It's been about ten years since I wrote for AOL's content team, and I'm excited to be back on their roster. Here's the first piece I did for the AOL Radio Blog:
Although news reporting had been a regular component of American broadcast radio since its invention, the "news radio" format didn't emerge until the end of the 1950s. Experiments in California and New York helped station owners combat an overall audience shift from radio to television for entertainment programming.