For a U.S. audience, Robert Altman's "A Prairie Home Companion" sums up the popular image of radio drama as a quaint but antiquated format. Audio-only plays may have been hugely successful in the ...

NEW YORK — Himan Brown, who created dramas that used sound effects like a creaking door and a steam engine to enthrall listeners during the golden age of radio, died June 4 in Manhattan. He was 99.

There was a moment, before easy listening, drive time, Top 40 and the blandishments of Pandora, when radio was known for its affinity for the dark end of the street, for its ability to have you in its ...

In the late 1970s and 1980s, public radio responded to the needs and interests of local communities often ignored or sidelined by commercial and mainstream media outlets. Radio Cadena, KDNA 91.9 FM, ...