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I’m bummed out that long-running (and most popular) NPR program CarTalk is ending original broadcasts in the fall.
‘Car Talk’ Guys Are Retiring, But Their Best Stuff Will Be Rebroadcast – NPR
June 8, 2012; Our Fair City – Tom and Ray Magliozzi, aka Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers, the comedian mechanics who host NPR’s [...]

Longtime radio broadcaster Pat Boland dies – CDT
Pat Boland, a name and voice familiar to the Penn State and State College communities succumbed to brain cancer. He was 42. I remember Boland mostly for his radio work with Phil Grosz of Blue White Illustrated and pre- and post-game of Nittany Lions games.
h/t @scrappled

UPDATED 07.06.2011
Radio reporter [...]

There are apparently sports talk radio warz going on (visit DC Sports Bog if you really want to find out more) which has me thinking one thing — I miss Ken Beatrice!
For the uninitiated, Beatrice was a long-time host of a sports call-in show on WMAL (back when it was a real local radio station) [...]

Good news — The Washington Nationals Radio Network is apparently moving to FM. Nats Insider reports today that 106.7 WJFK aka “The Fan” will start carrying the Nats. Incumbent station, WFED 1500 AM will continue carrying the team as well, even though it is owned by Bonneville (for now) and WJFK is owned by CBS.
While, [...]

At Baseball on the Barn on Friday night, the word around the campfire was that the Washington Nationals have not signed radio duo Charlie Slowes and Dave Jageler to a contract for next season and beyond. This is the kind of thing that the Nats have a terrible tendency to do — turn simple things [...]

Mike O’Meara, off the air since CBS radio canned him last summer, is returning to Washington D.C. airways this Wednesday. He’ll be half of a new 105.9 FM The Edge morning show with Kirk McEwen, currently in afternoon drive, but best known as part of the old Kirk, Mark & Lopez show at Baltimore’s 98 [...]

I am pleased that Ron Weber, original radio voice of the Washington Capitals, won the 2010 Foster Hewitt Memorial Award (press release via WashingtonCaps.com). He’ll get it at the Hockey Hall of Fame induction weekend in November.
While I was not a huge hockey fan growing up, I used to listen to Weber regularly in addition [...]

The long awaited return to radio by Don Geronimo on June 21 will be in Sacramento, often a target of the Don and Mike Show’s ire. He is excited about the deal and will probably be syndicated eventually. If he shows up here, I’ll probably listen.
Meanwhile, his ex-partner Mike O’Meara continues to produce a one-hour [...]

With this Web radio gig, who needs FM? – The PostNow about 2.5 months into his podcast, Mike O’Meara has recouped his original investment through sponsorships and donation and looking to expand into video. The podcast has about 15,000 listeners, 40% from the D.C. area.
I have not listen to the podcast much because I’m stuck [...]

After a hiatus of several months, the Mike O’Meara Show returns as a podcast today on mikeomearashow.com. O’Meara, plus Robb Spiewak, Buzz Burbank and new cast member Oscar Santana, formerely of the Big O & Dukes show will be “broadcasting” at 1 p.m. daily. Still no over-the-air gig for the show, though DCRTV posted rumors [...]