy Lombardo Show
  Guy Lombardo
  Gaetano Alberto "Guy" Lombardo was a Canadian-American bandleader and violinist.Forming "The Royal Canadians" in 1924 with his brothers Carmen, Lebert, and Victor and other musicians from his hometown, Lombardo led the group to international success, billing themselves as creating "The Sweetest...
  
  (1929–1957)
• Gznollo (1958–1975)

• H. R. Baukhage (1942–1953)
• The Halls of Ivy
  The Halls of Ivy
  The Halls of Ivy is an NBC radio sitcom that ran from 1950-1952. It was created by Fibber McGee & Molly co-creator/writer Don Quinn before being adapted into a CBS television comedy produced by ITC Entertainment and Television Programs of America...
  
  (1949–1952)
• H. V. Kaltenborn News (1930–1953)
• The Happiness Boys
  The Happiness Boys
  The Happiness Boys was a popular radio program of the early 1920s. It featured the vocal duo of tenor Billy Jones and bass/baritone Ernie Hare who sang novelty songs.-Career:...
  
  
• The Happy-Go-Lucky Hour
  Al Pearce
  Albert Pearce was a comedian, singer and banjoist who was a popular personality on several radio networks from 1928 to 1947....
  
  
• Happy Jack Turner (1932–1941)
• Harry Wismer Sports
  Harry Wismer
  Harry Wismer was a sports broadcaster and charter owner of the New York Titans franchise in the American Football League.-Early years:...
  
  (1945–1955)
• Harvest of Stars
  Harvest of Stars
  Harvest of Stars was a concert music series, produced and directed by Glen Heisch and starring James Melton. Sponsored by International Harvester, the program was broadcast on NBC and CBS from 1945 to 1950....
  
  (1945–1950)
• Have Gun, Will Travel (1957–1963)
• Hawaii Calls
  Hawaii Calls
  Hawaii Calls was a radio program that ran from 1935 through 1975 that featured live Hawaiian music conducted by Harry Owens, the composer of "Sweet Leilani"...
  
  
• Heartbeat Theatre (1956–1977)
• Hedda Hopper
  Hedda Hopper
  Hedda Hopper was an American actress and gossip columnist, whose long-running feud with friend turned arch-rival Louella Parsons became at least as notorious as many of Hopper's columns.-Early life:...
  
  (1939–1951)
• Helen Hayes Theater (1935–1946)
• The Henry Morgan Show
  Henry Morgan (comedian)
  Henry Morgan was an American humorist. He is remembered best in two modern media: radio, on which he first became familiar as a barbed but often self-deprecating satirist, and on television, where he was a regular and cantankerous panelist for the game show I've Got a Secret...
  
  (1940–1951)
• Here on Earth - Radio Without Borders (2003- )
• Here, There, and Everywhere (2005–present)
• The Herd with Colin Cowherd
  The Herd with Colin Cowherd
  The Herd with Colin Cowherd is a sports talk radio show hosted by Colin Cowherd and broadcast on ESPN Radio from Bristol, Connecticut. The show is heard Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. ET until 1 p.m. ET on most ESPN Radio stations and is simulcasted on ESPNews...
  
  
• The Hermit's Cave
  The Hermit's Cave
  The Hermit's Cave was a radio horror anthology series, syndicated by WJR Detroit in the mid-1930s, sponsored by Olga Coal after the first two years. As the wind howled, the ancient Hermit narrated his horror fantasies from his cave...
  
  (1935? – 1944)
• Hilltop House (1937–1955)
• Hobby Lobby (1937–1944)
• Hot and Fresh (2006–present)
• The Hour of Charm (1935–1948)
• Hour of Decision (1953–present)
• Hour of Faith (1942–1956)
• House of Glass (1935–1954)
• Housekeeper’s Chat (1926–1944)
• Howard K. Smith
  Howard K. Smith
  Howard Kingsbury Smith was an American journalist, radio reporter, television anchorman, political commentator, and film actor. He was one of the original Edward R. Murrow boys.-Early life:...
  
  (1945–1956)
• The Howard Stern Radio Show
  Howard Stern
  Howard Allan Stern is an American radio personality, television host, author, and actor best known for his radio show, which was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2005. He gained wide recognition in the 1990s where he was labeled a "shock jock" for his outspoken and sometimes controversial style...
  
   (until January 2006)
• Howie Chizek
  Howie Chizek
  Howard Alan Chizek is an American radio personality and former public address announcer.-Radio:Howie Chizek hosts a talk radio show in the Akron, Ohio market on WNIR FM-100.1. Since 1972, Chizek has had the longest running no guest talk radio show in America. Throughout that time, the show has...
  
  (1972–present)
• The Hilary Duff Show (1987–1990)

I

• I Love a Mystery
  I Love a Mystery
  I Love a Mystery was a radio drama series about three friends who ran a detective agency and traveled the world in search of adventure. Distinguished by the high octane scripting of Carlton E...
  
  (1939–1952)
• I Love Lucy
  I Love Lucy
  I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on the Columbia Broadcasting System...
  
  (1952)
• I Was a Communist for the FBI
  I Was a Communist for the FBI
  I Was a Communist for the FBI is the name of a series of stories written by Matt Cvetic that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. The stories were later turned into a best-selling book, an American espionage thriller radio series and motion picture in the early 1950s.The story follows Cvetic, who...
  
  (1952–1954)
• Indie A-Z (2008-)
• Information Please
  Information Please
  Information Please was an American radio quiz show, created by Dan Golenpaul, which aired on NBC from May 17, 1938 to April 22, 1951. The title was the contemporary phrase used to request from telephone operators what was then called "information" but is now called "directory assistance".The series...
  
  (1938–1948)
• Inner Sanctum Mysteries
  Inner Sanctum Mysteries
  Inner Sanctum Mysteries, a popular old-time radio program that aired from January 7, 1941 to October 5, 1952, was created by producer Himan Brown. A total of 526 episodes were broadcast.-Horror hosts:...
  
  (1941–1952)
• Invitation to Learning (1940–1963)
• The Ipana Troubadors
  The Ipana Troubadors
  The Ipana Troubadors was a musical variety radio program which began in New York on WEAF in 1923. In actuality, the Troubadors were the Sam Lanin Orchestra...
  
  
• Irene Beasley (1930–1939)
• Irene Rich Show (1933–1944)
• Irving Aaronson
  Irving Aaronson
  Irving A. Aaronson was an American jazz pianist and big band leader.Born in New York, USA, Irving Aaronson learned piano from Alfred Sendry at the David Mannes School for music...
  
   Orchestra (1935, NBC)
• It Pays to Be Ignorant
  It Pays to Be Ignorant
  It Pays to Be Ignorant was a radio comedy show which maintained its popularity during a nine-year run on three networks for such sponsors as Philip Morris, Chrysler, and DeSoto....
  
  
• It Pays to Be Married (1944–1955)
• It’s Your Business (1944–1956)

J

• Jack Armstrong the All American Boy (1933–1950)
• The Jack Benny Program
  The Jack Benny Program
  The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, is a radio-TV comedy series that ran for more than three decades and is generally regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century American comedy.-Cast:*Jack Benny - Himself...
  
  (1932–1955)
• Jack Berch and His Boys (1935–1952)
• The Jack Carson Show (1943–1956)
• The Jack Eigen Show (1951–1971)
• Jack Kirkwood Show (1943–1953)
• The Jack Pearl Show (1932–1951)
• The Jan Garber Orchestra (1934–1967)
• The Jane Pickens Show (1948–1957)
• Jean Shepherd
  Jean Shepherd
  Jean Parker Shepherd was an American raconteur, radio and TV personality, writer and actor who was often referred to by the nickname Shep....
  
  (1948–1977)
• The Jim Bohannon Show
  Jim Bohannon
  James E. "Jim" Bohannon is an American broadcaster who has worked in both television and radio.During the 1980s he was a fill-in for Larry King when King had his popular nighttime national radio program. He also does much work with the Smithsonian Associates...
  
