Radio

A group of unhappy KDHX listeners and former DJs asked a court to recognize the results of a vote by volunteers to add three new members to the station’s board and remove two of its current members.

As critics of KDHX leaders seek a resolution to long-running disputes, listeners miss many once-familiar on-air voices.

About 50 KDHX DJs and other volunteers voted Tuesday to remove two board members and install three new people to the board. Station leaders said the votes have no legal standing.

Station leaders dismissed 10 volunteer DJs on Friday and told another 12 they must complete a mediation process to stay on the air. The leaders say they are parting ways with volunteers who have resisted KDHX's enhanced focus on diversity.

An East St. Louis radio station helped hook listeners in the St. Louis region on hip-hop back in 1979. That’s when New York record executives Joe and Sylvia Robinson sent the song “Rapper's Delight” to WESL. Former WESL owner Gentleman Jim Gates discusses the moment.

Ashley “Lux” Elzinga is now a social media content creator promoting medical marijuana brands after leaving her job of 15 years as a DJ for the Point on 105.7.

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, so do broadcasts of what critics decry as Kremlin-funded propaganda on KCXL, a radio station in Liberty, Missouri. Pressure is mounting for KXCL to end broadcasts that have kept the station in business.

Joy Grdnic Christensen is handing her restaurant off to new owners and gearing up for a new adventure.

Explore the soundscape of Bosnia-Herzegovina in Classic 107's “Musical Ancentries” program.

On Nov. 2, 1920, William E. Woods made St. Louis’ first radio broadcast, announcing election results from his home on De Tonty Street out to the airwaves. Frank Absher of the St. Louis Media History Foundation explained how on "St. Louis on the Air."