Radio

On Thursday, July 11 – exactly 30 years to the day that he started his first shift at the radio station – Sam Ramirez will celebrate the three decades he has spent behind the mic at WRCV/WIXN.

Kaneville resident Dan Zielenski and his four sons are all amateur ham radio operators and members of the now 100-year-old Fox River Radio League

Radio audience festivities in store as 1340 WJOL’s Scott Slocum returns to Joliet after a cross-country trip on Route 66.

The sale of three radio stations to Shaw Local Radio Company was completed Monday.

"As I flip the page on the calendar from March to April, I find myself just one year away from my fourth decade in the radio business," Cyndi Young-Puyear writes in her latest column.

WCSF-FM 88.7 is once again presenting the Spirit of Christmas, a 24-hour, commercial-free, holiday format featuring music, classic specials and more.

Starting at noon on Thanksgiving Day, University of St. Francis radio station WCSF-FM 88.7 begins its 30th season of the Spirit of Christmas, a 24-hour, commercial-free, season-long holiday format.

On his next weekly entertainment news podcast, Rikki Lee Travolta interviews Andy Mientus, performing in “Jim Henson’s Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas” in Chicago.

The groundbreaking comedian is a regular panelist on NPR’s comedy news quiz “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!”

The weekly show features guests representing the best of film, television, stage, music and literature.

The radio show and podcast will highlight the writer of “Shutter Speed,” which will be showcased in a Sept. 17 stage reading in St. Charles.

His entertainment projects include Chicago-area restaurants, concert venues and cultural festivals under the Onesti Entertainment banner.

Hollywood writer and producer Anthony Sparks to appear on the ‘It’s Showtime With Rikki Lee" radio broadcast at 3 p.m. April 7, hosted by Rikki Lee Travolta of Woodstock.

The movie is a thriller with dark comedy undertones. In addition, Rikki Lee Travolta just garnered his ninth screenplay award for his original thriller about Elvis Presley.

Rikki Lee Travolta of Woodstock says Erica Stephan is the talk of Chicago for her stunning interpretation of Sally Bowles in Porchlight Music Theatre’s mounting of “Cabaret.”

The Friday afternoon radio show and podcast “It’s Showtime With Rikki Lee” this week features an interview with The Zeros' lead singer Sammy Serious.