For decades, Eliot Stein has kept mum about something that bewildered San Diego fans of Top 40 radio music in the late ’60s and early ’70s. He and his twin brother, Neil, had the uncanny “luck” of ...

Everyone loves the Top 40 hits, and this goes back to at least the 1950s. How did we arrive at “40” as the number of songs that are counted? Why not 50, or 25 or even 10? Renowned rock journalist Ben ...

Fifty years this month, May 5, 1965, Boss Radio 93 KHJ in Los Angeles (or as it was referred to at times as "Boss" Angeles) hard launched its Top 40 format on the 930 AM frequency. Little did it know ...

The mid-1970s was a strange time for radio. FM still had not become the dominant band, but it was making inroads and many AM stations didn’t know how to react. This led to some grave mistakes. Think ...

I’ve never been a fan of the iHeart Radio app that you can download to your smartphone. I always thought it too cumbersome to use compared to alternatives, and I don’t like the way iHeart restricts ...