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Regular radioinfo contributor Ian MacRae posts industry news that comes into the categories of rumour, gossip, scandal and radio people behaving badly. Macca encourages you to submit anything you think fits and is keen to receive any feedback on stuff you see here. You can contact him at ian@allaboutradio.net
Radio legend quits in middle of his show
It happened in Cleveland when John Lanigan, (pictured), announced that day’s show on WTAM would be his last.
For the past four years, Lanigan had done a one-hour (9:00 am – 10:00 am) program called “The Spew” on the iHeartMedia news/talk station. After a segment on the worst presidents in history, however, Lanigan diverted...
11 August 2018
Masked man enters radio station studio and shoots DJ in Wisconsin
A man wearing a mask and hood entered a Wisconsin radio station early on a Sunday morning and opened fire on three disc jockeys in the broadcast studio.
WORT FM, a radio station based in Madison, said in a statement that five gunshots were fired, injuring one DJ in the buttocks and shattering the glass between studios.
The injured DJ was...
09 August 2018
China professor missing after radio interview is interrupted
The whereabouts of a Chinese professor known for his views critical of the government remains after police interrupted his radio interview with U.S. government broadcaster Voice of America.
Sun Wenguang was speaking to the station when he says that half a dozen officers barged into his apartment in the eastern city of Jinan. He can be heard...
09 August 2018
Radio host Art Bell died of accidental drug overdose: coroner
Longtime Nevada based radio personality Art Bell died of an accidental overdose from a cocktail of prescription drugs according to the Clark County coroner’s office..
Bell died April 13 in a bedroom of his Pahrump home at age 72. The coroner’s office determined he had four prescription medications in his system: the opioid oxycodone...
02 August 2018
Radio announcer shot dead in the Philippines
Radio broadcaster Joey Llana (pictured) was shot and killed while driving his car to Legazpi for his radio program on 92.3 FM Home Radio Legazpi when he was ambushed.
Police said Llana, 43, was shot 14 times with a .45-caliber gun and a 9mm pistol by unidentified gunmen.
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24 July 2018
Adolf Hitler speech transmitted on police radios across Chicago
An Adolf Hitler speech shown in a 1935 Nazi propaganda film was broadcast over Chicago police radios in an unauthorised transmission. (Who would actually authorise it anyway?)
The audio was from a speech made by the Nazi leader in Leni Riefenstahl's production of 'Triumph of the Will', according to Imke Meyer...
09 July 2018
Radio hosts banned from Facebook over nude photo
Triple J Breakfast time hosts Ben Harvey and Liam Stapleton, have copped a Facebook ban after posting a naked photo of themselves in support of struggling farmers.
They stripped off to pose for Instagram page The Naked Farmer, to support those in the agricultural industry with mental health issues.
Posing...
19 June 2018
BBC radio host chokes up recalling mum left final letter
Chris Evans broke down on air after he returned to BBC Radio 2 to host his breakfast show following his mother Minnie's death. She was 92.
The DJ became very emotional as he revealed she had left his family a letter before she died. “My sister phones me up and she says you’ll never guess what I’ve just found.
She’s left us a...
08 May 2018
Kanye West's music banned after slavery remarks
Detroit radio station 105.1 The Bounce has banned Kanye West’s music from its airwaves.
In a Facebook post, dj’s BiGG & Shay Shay said: “We feel like Kanye has gone too far with his latest statement declaring that ‘slavery was a choice. We are over it. We don’t want to hear Kanye’s music. So we are taking a stand and we aren’t...
08 May 2018
Paranormal radio host Art Bell dead at 72
Art Bell, a radio host best known for a paranormal-themed nightly show, syndicated on hundreds of stations in the 1990s, has died at his home in southern Nevada.
Bell hosted the popular radio talk show "Coast to Coast AM" before he left the airwaves in 2002. He broadcast the show from his radio station, KNYE, in Pahrump.
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15 April 2018
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