  (1993–present)
• The Jim Backus Show
  Jim Backus
  James Gilmore "Jim" Backus was a radio, television, film, and voice actor. Among his most famous roles are the voice of Mr...
  
  (1947–1958)
• The Jim Rome Show
  The Jim Rome Show
  The Jim Rome Show is a sports radio talk show hosted by Jim Rome. It airs live for three hours each weekday from 9 a.m. to noon Pacific. The show is produced in Los Angeles, California, syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks, and can be heard on more than 200 affiliate radio stations in the U.S...
  
  (1996-present)
• The Jimmy Wakely Show (1946–1958)
• John R. Gambling
  John R. Gambling
  John R. Gambling is an American radio personality. He is the son of John A. Gambling and the grandson of John B. Gambling, and as such was, and once again is, the third-generation host of The Gambling family's very-long-running New York morning radio show...
  
  (2000–present)
• John McVane (1945–1956)
• Johnny Modero, Pier 23
  Johnny Modero, Pier 23
  Johnny Madero, Pier 23 was a 30-minute radio detective drama series which was broadcast on Mutual Thursday at 8pm from April 24, 1947 to September 4, 1947....
  
  (1947)
• The Johnson Family (1941–1950)
• Joseph C. Harsch (1947–1956)
• Joyce Jordan, M.D. (1938–1955)
• Judy and Jane
  Judy and Jane
  Judy and Jane was a radio soap opera originally heard on CBS from February 8 to June 17, 1932 and on NBC from October 10, 1932 to April 26, 1935. Sponsored by Folgers Coffee, it was heard regionally in the midwest only....
  
  (1932–1947)
• The Judy Canova Show
  Judy Canova
  Judy Canova , born Juliette Canova, was an American comedienne, actress, singer and radio personality. She appeared on Broadway and in films...
  
  (1943–1953)
• Jungle Jim
  Jungle Jim
  Jungle Jim is the fictional hero of a series of jungle adventures in various media. The series began in 1934 as an American newspaper comic strip chronicling the adventures of Asia-based hunter Jim Bradley, who was nicknamed Jungle Jim...
  
  (1935–1954)
• Junior Miss (1942–1954)
• Just Plain Bill
  Just Plain Bill
  Just Plain Bill was a long run 15-minute daytime radio drama program heard on CBS and NBC. The series was sponsored by Anacin for 18 of the program's 23-year run. Other sponsors over the years were Kolynos toothpaste, Clapp’s baby food and BiSoDol...
  
  (1932–1955)

K

• The Kate Smith A&P Bandwagon
  Kate Smith
  Kathryn Elizabeth "Kate" Smith was an American Popular singer, best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America". Smith had a radio, television, and recording career spanning five decades, which reached its pinnacle in the 1940s.Smith was born in Greenville, Virginia...
  
  (1936, CBS
  CBS
  CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
  
  , 8-9:00 p.m. Thursdays)
• The Kate Smith Hour
  Kate Smith
  Kathryn Elizabeth "Kate" Smith was an American Popular singer, best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America". Smith had a radio, television, and recording career spanning five decades, which reached its pinnacle in the 1940s.Smith was born in Greenville, Virginia...
  
  (1930–1958)
• Kate Smith's Coffee Time
  Kate Smith
  Kathryn Elizabeth "Kate" Smith was an American Popular singer, best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America". Smith had a radio, television, and recording career spanning five decades, which reached its pinnacle in the 1940s.Smith was born in Greenville, Virginia...
  
  (1935, CBS, 7:30-7:45 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday)
• Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge
  Kay Kyser
  James Kern Kyser was a popular bandleader and radio personality of the 1930s and 1940s.-Early years:He was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the son of pharmacists Paul Bynum Kyser and Emily Royster Kyser. Editor Vermont C. Royster was his cousin...
  
  (1938–1949)
• King Biscuit Flower Hour
  King Biscuit Flower Hour
  The King Biscuit Flower Hour was a syndicated radio show presented by the D.I.R. Radio Network that featured concert performances by various rock artists.-History:...
  
  (1973–present)
• Korn’s-A-Krackin’ (KWTO and Mutual, 1940s)
• Kraft Music Hall
  Kraft Music Hall
  The Kraft Music Hall was a popular variety program, featuring top show business entertainers, which aired on NBC radio and television from 1933 to 1971....
  
  (1933–1949)

L

• Land of the Lost
  Land of the Lost (radio)
  Land of the Lost was a 1940s radio fantasy adventure, written and narrated by Isabel Manning Hewson, about the adventures of two children who traveled underwater with the fatherly fish Red Lantern...
  
  (1944–1948)
• The Landt Trio (1928–1951)
• The Lanny Ross Show (1929–1952)
• The Larry King
  Larry King
  Lawrence Harvey "Larry" King is an American television and radio host whose work has been recognized with awards including two Peabodys and ten Cable ACE Awards....
  
   Show (1978–present)
• The Lars Larson
  Lars Larson
  Lars Larson is a conservative U.S. talk radio show host based in Oregon. Larson hosts a national talk radio show, which as of 2009 is syndicated by Compass Media Networks...
  
   Show
• The Laura Ingraham
  Laura Ingraham
  Laura Anne Ingraham is an American radio host, author, and conservative political commentator. Her nationally syndicated talk show, The Laura Ingraham Show, airs throughout the United States on Talk Radio Network...
  
   Show (2001–present)
• The Lazlow Jones
  Lazlow
  Lazlow Jones, is an American writer, producer, director and talk show host based in New York City. He was the host of Technofile, a radio show syndicated on more than 100 radio stations in America and as well as Sirius XM Satellite Radio...
  
   Show (through 2005)
• Leading Question (1953–1963)
• The Les Paul Show
  Les Paul
  Lester William Polsfuss —known as Les Paul—was an American jazz and country guitarist, songwriter and inventor. He was a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which made the sound of rock and roll possible. He is credited with many recording innovations...
  
  
• Let George Do It
  Let George Do It (radio)
  Let George Do It was a radio drama series produced by Owen and Pauline Vinson from 1946 to 1954. It starred Bob Bailey as detective-for-hire George Valentine ....
  
  (1946–1955)
• Let's Dance
  Let's Dance (radio)
  Let's Dance was a Saturday night radio music program broadcast by NBC in the mid-1930s.Sponsored by the National Biscuit Company , it aired for three full hours, starting at 10:30pm on the East Coast. This late-night timeslot gave the program a much larger audience on the West Coast when heard...
  
  (1934–1935)
• Let's Pretend
  Let's Pretend
  This article is on the US radio series. For the UK TV series see Let's Pretend .Let's Pretend, created and directed by Nila Mack , was a long-run CBS radio series for children....
  
  (1937–1954)
• Life Can Be Beautiful
  Life Can Be Beautiful
  Life Can Be Beautiful was a daytime drama broadcast on NBC and CBS during its 16-year run. The program was also facetiously known to many as Elsie Beebe, a contrived acronym based on the show's initials....
  
  (1938–1954)
• Life Online with Bob Parsons (2005–present)
• The Life of Riley
  The Life of Riley
  The Life of Riley, with William Bendix in the title role, is a popular American radio situation comedy series of the 1940s that was adapted into a 1949 feature film, a long-run 1950s television series , and a 1958 Dell comic book...
  
  (1944–1951)
• The Light of the World (1940–1950)
• Lights Out
  Lights Out (radio show)
  Lights Out is an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum...
  
  (1934–1947)
• The Linda Chavez Show
• Linda’s First Love (1939–1950)
• Little Orphan Annie
  Little Orphan Annie
  Little Orphan Annie was a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by Tribune Media Services. The strip took its name from the 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley, and made its debut on August 5, 1924 in the New York Daily News...
  
  (1931–1943)
• Live from the 60s with the Real Don Steele (1988–1993)
• The Lone Ranger
  The Lone Ranger
  The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked Texas Ranger who, with his Native American companion Tonto, fights injustice in the American Old West. The character has become an enduring icon of American culture....
  
