Key Takeaways
- Event Details: Kim Komando will host the 2025 Radio Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Chicago on October 30.
- Notable Inductees: Alice Cooper and Martha Quinn are among the inductees for 2025.
- Ticket Information: Tickets are available for purchase, with part of the proceeds going to charity.
- Induction Ceremony: The event will celebrate the contributions of 11 individuals to the radio industry.
UPDATE (Oct. 16): Kim Komando, one of the most successful self-syndicated radio hosts and digital media entrepreneurs in the U.S., is set to host the 2025 Radio Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Swissotel Hotel in Chicago on Thursday, Oct. 30. Komando was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame four years ago.
Komando is best-known for hosting The Kim Komando Show, the largest weekend radio show in the U.S. It airs across 420 radio stations to an estimated six million plus listeners. Komando is also host of the Daily Tech Update and Digital Life Hacks reports, heard on 390 radio stations across the U.S. Komando hosts a tech-business oriented radio show each week on SiriusXM. With more than 700,000 subscribers, The Current — Komando’s daily newsletter — commands one of the highest open rates in digital media. She has also been a columnist for USA Today since 2002, and with the Daily Mail since 2020.
Tickets to the 2025 Radio Hall of Fame induction ceremony are on sale now at www.radiohalloffame.com. A portion of ticket purchases is a tax-deductible charitable donation to the Museum of Broadcast Communications.
PREVIOUSLY (June 30): Alice Cooper, host of Nights With Alice Cooper and Alice’s Attic, and Martha Quinn, host of The Martha Quinn Show, are among the 2025 inductees into the Radio Hall of Fame.
Cooper, who topped the Billboard 200 in 1973 with his album Billion Dollar Babies, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. He is just the second person who was inducted as a performer in the Rock Hall to also be admitted to the Radio Hall of Fame, following R&B legend James Brown. (Four other Radio Hall inductees were honored by the Rock Hall in the non-performer category: Alan Freed, Sam Phillips, Dick Clark and Don Cornelius.)
Quinn gained pop-culture immortality as one of MTV’s five original VJs when that culture-shaking channel launched in 1981, along with Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, J.J. Jackson and Nina Blackwood. Quinn is the first of these five VJs to join the Radio Hall of Fame.
On Monday (June 30), the Museum of Broadcast Communications announced the selection of 10 new inductees – nine individuals and one team (Bob Lacey and Sheri Lynch of The Bob & Sheri Show) – into the Radio Hall of Fame for 2025. They will be honored at the in-person 2025 Radio Hall of Fame Induction ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 30 at the Swissotel Hotel in Chicago.
Six of the ten inductees were determined by a voting participant panel comprised of more than 900 industry professionals. The other four inductees were voted on by the Radio Hall of Fame 2025 nominating committee.
“Our 2025 Induction Ceremony and Celebration will be a special, standing-room-only event honoring the talents, history and contributions of eleven incredible people,” Kraig Kitchin, co-chair of the Radio Hall of Fame, said in a statement. “I cannot wait to celebrate the careers and impact of these men and women who’ve made a forever positive impact on the radio industry!”
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Dennis Green, co-chair of the Radio Hall of Fame, added: “These Radio Hall of Famers have entertained us, informed us, and helped to bring special moments to our lives through a medium that does this better than any other.”
The Radio Hall of Fame was founded by the Emerson Radio Corporation in 1988. The Museum of Broadcast Communications took over operations of the Hall in 1991.
Tickets for the 2025 Radio Hall of Fame Induction ceremony are on sale now at the Radio Hall of Fame site. Individual tickets are $595 per person. A portion of ticket purchases is a tax-deductible charitable donation to the Museum of Broadcast Communications, home to the Radio Hall of Fame.
Here’s the full list of inductees for the Radio Hall of Fame in 2025:
INDUCTED
Tom Carballo (Mojo), Mojo in the Morning – WKQI FM / Detroit
Alice Cooper, Nights With Alice Cooper/Alice’s Attic
Colin Cowherd, The Herd with Colin Cowherd
DeDe McGuire, DeDe in the Morning
Mike McVay, McVay Media
Martha Quinn, The Martha Quinn Show, iHeartMedia
Bob Lacey and Sheri Lynch, The Bob & Sheri Show
Scott Simon, Weekend Edition Saturday, National Public Radio
Shelley “The Playboy” Stewart
Julie Talbott, Premiere Networks
For record purposes, here are nominees for induction into the Radio Hall of Fame for this year who were not selected:
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NOT INDUCTED
Bert Weiss
Big D & Bubba
Bob and Sheri
Bob Sirott
Bob Stroud
D.L. Hughley
Enrique Santos
Funkmaster Flex
Joey Reynolds
John Garabedian
John Kobylt & Ken Chiampou , co-hosts
of
The John & Ken Show
Kevin Matthews
Kid Leo
Larry Elder
Laurie De Young
Mark “Hawkeye” Louis
Raul Brindis
Bert Weiss
Big D & Bubba
Bob and Sheri
Bob Sirott
Bob Stroud
D.L. Hughley
Enrique Santos
Funkmaster Flex
Joey Reynolds
John Garabedian
John Kobylt & Ken Chiampou , co-hosts
of
The John & Ken Show
Kevin Matthews
Kid Leo
Larry Elder
Laurie De Young
Mark “Hawkeye” Louis
Raul Brindis
