WASHINGTON — When J. David Goldin saw the recorded interview of baseball great Babe Ruth for sale on eBay he knew something was wrong. There was only one original record of that 1937 interview of Ruth on a hunting trip, ...

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Remember the time on “30 Rock” when Tina Fey’s character, Liz Lemon, got out of jury duty by dressing up as Princess Leia and pretending she actually thought she was the Star Wars character? “I really don’t think it’s fair for ...

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ATLANTA — In a graphic new ad campaign announced Thursday, the government is trying to shock smokers into quitting with the sometimes-gruesome stories of people damaged by tobacco products. The new effort confronts a hard truth: Despite increased tobacco taxes ...

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WBAL-AM’s Ron Smith, the long-time talk-show host known as “The Voice of Reason,” has died. He was 70. The Baltimore radio station says Smith died Monday night at his home in Shrewsbury, Pa., surrounded by his wife and family. Smith ...

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WASHINGTON — One of the nation’s top-grossing radio stations announced plans Wednesday to reorganize and expand its Washington newsroom to make online news as high a priority as radio and in some cases break news online first. Washington’s WTOP Radio ...

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NEWARK, N.J. — For one weekend a year, the ghosts and survivors of Jack Benny, Benny Goodman, Goodman Ace and hundreds of other legends of the old days of radio hold court at a hotel across the road from Newark ...

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I was struck recently by a radio ad for an insurance company in which the narrator described a situation where a patient went to two doctors and received two different medications. When the patient went to the pharmacist to have ...

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In a lengthy blog post, Baltimore sports radio station owner and personality Nestor Aparicio expressed more relief than vindication Monday at sports reporter Jennifer Royle’s decision to drop an $800,000 defamation claim against him and two radio hosts for a ...

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For those of you who listened to — and missed — alternative rock radio station HFS, it has returned. Some of the same music, along with its familiar DJ personalities, are coming back on 97.5 FM, or WWMX 106.5 HD2. ...

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FREDERICK — Josh Brooks knows radio. Brooks, now the national sales manager for 99.9 WFRE and 930 WFMD in Frederick, interviewed musicians including Allen Toussaint and Stevie Wonder during his days as a disc jockey at 102.3 WHFS in the ...

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