  (1933–1954)
• Longines Symphonette (1943–1958)
• Looking Over the Week (1933–1946)
• The Louella Parsons Show
  Louella Parsons
  Louella Parsons was the first American news-writer movie columnist in the United States. She was a gossip columnist who, for many years, was an influential arbiter of Hollywood mores, often feared and hated by the individuals, mostly actors, whose careers she could negatively impact via her...
  
  (1931–1951)
• Louisiana Hayride (1948–1958)
• Lone Journey (1940–1952)
• Long John Nebel
  Long John Nebel
  Long John Nebel was an influential New York City talk radio show host.From the mid 1950s until his death in 1978, Nebel was a hugely popular all-night radio host, with millions of regular listeners and what Donald Bain described as "a fanatically loyal following" to his syndicated program, which...
  
  
• Lorenzo Jones
  Lorenzo Jones
  Lorenzo Jones was a daytime radio series which aired on NBC in different timeslots over an 18-year span.Produced by Frank and Anne Hummert, the series could be classified with its own unique category of "comedy soap opera," highlighted by organist Rosa Rio's rollicking rendition of the opening...
  
  (1937–1955)
• Lowell Thomas and the News
  Lowell Thomas
  Lowell Jackson Thomas was an American writer, broadcaster, and traveler, best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous...
  
  (1930–1976)
• Lum and Abner (1931–1953)
• The Lutheran Hour
  The Lutheran Hour
  The Lutheran Hour is a U.S. religious radio program that proclaims the message of Jesus Christ on nearly 800 stations throughout North American, as well as by weekly audiences on the American Forces Network and XM Satellite Radio FamilyTalk 170...
  
  (1930–present)
• Lux Radio Theater
  Lux Radio Theater
  Lux Radio Theater, a long-run classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network ; CBS and NBC . Initially, the series adapted Broadway plays during its first two seasons before it began adapting films. These hour-long radio programs were performed live before studio audiences...
  
  (1934–1955)

M

• Ma Perkins
  Ma Perkins
  Ma Perkins is an American radio soap opera which was heard on NBC from 1933 to 1949 and on CBS from 1942 to 1960. Between 1942 and 1949, the show was heard simultaneously on both networks...
  
  (1933–1960)
• Magic Island
  Magic Island (radio)
  Magic Island was a science-fantasy radio serial syndicated in 1935. The series had 130 15-minute episodes, and all episodes have survived.The storyline followed wealthy Patricia Gregory as she ended her 14-year search in the South Pacific for her long lost daughter Joan. When Joan was one-year-old,...
  
  
• Major Bowes Capitol Family Hour (1925–1941)
• Major Bowes Amateur Hour
  Major Bowes Amateur Hour
  Major Bowes Amateur Hour, American radio's best-known talent show, was one of the most popular programs broadcast in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s...
  
  (1935–1946)
• The Man Called X
  The Man Called X
  The Man Called X was an espionage radio drama which aired on CBS and NBC from July 10, 1944 to May 20, 1952. Herbert Marshall had the lead role of agent Ken Thurston who took on dangerous cases in a variety of exotic locations. Gordon Jenkins Orchestra supplied the background music.Leon Belasco...
  
  (1944–1952)
• Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1933–1949)
• The March of Time
  The March of Time
  The March of Time is a radio series, and companion newsreel series, that was broadcast on CBS from 1931 to 1945 and shown in movie theaters from 1935 to 1951. It was created by Time, Inc. executive Roy Edward Larsen, and was produced and written by Louis de Rochemont and his brother Richard de...
  
  (1931–1945)
• The Mark & Brian
  Mark & Brian
  The Mark & Brian Show is an American radio talk show hosted by Mark Thompson and Brian Phelps, known on the air as "Mark & Brian." The syndicated program originates weekday mornings from KLOS-FM in Los Angeles, California, and blends comedy sketches, listener phone calls, interviews with in-studio...
  
   Show (1987–present)
• Mark Trail
  Mark Trail
  Mark Trail is a newspaper comic strip created by the American cartoonist Ed Dodd. Introduced April 15, 1946, the strip centers on environmental and ecological themes. In 2006, King Features syndicated the strip to nearly 175 newspapers....
  
  (1950–1952)
• Marketplace (radio program)
  Marketplace (radio program)
  Marketplace is a radio program that focuses on business, the economy, and events that influence them. Hosted by Kai Ryssdal, the show is produced and distributed by American Public Media, in association with the University of Southern California...
  
  (1989–present)
• Martin Agronsky (1944–1956)
• The Mary Lee Taylor Show (1937–1954)
• Mary Margaret McBride
  Mary Margaret McBride
  Mary Margaret McBride was an American radio interview host and writer. Her popular radio shows spanned more than 40 years; she is also remembered for her few months of pioneering television, as an early sign of radio success not guaranteeing a transition to the new medium...
  
  (1937–1954)
• Mary Small (1934–1946)
• Maurice, the Singer of Romance (1935, NBC, Morrie Abrams, singer)
• Meet Corliss Archer (1943–1955)
• The Mercury Theater on the Air
  Mercury Theatre
  The Mercury Theatre was a theatre company founded in New York City in 1937 by Orson Welles and John Houseman. After a string of live theatrical productions, in 1938 the Mercury Theatre progressed into their best-known period as The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a radio series that included one of the...
  
  (1938–1939)
• Meredith Willson (1936–1954)
• Message of Israel (1935–1956)
• Metropolitan Opera
  Metropolitan Opera
  The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company, located in New York City. Originally founded in 1880, the company gave its first performance on October 22, 1883. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager...
  
  (1931–present)
• Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air (1935–1958)
• The Michael Medved
  Michael Medved
  Michael Medved is an American radio host, author, political commentator and film critic. His Seattle, Washington-based nationally syndicated talk show, The Michael Medved Show, airs throughout the U.S...
  
   Show (1996–present)
• The Michael Reagan
  Michael Reagan
  Michael Edward Reagan is a former American radio host and Republican strategist. His nationally syndicated radio show, The Michael Reagan Talk Show, aired on stations throughout the United States on the Premiere Radio Networks before being dropped, after which it moved to Radio America...
  
   Radio Show (1992–present)
• Michael Shayne, crime drama, ABC, 1952–1953, 30 minutes. Robert Sterling played Mike Shayne, with Judith Parrish as Phyllis Knight. Music by John Duffy.[1]
• The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air
  The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air
  The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air was a musical-variety radio series for children, sponsored by Pepsodent and heard on NBC. Broadcast from the Disney Little Theater on the RKO lot from January 2 to May 15, 1938, the program was created to promote the February 1938 release of Snow White and the...
  
  (1938)
• Midweek Hymn Sing (1926–1936)
• Midweek Politics
  Midweek politics
  The David Pakman Show , originally Midweek Politics with David Pakman, is a multiplatform politics and news talk show airing on radio, television, and the internet, hosted by David Pakman, currently airing on a combination of commercial and public radio stations, including Pacifica Radio stations,...
  
  (2005–present)
• The Mike Malloy Show
  The Mike Malloy Show
  The Mike Malloy Show is a syndicated progressive radio talk show hosted by long-time radio personality Mike Malloy. Malloy came to talk radio in 1987, moving from his position as a writer and producer at CNN. He is married to producer Kathy Bay, with whom he has a daughter born in July, 2004...
  
  (2004–present)
• Mike and the Mad Dog
  Mike and the Mad Dog
  Mike and the Mad Dog was an afternoon drive sports radio program based out of WFAN in New York City that featured Mike Francesa and Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo talking sports and taking phone calls from listeners. From 2002 onwards the show was simulcasted on the YES Network...
  
