Nationally syndicated for over 20 years!

When Radio Was brings listeners the very best of the Golden Age of Radio. Packed with classic performers, iconic characters, and top-flight story-telling, When Radio Was is pure timeless entertainment:

• Detectives and Crime Fighters – Return to the scene of the crime with The Shadow, Sam Spade, The Green Hornet, Gang Busters, Sherlock Holmes, and many more!
• Comedy Classics – Laugh along with the great performers – Jack Benny, Abbott & Costello, Red Skelton, Our Miss Brooks, Burns & Allen and many others!
• Drama, Westerns, Mysteries, Thrillers, Sci-Fi – Enjoy classic western adventure with Hopalong Cassidy, the top stars of Hollywood in Screen Director’s Playhouse, chilling horror in Lights Out, and so much more!

Each broadcast edition of When Radio Was features the shows that have a life of their own. The ones that will be remembered for generations to come. And, our programs have been digitally remastered and restored to provide optimum listener enjoyment.

While decades have passed since their original airdates, the shows offered in When Radio Was are pure entertainment, just as fresh and thrilling today as they were back in radio’s heyday.

Join the hundreds of AM and FM stations around the country who are delivering top-flight entertainment to their listeners devoted audiences to their advertisers.

Program Directors Love WHEN RADIO WAS!

Here are just some of the reasons why stations rave about our show:

• It appeals to a broad cross-section of listeners-young and old alike
• Loyal audiences grow with each ratings period
• Listeners can’t get enough of these unique, high-quality programs
• It consistently beats typical talk, news and music programming
• It stands out from the competition – there is nothing else like it!

Chad Benson doesn’t look or sound like a typical talk radio host. His conversational, informative and FUNNY take on the issues has been a refreshing addition to talk stations around the country. Listeners love Chad’s take on the hard news delivered in a thoughtful and entertaining way. And that explains why Chad is featured on some of the most highly rated talk stations in the country and delivers the demos that talk radio needs most.

Listen to “The Chad Benson Show Promos” on Spreaker.

 Listen to “The Chad Benson Show Promos” on Spreaker.

“Chad is reinventing the talk format” Bill White, Program Director, KFBK-AM/FM iHeart Media Sacramento

His current affiliates include: KTAR-FM Phoenix, KXL-FM, Portland, KSTE Sacramento, WIBC-FM Indianapolis, WOKV-FM Jacksonville, WDBO Orlando and KRMG-AM/FM Tulsa–just to name a few.

[Inside Radio – Talking the Talk Right Means More than Just Politics]

Chad is part of a New Generation of talk hosts that is able to connect with talk’s existing demo while bringing new and younger listeners into the format. Chad is an accomplished talk show host boasting over 22 years experience in the entertainment industry.

“Great Storyteller and humorous” Ryan Hatch, Program Director, KTAR-FM Bonneville Phoenix

[All Access: 10 Questions with Chad Benson]

Chad started in music radio in the 1990s at the legendary KRTH in Los Angeles as the Executive Producer of the Robert W. Morgan Show and has also been the voice of several cartoon characters over the years including Hanna Barbera’s Droopy the Dog.

“Chad is talk radio’s next generation host” Levi May, Director of Branding & Programming, KRMG-AM/FM CMG Tulsa

[Inside Radio – Syndication’s Next Generation: Chad Benson]

In his early years, fresh out of school, Chad left everything he knew at home in Southern California to play professional soccer in Europe and was talented enough to be signed onto the rosters of several teams including the Bristol Rovers, the Fallkirk Scotland and the Portsmouth Football Club.  Chad still kicks the soccer ball around a bit now but mostly with his 10 year old son Jack.

Dana Loesch is the number one nationally-syndicated female talk radio host in the country and hosts her award-winning show, The Dana Show, from Dallas, Texas. Her original brand of young, entertaining conservatism has found a fast-growing multi-platform audience. As one of the leading talkers of the “next generation”, her funny and feisty personality has connected with talk listeners of all ages. More below…

Listen to “The Dana Show Promos” on Spreaker.

Listen to “The Dana Show Promos” on Spreaker.

Dana is the author of three books, the national best-seller Hands Off My Gun: Defeating the Plot to Disarm America which turned the tide in the gun control debate, Flyover Nation: You Can’t Run a Country You’ve Never Been to, which predicted the coastal-flyover divide and sentiment that decided the 2016 election; and Grace Canceled detailing the country’s cancel culture and denial of redemption.

Dana appears regularly on television news and has provided election analysis/commentary for Fox, ABC, CNN and HBO. A Second Amendment advocate for well over a decade, Dana is one of the nation’s premier voices for gun rights, having represented gun owners on CNN’s infamous town hall on gun control in the wake of the Parkland tragedy.

A Christian, wife, mother, and dog lover, when Dana is not behind the mic, camera, or traveling around the country speaking on various issues, she enjoys playing video games, reading historical biographies, visiting her home gun range, baking, crochet and dark wave music.