National Radio HOF Announces 2014 Inductees

For the first time since 1992, the induction ceremony for the National Radio Hall of Fame will not take place in Chicago. 

The Nov. 9 event will be held in Los Angeles, though no venue has yet been selected.

According to a statement released by Bruce DuMont, founder and president of the Museum of Broadcast Communications — which is the home of the radio hall of fame — the decision to move the 2014 ceremony was influenced by the fact that “there are many Radio Hall of Famers living in southern California and several 2014 inductees.”

Delilah

Along with Dick Orkin of “Chickenman” fame and Ira Glass of “This American Life”, the other 2014 Radio Hall of Fame inductees will be veteran New York talk show host Barry Farber; Jon Miller, the voice of the San Francisco Giants, syndicated radio duo Charlie Brown and Irv Harrigan (known as Jack Woods and Paul Menard); and posthumously famed actress Agnes Moorehead (who got her start in radio) and Stanley Hubbard, the radio pioneer and longtime head of Minneapolis-based Hubbard Broadcasting.

The Nov. 9 fete will be emceed by nationally-syndicated radio personality Delilah and broadcast live in a two show produced and distributed by Premiere Networks.