  (1992–present)
• The Mildred Bailey Revue (1933–1944)
• The Milton Berle Show (1939–1948)
• The Mixing Board with Paul Stewart (2011–present)
• Modern Romances (1936–1955)
• Molle Mystery Theater (1943–1954)
• Mom's the Word (2007–present)
• Monday Morning Headlines (1944–1956)
• Monitor
  Monitor (NBC Radio)
  NBC Monitor was an American weekend radio program broadcast from June 12, 1955, until January 26, 1975. Airing live and nationwide on the NBC Radio Network, it originally aired beginning Saturday morning at 8am and continuing through the weekend until 12 midnight on Sunday...
  
  (1955–1975)
• Morgan Beatty News (1942–1953)
• Morning Edition
  Morning Edition
  Morning Edition is an American radio news program produced and distributed by National Public Radio . It airs weekday mornings and runs for two hours, and many stations repeat one or both hours. The show feeds live from 05:00 to 09:00 ET, with feeds and updates as required until noon...
  
  (1979–present)
• Morning Sedition
  Morning Sedition
  Morning Sedition was a three-hour radio program that premiered April 1, 2004 and ran until December 16, 2005, in the United States. It was hosted by comedian Marc Maron and New York radio veteran Mark Riley. Prior to June 2004, the show was also hosted by radio and television journalist Sue...
  
  (2004–2005)
• Morning Sickness with Eric and Harrison (2006–present)
• The Morton Downey Show (1930–1951)
• Mr. and Mrs. North
  Mr. and Mrs. North
  Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple were featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series....
  
  (1942–1954)
• Mr. District Attorney
  Mr. District Attorney
  Mr. District Attorney is a popular radio crime drama which aired on NBC and ABC from April 3, 1939 to June 13, 1952 . The series focused on a crusading D.A., initially known only as "Mister District Attorney," or "Chief", and was later translated to television. On television the D.A...
  
  (1939–1953)
• Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons
  Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons
  Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons was one of radio's longest running shows, airing , continuing well into the television era. It was produced by Frank and Anne Hummert...
  
  (1937–1955)
• Murder at Midnight (1946–1947)
• Music and the Spoken Word (Mormon Tabernacle Choir
  Mormon Tabernacle Choir
  The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, sometimes colloquially referred to as MoTab, is a Grammy and Emmy Award winning, 360-member, all-volunteer choir. The choir is part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . However, the choir is completely self-funded, traveling and producing albums to...
  
  ) (1929–present)
• Music Appreciation Hour (1928–1941)
• Music from Hollywood (1937–1950)
• Music Of The Stars
  Music Of The Stars
  The Music of the Stars is a four-hour radio program in the Chicago-Milwaukee radio market; it is heard worldwide from WLIP in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and is produced and hosted by Lou Rugani...
  
  (1992–present)
• Music That Satisfies (1932–1945)
• Musical Album (1927–1936)
• My Favorite Husband
  My Favorite Husband
  My Favorite Husband is the name of an American radio program and network television series. The original radio show, co-starring Lucille Ball, was the initial basis for what evolved into the groundbreaking TV sitcom I Love Lucy. The series was based on the novel Mr. and Mrs...
  
  (1948–1951)
• My Friend Irma (1947–1954)
• My Little Margie
  My Little Margie
  My Little Margie is an American situation comedy that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to 1955. The series was created by Frank Fox and produced in Los Angeles, California at Hal Roach Studios by Hal Roach, Jr. and Roland D...
  
  (1952–1955)
• Myrt and Marge (1931–1947)
• The Mysterious Traveler
  The Mysterious Traveler
  The Mysterious Traveler was an anthology radio series, a magazine and a comic book. All three featured stories which ran the gamut from fantasy and science fiction to straight crime dramas of mystery and suspense.-Radio:...
  
  (1943–1952)
• Mystery Chef (1931–1945)

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• National Barn Dance
  National Barn Dance
  National Barn Dance, broadcast by WLS-AM in Chicago, Illinois starting in 1924, was one of the first American country music radio programs and a direct precursor of the Grand Ole Opry...
  
  (1933–1950)
• National Church of the Air (1927–1956)
• The National Farm and Home Hour
  The National Farm and Home Hour
  The National Farm and Home Hour was a variety show which was broadcast in various formats from 1928 to 1958. Aimed at listeners in rural America, it was known as "the farmer's bulletin board" and was produced by the United States Department of Agriculture with contributions from, and the...
  
  (1929–1958)
• National Radio Forum (1931–1943)
• The Navy Hour (1930–1954)
• NBC Music Appreciation Hour (1929–1941)
• NBC Symphony Orchestra
  NBC Symphony Orchestra
  The NBC Symphony Orchestra was a radio orchestra established by David Sarnoff of the National Broadcasting Company especially for conductor Arturo Toscanini...
  
  (1937–1954)
• The Neal Boortz
  Neal Boortz
  Neal A. Boortz, Jr. is an American Libertarian radio host, author, and political commentator. His nationally syndicated talk show, The Neal Boortz Show, airs throughout the United States on Dial Global . It is ranked seventh in overall listeners, with 4.25+ million per week...
  
   Show (1977–present)
• Nell Vinick (1929–1942)
• Nelson Olmsted (1939–1951)
• The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was an old-time radio show which aired in the USA from October 2, 1939 to July 7, 1947. Most episodes were written by the team of Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher....
  
  (1939–1947)
• The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe (1950–1951)
• New York Philharmonic Orchestra (1927–1963)
• News on the Hour (1950, NBC, with newscaster Robert Abernethy)
• Newsroom of the Air (1940–1955)
• Nick Carter, Master Detective
  Nick Carter (literary character)
  Nick Carter is a fictional character who began as a pulp fiction private detective and has appeared in a variety of formats over more than a century.-Literary history:...
  
  (1943–1955)
• Nightbeat
  Nightbeat
  Nightbeat was a radio drama series that aired on NBC from February 6, 1950 until September 25, 1952, sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer and Wheaties....
  
  (1950–1952)
• Nights with Alice Cooper
  Nights with Alice Cooper
  Nights with Alice Cooper is a radio show hosted by rock and roll artist and shock rock pioneer Alice Cooper. It is syndicated by United Stations Radio Networks and broadcast on over 100 radio stations in the US, seven in Canada, and is also available in the UK , Germany , Ireland, Australia ,...
  
  (2004–present)
• Noah Webster Says (1942–1951)
• Northwestern University Reviewing Stand (1936–1963)

O

• Of Men and Books (1939–1948)
• Official Detective (1946–1957)
• Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra (1949–1963)
• The Old-Fashioned Revival Hour (1936–1961)
• Old Gold on Broadway
  Old Gold on Broadway
  Old Gold on Broadway was a 1927-28 radio series which broadcast live from inside New York theaters, sponsored by Old Gold Cigarettes. It began in October 1927....
  
  (1933–1948)
• On the Line with Bob Considine (1947–1963)
• One Man's Family
  One Man's Family
  One Man's Family, is a long-running American radio soap opera. It was heard for almost three decades, from 1932 to 1959. Created by Carlton E. Morse, it was the longest-running uninterrupted serial in the history of American radio...
  
  (1932–1959)
• One Night Stand (1942–1962)
• The O’Neills (19343-1943)
• Open Forum (1961-2011)
• Open House Party
  Open House Party
  Open House Party is an American radio show hosted on Saturday nights by John Garabedian that promotes itself as "the biggest party on the planet". It focuses on playing contemporary hit radio music, also known as Top 40. The show differentiates itself from most Top 40 stations because it plays a...
  
  (1988–present)
• The Opie & Anthony Show (1994–present)
• The Original Amateur Hour
• Our Gal Sunday (1937–1959)
• Our Miss Brooks (1948–1957)
• Ozark Jubilee
  Ozark Jubilee
  Ozark Jubilee is the first U.S. network television program to feature country music's top stars, and was the centerpiece of a strategy for Springfield, Missouri to challenge Nashville, Tennessee as America's country music capital...
  
