I have an old episode of The Shadow on MP3 and would like to listen to more some day, plus get into the Superman radio show. Other than that, I just have boring, normal "listening to the radio to and from work" attitudes towards the radio.

I used to listen to CBC radio a lot until about 10 or 15 years ago by which time all my favourite shows were cancelled and the general quality started to go downhill. But back in the day, I particularly loved were:

Gilmour's Albums - Sunday AM, the host played stuff from his vast record collection, mostly classical and jazz
Eclectic Circus - late-night 1-hour music show hosted by Alan McFee, who had a very odd sense of humour
Brave New Waves - midnight to 5 AM, hosted in the 80s by Augusta La Paix, later (and less engagingly, for me) by Brent Bambury; new music, mostly "alternative", i.e., stuff you wouldn't hear on regular FM much at the time
Night Lines - another after midnight show, hosted by David Wisdom from Vancouver, wide range of odd, often obscure pop music old and new
The Radio Show - Saturday afternoons from Winnipeg, hosted by Jack Farr, kind of magazine format with interviews, music, movie and book reviews, comedy
Finkelman's 45s - Saturday nights, Danny Finkelman played mostly pre-Beatles American pop, especially a lot of doo-wop stuff


I tell ya, these shows and others helped me through many a lonely hour when I was younger. There's something consoling about voices on the radio when they're quietly conversational in tone and not overdone in the typical North American DJ-style bombast that makes most radio unbearable for me.

Nowadays I listen regularly to Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone and its companion show The Freakier Zone on BBC online. I think a lot of people here would enjoy these if they haven't already tried them.

On the taxi-van to school, the driver would always have Radio 3FM on. The morning show from 6 to 9 was presented by Rob Stenders, and it was a show that featured a heavy dose of humour, in which Rob was aided by his sidekicks Fred Siebelink and Erik Dikeb.
Rob also has an encyclopedic knowledge of music, and has gone on to present very entertaining shows on Radio 2, which is aimed at an older audience. So while he has to adhere to the general playlist of the station, he'll often throw something in from left field, and that's really nice: an obscure, forgotten song, a new undiscovered gem, a favourite album track of his, and so forth.

When I moved to Amsterdam at age 16, I had trouble finding 3FM on my broken radio, but eventually I could afford a big Sony, and I was reunited with the station. As I was going through a pretty lonely time and also a period of inactivity, it was really nice to tune into this station, and many days I would have 3FM on all morning and afternoon. They had a better playlist than the standard commercial Top 40 stations back then (though only by a margin) and through them I discovered Arctic Monkeys, M.I.A., QotSA, etc. It got even better after 10pm, when there were deejays who were pretty much free to play their own taste entirely, so it was like being guided through unknown territory. It was great.
Unfortunately, in late 2006 3FM's management decided that the post-10pm programming was 'too daring', and that they might draw more listeners if they played more standard fare, so the 10pm-1am block got synchronized with the daytime programming in terms of playlist, and the 'alternative' deejays were given the sack.

In the 60s in Dallas there was WRR AM which was part of the Mutual Broadcasting Network. Mutual News at the top of the hour. Just before the news the station had a segment called Library of Laughs. They would play a bit from a comedy album. Usually by Jonathan Winters or Bob Newhart. Another comedy bit was called Ajax Liquor Store. I can't remember the two comedians who recorded it.

I also remember Mutual carrying some of the Ali/Frazier fights. But they could not carry them live. The announcers would talk during each round but when each round was over they would give a recap of what happened and how they scored it.

I remember listening to the Shadow on radio in the 70's. It was my first exposure to the character and the print version never quite lived up to it.

In the late 60s I found out about OTR and I went to some record stores looking for old shows on record. I found an LP titled Great Moments in Radio(I think) It had some short clips from shows like The Shadow, Gangbusters and it had the recording of the the Hindenburg going down in flames. It had a photo of a cathedral style radio receiver on the album cover.