Tony Petkovsek is to Northeastern Ohio polka fans what Dick Goddard is to weather followers. Both have been on the air for 50 years, and both have loyal listeners and viewers, but Petkovsek is ...

It wasn’t until I served as a judge last September at the 17th annual Slovenian Sausage Festival that I realized just how many folks share a Slovenian heritage here in Northeast Ohio. And many of the ...

The last waltz is coming soon for a Jackson radio institution, Joseph “Polka Joe” Pancerz. Polka Joe's last show will be Dec. 27 on WIBM, 1450 AM, ending 44 years as Sunday-morning host of "Polka Time ...

After his show airs on WPNA 1490 AM Sunday morning, Keith Stras is hanging up his headphones and turning off his microphone a final time at his in-home studio in Elgin and retiring from the local ...

Recently, classic-rock fans in the Champlain Valley tuning to Barre’s 107.1 “Frank” FM were surprised to find that, rather than their daily fix of “More Than a Feeling” and “Rock You Like a Hurricane, ...

Expect less polka, but plenty of great music you've probably never heard. That's the message the buyer of Jolly Joe Timmer's WGPA-AM Sunny 1100 in Bethlehem has for Lehigh Valley listeners. Timmer, ...

KINGSTON, N.Y., Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Bronislaw Hudela, host of a weekly New York-area radio program since 1948, has died at 88 after an illness, his family said. Hudela had hosted "Polkatime Sunday" on ...

Grammy nominated Polka band Lenny Gomulka and Chicago Push performed on the lawn at Heritage Woods in Agawam, in 2008. (Republican file photo) I have many reasons to consider myself fortunate. For one ...

OLYPHANT – Every week from a home studio in her home, Natalie Gubala-Magdon brings a traditional style of music to the public in a new, technologically advanced way. Her devotion to polka runs so deep ...

ANDOVER (WCCO)-- A 6-year-old polka drummer from Andover is snaring lots of attention on YouTube, with his talents reaching more than 1,000 hits a day. Christopher Ebel started playing on a toy drum ...