  (1953–1960) on ABC Radio

P

• Painted Dreams
  Painted Dreams
  Painted Dreams is an American radio soap opera that was the first daytime radio soap opera program in the United States. It premiered October 20, 1930 and last aired in July, 1943....
  
  (1930-1938?)
• The Passing Parade (1938–1949)
• Pat Novak for Hire
  Pat Novak for Hire
  Pat Novak, for Hire is an old-time radio detective drama series which aired from 1946-1947 as a West Coast regional program and in 1949 as a nationwide program for ABC. The regional version originally starred Jack Webb in the title role, with scripts by his roommate Richard L. Breen...
  
  
• Pat O'Daniel and His Hillbilly Boys
  Pat O'Daniel and His Hillbilly Boys
  Pat O'Daniel and his Hillbilly Boys was a Texan Western swing band with its own radio program during the mid-1930s. Pat O'Daniel, the son of "Pappy" O'Daniel, was the band's leader...
  
  (1930s)
• Paul Harvey
  Paul Harvey
  Paul Harvey Aurandt , better known as Paul Harvey, was an American radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks. He broadcast News and Comment on weekday mornings and mid-days, and at noon on Saturdays, as well as his famous The Rest of the Story segments. His listening audience was estimated, at...
  
  (1950–present)
• The Paul Whiteman Hour (1927–1954)
• The Pause That Refreshes (1934–1948)
• People Are Funny
  People Are Funny
  People are Funny is an American radio and television game show, created by John Guedel that remained popular throughout the 1940s. The program ran from 1942 to 1960. The program's stunts and audience participation were calculated to reveal the humorous side of human nature...
  
  (1942–1960)
• The People’s Platform (1938–1952)
• Pepper Young's Family
  Pepper Young's Family
  Pepper Young's Family was one of radio's more popular daytime drama series, with various format and title changes during its long run from 1932 to 1959...
  
  (1936–1959)
• The Perry Como Show (1943–1955)
• Perry Mason
  Perry Mason (radio)
  The radio criminal serial Perry Mason, based on the novels of Erle Stanley Gardner, was broadcast on CBS Radio from 1943-1955. The series was adapted into Edge of Night which ran on television for an additional 30 years.-Adapting Perry Mason to other media:...
  
  (1943–1955)
• Pete Kelly's Blues
  Pete Kelly's Blues (radio series)
  Pete Kelly's Blues was an American radio drama which aired over NBC as an unsponsored summer replacement series on Wednesday nights at 8pm from July 4 through September 19, 1951. The series starred Jack Webb as Pete Kelly and was created by writer Richard L...
  
  (1951)
• The Phil Cook Show (1930–1952)
• The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show
  The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show
  The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show, a comedy radio program which ran on NBC from 1948 to 1954, evolved from an earlier music and comedy variety program, The Fitch Bandwagon...
  
  (1948–1954)
• Phil Hendrie Show
  Phil Hendrie
  Philip Stephen Hendrie is an American radio personality. He is best known as the host of The Phil Hendrie Show, a comedy talk radio program that is syndicated throughout North America on Talk Radio Network...
  
  
• The Philadelphia Symphony (1932–1957)
• The Philip Morris Playhouse (1939–1953)
• Pick and Pat (1934–1945)
• Planetary Radio
  Planetary Radio
  Planetary Radio is a weekly 30-minute radio show devoted to space exploration and astronomy, hosted and produced by Mat Kaplan and The Planetary Society. Every week, it consists mostly of interviews and telephone-based conversations with a scientist, engineer, project manager, artist, a writer and...
  
  (2002–present)
• Planet Mikey
  Planet Mikey
  Planet Mikey is a sports talk radio program on Boston's WEEI 850 kHz AM. The show was officially announced on December 15, 2005 and runs from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. on weekdays. The host is Mike Adams, an experienced Boston sports talk show host...
  
  (2005–present)
• The Playhouse
  The Playhouse (radio show)
  The Playhouse was a Portland, Oregon-based syndicated morning drive time radio show which debuted on February 12, 2000. It originally aired weekday mornings between 5-10am on then-flagship radio station KXJM , with the last four hours of the show being broadcast live online with fully produced...
  
  (2000–present)
• Police Headquarters
  Police Headquarters
  Police Headquarters was a 1932 crime radio drama. Bruce Eells Associates produced this series which was syndicated to West Coast NBC radio stations. Each program lasted for about 15 minutes: music was featured in the first part of the show, an announcer would do a commercial or two, then the 12...
  
  (1932)
• Portia Faces Life
  Portia Faces Life
  Portia Faces Life is a soap opera which began in syndication on April 1, 1940. It was broadcast on some stations that carried NBC programs, although it does not seem to have been an official part of that network's programming...
  
  (1940–1951)
• Pot o' Gold
• A Prairie Home Companion
  A Prairie Home Companion
  A Prairie Home Companion is a live radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor. The show runs on Saturdays from 5 to 7 p.m. Central Time, and usually originates from the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, although it is frequently taken on the road...
  
  (1974–present)
• The Preston and Steve Show
  Preston and Steve
  The Preston and Steve show is a morning radio comedy and variety broadcast on Philadelphia Active Rock station 93.3 FM WMMR featuring DJs Preston Elliot and Steve Morrison. The show, which originated at Y100 in Philadelphia, features daily telephone interviews, in-studio guests, celebrity...
  
  (1999-February 2005, May 2005–present)
• Problem Corner
• Professor Quiz
  Professor Quiz
  Professor Quiz was radio's first true quiz program, broadcast with many different sponsors from 1936 to 1948 on CBS and ABC. The program featured Professor Quiz, his wife Betty and his son, Professor Quiz Jr...
  
  (1936–1948)
• Proudly We Hail (1947–1957)

Q

• Queen for a Day
  Queen for a Day
  Queen for a Day is an American radio and television game show that helped to usher in American listeners' and viewers' fascination with big-prize giveaway shows. Queen for a Day originated on the Mutual Radio Network on April 30, 1945 in New York City before moving to Los Angeles a few months...
  
  (1945–1957)
• Quiet, Please
  Quiet, Please
  Quiet, Please! was a radio fantasy and horror program created by Wyllis Cooper, also known for creating Lights Out. Ernest Chappell was the show's announcer and lead actor. Quiet, Please! debuted June 8, 1947 on the Mutual Broadcasting System, and its last episode was broadcast June 25, 1949, on...
  
  (1947–1949)
• Quiz Kids
  Quiz Kids
  Quiz Kids, a popular radio-TV series of the 1940s and 1950s, was created by Chicago public relations and advertising man Louis G. Cowan . Originally sponsored by Alka-Seltzer, the series was first broadcast on NBC from Chicago, June 28, 1940, airing as a summer replacement show for Alec Templeton...
  
  (1940–1953?)

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• Radio Bible Class
  RBC Ministries
  RBC Ministries is a Christian organization founded by Dr. Martin De Haan in 1938. It is currently based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with over 300 employees...
  
  (1940–1961)
• Radio Bible Hour (1935–present)
• Radio City Music Hall (1932–1942)
• Radio Daze (1996–1998)
• The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly
  Bill O'Reilly (commentator)
  William James "Bill" O'Reilly, Jr. is an American television host, author, syndicated columnist and political commentator. He is the host of the political commentary program The O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel, which is the most watched cable news television program on American television...
  
  
• The Radio Guild (1929–1940)
• Rambling with Gambling
  Rambling with Gambling
  Rambling with Gambling was a news and talk radio program aired on WOR 710 from 1925 until 2000. It was hosted by three generations of people named John Gambling throughout its entire 75-year run.-History:...
  
  (1925–2000)
• The Ranch Boys (1934–1956)
• Ray Perkins (1930–1941)
• Raymond Gram Swing (1936–1951)
• The Red Foley
  Red Foley
  Clyde Julian Foley , better known as Red Foley, was an American singer, musician, and radio and TV personality who made a major contribution to the growth of country music after World War II....
  
