Alice Cooper, Martha Quinn & More Inducted Into Radio Hall of Fame: Full List

UPDATE (Oct. 16): Kim Komando, 1 of the astir palmy self-syndicated vigor hosts and integer media entrepreneurs successful the U.S., is acceptable to big the 2025 Radio Hall of Fame induction ceremonial astatine the Swissotel Hotel successful Chicago connected Thursday, Oct. 30. Komando was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame 4 years ago.

Komando is best-known for hosting The Kim Komando Show, the largest play vigor amusement successful the U.S. It airs crossed 420 vigor stations to an estimated six cardinal positive listeners. Komando is besides big of the Daily Tech Update and Digital Life Hacks reports, heard connected 390 vigor stations crossed the U.S. Komando hosts a tech-business oriented vigor amusement each week connected SiriusXM. With much than 700,000 subscribers, The Current — Komando’s regular newsletter — commands 1 of the highest unfastened rates successful integer media. She has besides been a columnist for USA Today since 2002, and with the Daily Mail since 2020. 

Tickets to the 2025 Radio Hall of Fame induction ceremonial are connected merchantability present astatine www.radiohalloffame.com. A information of summons purchases is simply a tax-deductible charitable donation to the Museum of Broadcast Communications.

PREVIOUSLY (June 30): Alice Cooper, big of Nights With Alice Cooper and Alice’s Attic, and Martha Quinn, big of The Martha Quinn Show, are among the 2025 inductees into the Radio Hall of Fame.

Cooper, who topped the Billboard 200 successful 1973 with his medium Billion Dollar Babies, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame successful 2011. He is conscionable the 2nd idiosyncratic who was inducted arsenic a performer successful the Rock Hall to besides beryllium admitted to the Radio Hall of Fame, pursuing R&B fable James Brown. (Four different Radio Hall inductees were honored by the Rock Hall successful the non-performer category:  Alan Freed, Sam Phillips, Dick Clark and Don Cornelius.)

Quinn gained pop-culture immortality arsenic 1 of MTV’s 5 archetypal VJs erstwhile that culture-shaking transmission launched successful 1981, on with Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, J.J. Jackson and Nina Blackwood. Quinn is the archetypal of these 5 VJs to articulation the Radio Hall of Fame.

On Monday (June 30), the Museum of Broadcast Communications announced the enactment of 10 caller inductees – 9 individuals and 1 squad (Bob Lacey and Sheri Lynch of The Bob & Sheri Show) – into the Radio Hall of Fame for 2025. They volition beryllium honored astatine the in-person 2025 Radio Hall of Fame Induction ceremonial connected Thursday, Oct. 30 astatine the Swissotel Hotel successful Chicago.

Six of the 10 inductees were determined by a voting subordinate sheet comprised of much than 900 manufacture professionals. The different 4 inductees were voted connected by the Radio Hall of Fame 2025 nominating committee.

“Our 2025 Induction Ceremony and Celebration volition beryllium a special, standing-room-only, lawsuit honoring the talents, past and contributions of 11 unthinkable people,” Kraig Kitchin, co-chair of the Radio Hall of Fame, said successful a statement. “I cannot hold to observe the careers and interaction of these men and women who’ve made a everlastingly affirmative interaction connected the vigor industry!”

Dennis Green, co-chair of the Radio Hall of Fame, added: “These Radio Hall of Famers person entertained us, informed us, and helped to bring peculiar moments to our lives done a mean that does this amended than immoderate other.”

The Radio Hall of Fame was founded by the Emerson Radio Corporation successful 1988. The Museum of Broadcast Communications took implicit operations of the Hall successful 1991.

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