Radio

David Bazzel (1963–)
David Bazzel is an Arkansas media personality, public speaker, and sports promoter who came to Arkansas at age...
ReShonda Tate Billingsley (1969–)
ReShonda Tate Billingsley is a journalist, public speaker, publisher, editor, ghostwriter, and producer; howev...
Bob Burns (1890–1956)
aka: Robin Burn
Bob Burns was a well-known national radio and film personality duri...
Opie Cates (1909–1987)
Opie Cates was a popular bandleader, musician, and radio personality, known as one of the great clarinetists o...
Central Arkansas Radio Emergency Network (CAREN)
The Central Arkansas Radio Emergency Net (CAREN) is the oldest of several amateur radio clubs in the central A...
"Dizzy" Dean (1910–1974)
aka: Jay Hanna Dean
Jay Hanna “Dizzy” Dean was a professional baseball player and r...
Paul Irving Eells (1935–2006)
Paul Irving Eells was a radio and television broadcaster for University of Arkansas (UA) Razorback sports from...
Jim Elder (1924–1998)
aka: James Albert Elder
James Albert (Jim) Elder was a sports announcer and analyst whose d...
"Tuffy" Goff (1906–1978)
aka: Findley Norris Goff
Findley Norris Goff and his partner, Chet Lauck, created Lum and Ab...
Billy Farrel (Bill) Johnson (1939–)
Billy Farrel Johnson of Conway (Faulkner County) is a well-known banker, broadcaster, and civic leader in Faul...
KAAY
KAAY (AM 1090) has been one of Arkansas’s most influential radio stations since it came into being on Septem...
KABF
The KABF radio station (FM 88.3) in Little Rock (Pulaski County) began broadcasting an eclectic mix of music, ...
KASU [Radio Station]
KASU, broadcasting at 91.9 FM, is a public radio station that was licensed in 1957 to Arkansas State Universit...
KBTA
KBTA-AM is a radio station in Batesville (Independence County) broadcasting a sports radio format. The station...
KBTM [Radio Station]
KBTM was among Arkansas’s early radio stations, with the AM frequency (1230) officially hitting the air in P...
King Biscuit Time
In November 1941, KFFA, 1360 AM, the first local radio station in Helena (Phillips County), went on the air. S...
KMJX FM [Radio Station]
aka: Magic 105
aka: The Wolf 105.1
KMJX is one of Arkansas’s longest-running radio stations. KMJX st...
KOKY
Called the “Greater Little Rock Ebony Station” at its inception in 1956, KOKY was the first radio station ...
KTHS
KTHS, which became KAAY in 1962, is thought to be Arkansas’s third-oldest continuously licensed broadcast ra...
KUAF
KUAF began broadcasting as a ten-watt station in January 1973 from a renovated clapboard house on Duncan Stree...
KUOA
Radio station KUOA started at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County) and later be...
KWEM
The landscape of American music was on the brink of change when KWEM began its first broadcast on February 23,...
Chet Lauck (1902–1980)
aka: Chester Harris Lauck
Chester Harris (Chet) Lauck and his partner, Norris “Tuffy” Gof...
Lum and Abner
From 1931 to 1955, the Lum and Abner radio show brought the town of Pine Ridge (Montgomery County), into the h...
Pat Lynch (1950–2021)
Joseph Patrick (Pat) Lynch of Little Rock (Pulaski County) was a longtime Arkansas radio personality, newspape...
James "Uncle Mac" MacKrell (1902–1972)
James “Uncle Mac” MacKrell made a name for himself in Arkansas, first through radio and then through polit...
Paula Marie Martin (1967–)
Paula Martin is a writer and educator best known for her work as the host and producer of the radio show Tales...
David Miller (1928–)
David Freeland Miller, who maintains a broadcasting studio in his Little Rock (Pulaski County) home, is produc...
"Sunshine" Sonny Payne (1925–2018)
aka: John William Payne
“Sunshine” Sonny Payne was the longtime host of King Biscuit Ti...
Bob Robbins (1944–2022)
aka: Robert Spears
Bob Robbins became a fixture of Arkansas radio in 1967, when he beg...
Tales from the South
Tales from the South was a nationally recognized radio show. During its first year in 2005, shows were record...
Harold L. "Brother Hal" Webber (1926–2005)
Harold L. “Brother Hal” Webber was a popular morning announcer on the Little Rock (Pulaski County) radio s...