   Show (1951–1961)
• Red Ryder
  Red Ryder
  Red Ryder was a popular long-running Western comic strip created by Stephen Slesinger and artist Fred Harman. Beginning Sunday, November 6, 1938, Red Ryder was syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association, expanding over the following decade to 750 newspapers, translations into ten languages and...
  
  (1942–1951)
• The Red Skelton Show (1941–1952)
• Religion in the News (1933–1950)
• Renfro Valley Barn Dance
  Renfro Valley Barn Dance
  Renfro Valley Barn Dance was an American country music stage and radio show originally carried by WLW-AM in Cincinnati, Ohio on Saturday nights. It debuted on October 9, 1937 from the Cincinnati Music Hall and moved to the Memorial Auditorium in Dayton, Ohio. It was hosted by John Lair, Red Foley,...
  
  
• The Richard Maxwell Show (1929–1946)
• Rick and Bubba
  Rick and Bubba
  Rick Burgess and Bill "Bubba" Bussey are cohosts of The Rick & Bubba Show—a syndicated comedic radio program based in Birmingham, Alabama...
  
  
• Rick Dees Weekly Top 40
  Rick Dees Weekly Top 40
  Rick Dees' Weekly Top 40 is an internationally-syndicated radio program created and hosted by American radio personality Rick Dees. It is currently heard on over 200 radio stations worldwide and the American Forces Network. It is distributed domestically by Citadel Media Networks and...
  
  (1983–present)
• Rick Rydell
  Rick Rydell
  Rick Rydell is an American talk radio host, outdoorsman, writer and author. Rydell has enjoyed a long career in radio, most prominently with various stations in Anchorage, Alaska...
  
   (2001–present)
• Right to Happiness (1939–1960)
• Rin-Tin-Tin (1930–1955)
• Ring of Fire
  Ring of Fire (radio program)
  Ring of Fire is a nationally syndicated American talk radio program hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio, and Sam Seder. The trio focuses on exposing people whom they consider to be "corporate fat cats, polluters and media spinmeisters". The show has been on the air since 2004 and is...
  
  (2004–present)
• Road of Life (1937–1959)
• The Rob Arnie and Dawn Show (1996–present)
• The Robert Q. Lewis Show (1945–1959)
• The Rochester Orchestra (1929–1942)
• Rock & Religion Radio Show
  Rock & Religion Radio Show
  Rock & Religion was a syndicated radio program based in Sacramento, California, USA. The program began in 1977 and ran through 1981. The show was produced by Mary Neely, and hosted by Neely, and singer Michael Roe. Although it is not currently being broadcast, recordings and original promotional...
  
  (A.K.A. Rock Scope) (1977–1981)
• Romance (1932–1957)
• The Romance of Helen Trent
  The Romance of Helen Trent
  The Romance of Helen Trent was a radio soap opera which aired on CBS from 1933 to 1960 for a total of 7,222 episodes. The show was created by Frank and Anne Hummert, who were among the most prolific producers during the radio soap era....
  
  (1933–1960)
• Rosemary (1944–1955)
• Roy Rogers Show (1944–1955)
• The Rubinoff Orchestra (1931–1943)
• The Rudy Vallée Show
  The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour
  The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour was a pioneering musical variety radio program broadcast on NBC from 1929 to 1936, when it became The Royal Gelatin Hour, continuing until 1939...
  
  (1929–1947)
• Rush Limbaugh
  Rush Limbaugh
  Rush Hudson Limbaugh III is an American radio talk show host, conservative political commentator, and an opinion leader in American conservatism. He hosts The Rush Limbaugh Show which is aired throughout the U.S. on Premiere Radio Networks and is the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United...
  
  (1988–present)
• Rovers Morning Glory (2003–present)

S

• Say it loud Teen Radio
• Sacred Heart Program
• The Sammy Kaye Show (1937–1956)
• Saturday Night Serenade (1936–1948)
• The Savage Nation with Michael Savage
  Michael Savage (commentator)
  Michael Savage is a conservative American radio host, author, and political commentator. He is the host of The Savage Nation, a nationally syndicated talk show that airs throughout the United States on Talk Radio Network...
  
  (2000–present)
• SCORE (306) Radio: Counselors to America's Small Business (1998–present) on WVOX
  WVOX
  WVOX is a radio station in New Rochelle, New York. It is operated as a regional community station heard mainly in suburban Westchester County, the Bronx, Queens, the North Shore of Long Island, southern Connecticut and northern New Jersey. The station president is William O'Shaughnessy, and its...
  
  
• Scattergood Baines (1938–1950)
• The Screen Guild Theater
  The Screen Guild Theater
  The Screen Guild Theater was a popular radio anthology series during the Golden Age of Radio, broadcast from 1939 until 1952, with leading Hollywood actors performing in adaptations of popular motion pictures such as Going My Way and The Postman Always Rings Twice.The show had a long run, lasting...
  
  (1939–1952)
• The Sealed Book
  The Sealed Book
  The Sealed Book was a radio series of mystery and terror tales, produced and directed by Jock MacGregor for the Mutual network. Between March 18 and September 9, 1945, the melodramatic anthology series was broadcast on Sundays from 10:30pm to 11:00pm....
  
  (1945)
• The Sean Hannity
  Sean Hannity
  Sean Hannity is an American radio and television host, author, and conservative political commentator. He is the host of The Sean Hannity Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks. Hannity also hosts a cable news show, Hannity,...
  
   Show (nationally 2001–present)
• Second Husband (1937–1946)
• Second Mrs. Burton (1946–1960)
• Selected Shorts
  Selected Shorts
  Selected Shorts is an event at New York’s Symphony Space on the Upper West Side, in which actors read classic and new short fiction before a live audience. The annual season of the live events at Symphony Space begins in the mid-fall and ends in mid-spring, and a typical episode would include...
  
  
• Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (1946–1955)
• Seth Parker (1929–1939)
• The Shadow
  The Shadow
  The Shadow is a collection of serialized dramas, originally in pulp magazines, then on 1930s radio and then in a wide variety of media, that follow the exploits of the title character, a crime-fighting vigilante in the pulps, which carried over to the airwaves as a "wealthy, young man about town"...
  
  (1937–1954)
• Shell Chateau
  Shell Chateau
  Shell Chateau was a musical variety radio series heard on NBC from 1935 to 1937. Sponsored by Shell Oil, the hour-long program, sometimes called The Shell Show, was broadcast on Saturday evenings at 9:30pm.-Al Jolson:...
  
  (1935-1937)
• Silver Theatre (1937–1950)
• Sinfonietta (1935–1945)
• Singin' Sam
  Singin' Sam
  Singin’ Sam aka Harry Frankel was a minstrel performer, vaudevillian and popular personality during the early days of radio...
  
  (1930–1947)
• Singing Story Lady (1932–1941)
• Singin' Sam (1930–1947)
• The Six Shooter (1952–1954)
• *Sleep No More
  Nelson Olmsted
  Nelson Olmsted, was an actor in films, recordings, radio and television from the 1950s to the 1970s. Sometimes billed as Nelson Olmstead, he was best known for an unusual NBC radio series, Sleep No More , in which he narrated his own adaptations of terror tales and science-fantasy stories...
  
  
• Smilin' Ed Maxwell Show (1932–1941)
• Smoke Dreams (1928–1946)
• Snow Village Sketches (1928–1947)
• The Sound of Young America
  The Sound of Young America
  The Sound of Young America is a public radio program and podcast based in Los Angeles, California and distributed by Public Radio International...
  
  
• The Southernaires Quartette (1930–1951)
• Space Patrol (1952–1955)
• The Sportsbash
• The Stan Freberg Show
  The Stan Freberg Show
  The Stan Freberg Show was a weekly radio comedy show that ran on the CBS Radio Network for only fifteen episodes in 1957 from July 14 through October 20...
  
