6-27-13
The National Radio Hall of Fame announces its 2013 inductees: KSCA/Los Angeles-based personality Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo (pictured), Chicago radio legends Steve Dahl and Garry Meier, After MidNite host Blair Garner, John Lanigan of WJMI/Cleveland's Lanigan & Malone, WJR/Detroit talk host Paul W. Smith, and Dodgers broadcaster Charlie Steiner. There will be a posthumous induction for Powel Crosley Jr. of Crosley Radio Corp.
Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo, heard in mornings on Spanish-language KSCA/Los Angeles and syndicated nationally by Univision Radio, has one of the most popular shows on L.A. radio. Steve Dahl and Garry Meier teamed up in 1979 on WLUP/Chicago, where Dahl was doing mornings and Meier overnights. They were heard on crosstown WLS-AM & FM for a few years, and later returned to WLUP.
Blair Garner has hosted the Premiere-syndicated AfterMidnite from Nashville for more than 20 years, and recently added the morning show at Cumulus' WNSH (NASH FM) in New York. AfterMidnite airs six hours nightly and is heard on about 230 affiliates. John Lanigan is the longtime co-host of the Lanigan & Malone Show on WJMI/Cleveland, while Paul W. Smith has been heard on WJR since 1996. He's also been heard filling in for Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and has hosted shows on ABC Radio Network and the Financial News Network. Charlie Steiner, now doing play-by-play for the L.A. Dodgers, before that spent three years with the Yankees. He earlier spent 14 years at ESPN, anchoring SportsCenter and doing Major League Baseball play-by-play on ESPN Radio and TV.
Powel Crosley Jr., who with his father founded Crosley Radio Corp., will be inducted posthumously. Crosley Radio launched WLW/Cincinnati in 1922.
Tickets to the black tie induction ceremony, set for November 9 at the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, are available at www.radiohof.org, or call 312.245.8200. The ceremony will be hosted by broadcast legend Larry King.
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