  (1957)
• Stan Lomax (1935–1944)
• Star and the Story (1944)
• StarDate
  StarDate (radio)
  StarDate is a science radio program of the University of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory.The show began in 1976 as a astronomy telephone message service established by science journalist Deborah Byrd. This evolved at Austin radio station KLBJ-FM into the daily radio program Have You Seen the...
  
  (1978-Date)
• Stella Dallas (1938–1955)
• Stoopnagle and Budd
  Stoopnagle and Budd
  Stoopnagle and Budd were a popular radio comedy team of the 1930s, who are sometimes cited as forerunners of the Bob and Ray style of radio comedy...
  
   (1930–37)
• Story of Mary Marlin (1935–1952)
• Stop Me If You've Heard This One
  Stop Me If You've Heard This One
  Stop Me If You've Heard This One was a comedy radio series, created by the actor-humorist Cal Tinney and sponsored by Quaker Oats. Hosted by Milton Berle, it aired Saturday evenings at 8:30pm on NBC beginning October 7, 1939.-Production history:The premise was that listeners received prizes for...
  
  (1939–1948)
• Story Time (1929–1956)
• Strictly from Dixie (1941–1954)
• The Strange Dr. Weird
  The Strange Dr. Weird
  The Strange Dr. Weird is a radio program broadcast on Mutual from 1944 to 1945.Sponsored by Adam Hats, the drama is notable in part because it was a sister series to The Mysterious Traveler, both in theme and its narrator. Maurice Tarplin, who was also the creepy voice of The Mysterious Traveler...
  
  (1944–45)
• Strike It Rich
  Strike It Rich (radio-TV)
  Strike It Rich was a controversial game show that aired on American radio and television from 1947-1958 on CBS and NBC. People in need of money appeared and told their tale of woe, then tried to win money by answering some relatively easy questions...
  
  (1947–1957)
• Stroke of Fate
  Stroke of Fate
  Stroke of Fate was an American radio drama in 1953.This NBC alternate history series aired 13 episodes from October 4th to December 27th featuring actors like Ed Begley, Alexander Scourby, Hal Studer and Santos Ortega. The episodes were written by Mort Lewis and George Faulkner, directed by Fred...
  
  (1953)
• Studio One
• Suspense
  Suspense (radio program)
  -Production background:One of the premier drama programs of the Golden Age of Radio, was subtitled "radio's outstanding theater of thrills" and focused on suspense thriller-type scripts, usually featuring leading Hollywood actors of the era...
  
  (1942–1962)
• Swingin' Years (1956–2006)

T

• T3: Trends, Tips & Tools for Everyday Living" (2003–2004) on WVOX
  WVOX
  WVOX is a radio station in New Rochelle, New York. It is operated as a regional community station heard mainly in suburban Westchester County, the Bronx, Queens, the North Shore of Long Island, southern Connecticut and northern New Jersey. The station president is William O'Shaughnessy, and its...
  
  
• Take It or Leave It (1940–1952)
• Talent Round-Up
  Talent Varieties
  Talent Varieties is a country music talent show on American network television and radio in 1955 that featured performers hoping to achieve fame in the entertainment business....
  
  (ABC, 1955)
• Tales of Fatima
  Tales of Fatima
  Tales of Fatima was an old-time radio show from 1949 starring Basil Rathbone, who had by that time become famous for his long run portraying the world's most famous sleuth in The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes....
  
  (1949)
• Tales of the Texas Rangers
  Tales of the Texas Rangers
  Tales of the Texas Rangers, a western adventure old-time radio drama, premiered on July 8, 1950, on the US NBC radio network and remained on the air through September 14, 1952...
  
  (1950–1952)
• Tarzan (1932–1953)
• The Ted Lewis Show (1934–1948)
• The Ted Steele Orchestra (1939–1955)
• Tech Talk Radio (2000–present)
• Terry and the Pirates (1937–1948)
• Texaco Star Theater (1938–1948)
• Theatre Guild on the Air (1945–1954)
• The Lives of Harry Lime
  The Lives of Harry Lime
  The Adventures of Harry Lime was an old-time radio programme produced in London, England during the 1951 to 1952 season....
  
  (1951–1952)
• The Third Shift
  The Third Shift
  The Third Shift was a daily radio program broadcast nationally on Fox Sports Radio from 2–6 AM ET. The program was hosted by FSR's Ben Maller with Karen Kay. The show was produced by Greg Bergman...
  
  (2004–present)
• This American Life
  This American Life
  This American Life is a weekly hour-long radio program produced by WBEZ and hosted by Ira Glass. It is distributed by Public Radio International on PRI affiliate stations and is also available as a free weekly podcast. Primarily a journalistic non-fiction program, it has also featured essays,...
  
  (1995-present)
• This I Believe
  This I Believe
  This I Believe was a five-minute CBS Radio Network program hosted by journalist Edward R. Murrow from 1951 to 1955. A half-hour European version of This I Believe ran from 1956 to 1958 over Radio Luxembourg....
  
  (1951–1955, 2005–present)
• This Is Nora Drake (1947–1959)
• This Is Your FBI
  This is Your FBI
  This Is Your FBI was a radio crime drama which aired in the United States on ABC from April 6, 1945 to January 30, 1953 for a total of 409 shows. FBI chief J...
  
  (1945–1953)
• The Thom Hartmann Program (2003–present)
• The Three Suns (1940–1956)
• Time After Island Time
• Today's Children
  Today's Children
  Today's Children was a name shared by two thematically related American radio soap operas created and written by Irna Phillips, the earliest of which was her first nationally networked series.-1933-1938 series:...
  
  (1932–1938)
• Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
  Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
  Tom Corbett is the main character in a series of Tom Corbett — Space Cadet stories that were depicted in television, radio, books, comic books, comic strips, coloring books, punch-out books and View-Master reels in the 1950s....
  
  (1952)
• The Tom Joyner
  Tom Joyner
  Thomas "Tom" Joyner is an American radio host, host of the nationally syndicated The Tom Joyner Morning Show, and also founder of REACH Media Inc., the Tom Joyner Foundation, and BlackAmericaWeb.com.-Early life:...
  
   Morning Show (1994–present)
• The Tom Leykis
  Tom Leykis
  Thomas Joseph Leykis is an American radio personality. He currently hosts The Tasting Room with Tom Leykis, a weekly lifestyle program dealing with fine food and drink, airing weekends mainly in West Coast markets...
  
   Show (1994–present)
• Tom Mix (1933–1950)
• Tommy & the Bull (1990–1995)
• Tommy & Rumble
  Tommy & Rumble
  Rumble in the Morning is a comic radio program broadcast weekday mornings on FM99 in Virginia and hosted by Rick Rumble. The show was known as Tommy & Rumble from 1995 until 2009, during which time it was hosted by Tommy Griffiths and Rumble...
  
  (1995–present)
• Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou
  Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou
  Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou was an unusual radio situation comedy broadcast in various timeslots from 1938 to 1946.Tommy Riggs switched back and forth from his natural baritone to the voice of a seven-year-old girl, Betty Lou...
  
  (1938–1946)
• Tom Terris (1932–1941)
• The Tommy Dorsey Show (1937–1947)
• This is Hell
  This is Hell (radio)
  This is Hell is a weekly Saturday morning four hour radio show hosted by Chuck Mertz on WNUR-FM in Evanston, Chicago. It has been broadcasting regularly since 1998...
  
   (1998–present)
• Tony Won’s Scrapbook (1930–1943)
• Total Axxess
  Total Axxess
  Total Axxess is a contemporary Christian music radio program. The afternoon show is broadcast nationwide on WAY-FM Network and other affiliated Contemporary Christian music radio stations. The program is based out of Nashville, Tennessee. The show is produced by CHRSN. The show began in January 2004...
  
  (on)
• The Town Crier
  Alexander Woollcott
  Alexander Humphreys Woollcott was an American critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine and a member of the Algonquin Round Table....
  
  (1929–1943)
• Too Beautiful to Live
  Too Beautiful to Live
  Too Beautiful to Live is a podcast and a former radio show originating from Seattle, Washington. It first aired on January 7, 2008 and its final broadcast was September 11, 2009...
  
  (2008–present)
• Treasury Agent (1946–1958)
• True Confessions (1944–1958)
• True Detective Mysteries (1929–1958)
• True or False (1938–1956)
• Truth or Consequences
  Truth or Consequences
  Truth or Consequences is an American quiz show originally hosted on NBC radio by Ralph Edwards and later on television by Edwards , Jack Bailey , Bob Barker , Bob Hilton and Larry Anderson . The television show ran on CBS, NBC and also in syndication...
  
  (1940–1957)
• Tune Detective (1931–1947)
• Twenty Questions
  Twenty Questions
  Twenty Questions is a spoken parlor game which encourages deductive reasoning and creativity. It originated in the United States and escalated in popularity during the late 1940s when it became the format for a successful weekly radio quiz program....
  
  (1946–1954)

• Valiant Lady (1938–1952)
• Vic and Sade
  Vic and Sade
  Vic and Sade was an American radio program created and written by Paul Rhymer. It was regularly broadcast on radio from 1932 to 1944, then intermittently until 1946, and was briefly adapted to television in 1949 and again in 1957....
  
  (1932–1957)
• Victor Lindlahr
  Victor Lindlahr
  Dr. Victor Hugo Lindlahr was an American health food and weight loss pioneer. In the 1930s he hosted a popular radio series about nutrition. In 1940, he wrote the book You Are What You Eat, one of the earliest texts of the health food movement in the United States, which sold over half a million...
  
  (1936–1953)
• Viva America
  Viva América
  Viva América was an American musical radio program which was broadcast live over the CBS radio network and to South America over the La Cadena de las Americas during the 1940s...
  
  CBS
  CBS
  CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
  
   (1942–1949)
• The Vintage White Owl Program (see The Adventures of Gracie)
• The Voice of Experience (1933–1944)
• The Voice of Firestone
  The Voice of Firestone
  The Voice of Firestone, is a long-running radio and television program of classical music. The show featured leading singers in selections from opera and operetta. Originally titled The Firestone Hour, it was first broadcast on the NBC Radio network December 3, 1928 and was later also shown on...
  
  (1928–1957)
• The Voice of Truth (1943–present)
• Voice of Prophecy
  Voice Of Prophecy
  The Voice Of Prophecy is a long-running Seventh-day Adventist religious radio broadcast founded in 1929 by H.M.S. Richards, Sr.. Initially aired on a single radio station in Los Angeles it has since grown to numerous stations throughout the United States and Canada and more recently has begun...
  
  (1941–present)
• Vox Pop
  Vox Pop (radio)
  Vox Pop was a popular radio program of interviews, quizzes and human interest features, sometimes titled Sidewalk Interviews and Voice of the People...
  
  (1935–1947)
• Voyage of the Scarlet Queen
  Voyage of the Scarlet Queen
  Voyage of the Scarlet Queen was a radio adventure on the high seas, airing on Mutual from 3 July 1947 to 14 February 1948. James Burton produced the scripts by Gil Doud and Robert Tallman. Elliott Lewis starred as Philip Carney, master of the 78-foot ketch Scarlet Queen, with Ed Max as first mate...
  
  (1947–1948)

• Waffles Radio website (2006–present)
• Walter Winchell’s Journal
  Walter Winchell
  Walter Winchell was an American newspaper and radio gossip commentator.-Professional career:Born Walter Weinschel in New York City, he left school in the sixth grade and started performing in a vaudeville troupe known as Gus Edwards' "Newsboys Sextet."His career in journalism was begun by posting...
  
  (1932–1955)
• Walton & Johnson
• Waltz Time (1933–1948)
• Washington Merry-Go-Round (1935–1953)
• We Love and Learn (1942–1951)
• We, the People (1936–1951)
• Weekend 22
  Weekend 22
  The Weekend 22 is a Christian music countdown. The syndicated show is broadcast nationwide in the United States and is heard in over 150 cities across the country. The show is the flagship product AmpedCreative....
  
  (? - Present)
• Weekend Edition
  Weekend Edition
  Weekend Edition is the name given to a set of American radio news magazines produced and distributed by National Public Radio . It is the weekend counterpart to Morning Edition. It consists of Weekend Edition Saturday and Weekend Edition Sunday , each of which airs for two hours, from 8 a.m. to 10...
  
  (1985–present)
• Wendy Warren and the News (1947–1958)
• Whad'Ya Know? (1985–present)
• What’s My Name? (1938–1950)
• What’s the Name of That Song? (1944–1954)
• When a Girl Marries
  When a Girl Marries
  When a Girl Marries was a daytime radio drama which was broadcast on three major radio networks from 1939 to 1957. Created by Elaine Sterne Carrington , it was the highest rated soap opera during the mid-1940s.The series premiered May 29, 1939 on CBS, moving to NBC on September 29, 1941 and then to...
  
  (1939–1958)
• The Whisperer
  The Whisperer
  The Whisperer was an American old-time radio program which broadcast 13 episodes on late Sunday afternoons [5:00 p.m. Eastern] as a summer replacement from July 8 to September 30, 1951 on NBC.It was based on stories by Dr...
  
  (1951)
• The Whistler
  The Whistler
  The Whistler was an American radio mystery drama which ran from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955. It was sponsored by the Signal Oil Company: "That whistle is your signal for the Signal Oil program, The Whistler." The program was adapted into a film noir series by Columbia Pictures in...
  
  (1942–1955)
• The Wife Saver (1932–1942)
• Wilderness Road (1936–1945)
• Wings of Healing (1952–1963)
• Wings Over Jordan (1939–1949)
• Woman in White (1938–1947)
• The Woody Herman Show (1945–1956)
• Words and Music (1931–1945)
• World News Today (1941–1963)
• Worldview (1994–present)

Y

• You Bet Your Life
  You Bet Your Life
  You Bet Your Life is an American quiz show that aired on both radio and television. The original and best-known version was hosted by Groucho Marx of the Marx Brothers, with announcer and assistant George Fenneman. The show debuted on ABC Radio in October 1947, then moved to CBS Radio in September...
  
  (1947–1950)
• Young Dr. Malone (1939–1960)
• Young Widder Brown
  Young Widder Brown
  Young Widder Brown was a daytime radio drama series broadcast on NBC from 1938 to 1956. Sponsored by Sterling Drugs and Bayer Aspirin, it daily examined the life of "attractive Ellen Brown, with two fatherless children to support."...
  
  (1938–1956)
• Your Business Matters (2000–2004) on WVOX
  WVOX
  WVOX is a radio station in New Rochelle, New York. It is operated as a regional community station heard mainly in suburban Westchester County, the Bronx, Queens, the North Shore of Long Island, southern Connecticut and northern New Jersey. The station president is William O'Shaughnessy, and its...
  
  
• Your Goodtime Oldies Magazine (1992–1995)
• Your Hit Parade
  Your Hit Parade
  Your Hit Parade, is an American radio and television music program that was broadcast from 1935 to 1955 on radio, and seen from 1950 to 1959 on television. It was sponsored by American Tobacco's Lucky Strike cigarettes. During this 24-year run, the show had 19 orchestra leaders and 52 singers or...
  
  (1935–1959)
• Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama of "the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account — America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator." The show aired on CBS Radio from January 14, 1949 to September 30, 1962...
  
  (1949–1962)

Z

• The Zero Hour
  The Zero Hour (Rod Serling series)
  The Zero Hour was a 1973-74 radio drama anthology series hosted by Rod Serling. With tales of mystery, adventure and suspense, the program aired in stereo for two seasons...
  
  
• The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air
  The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air
  The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air, broadcast on CBS during the 1930s, attempted to bring the success of Florenz Ziegfeld's stage shows to the new medium of radio....
  
  

See also

• List of Canadian radio programs
• List of old-time radio people
• List of old-time radio programs
• List of UK radio programs