The year 1970 in radio saw the debut of a nationally sydicated music countdown show and the incorporation of NPR.

Mehdi Hasan is a British journalist who has worked in television current affairs and the national press.

After graduating from Christ Church, Oxford in 2000, with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), he began his working life answering the phones on the ITN newsdesk, before working as a researcher and then producer on LWT's Jonathan Dimbleby programme, with a brief period in between on BBC1's The Politics Show. He then became deputy executive producer on Sky's breakfast show Sunrise before moving to Channel 4 in June 2007 as their editor of news and current affairs.

He has appeared four times on the BBC Question Time: on 13 May 2010, 23 September 2010, 10 February 2011 and 8 December 2011. He also makes frequent appearances on the Sunday morning programme The Big Questions.

He has been appointed as a new presenter on Al Jazeera's English News Channel and will be presenting the new series of "The Cafe" starting in July 2012.

He was appointed senior editor (politics) at the New Statesman in the late spring of 2009, but left the post in May 2012 to take up a post as political director at The Huffington Post website. Political Correspondent Rafael Behr replaced him at the Statesman, although Hasan will continue to write a weekly column.

Hugo Guerrero Marthineitz (11 August 1924, Lima – 21 August 2010, Buenos Aires) was a Peruvian journalist, commentator and radio host, who spent most of his professional career in Argentina.

Hugo Guerrero Marthineitz was born in Lima, Peru, to Lorenzo Guerrero, the son of mestizo-West Indian parents. Politically active during his secondary school studies, Guerrero was forced to go into hiding for a time in 1941; that year, however, he had found his calling in radio broadcasting, and soon became one of Lima's most recognizable radio voices, hosting a news and commentary program on Radio Programas del Perú.

Guerrero Marthineitz left Lima for Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1955, and later settled in neighboring Montevideo, Uruguay. He returned to Buenos Aires, at the time the World's leading center of Spanish-language broadcasting,^{[citation needed]} in 1964. His successful career in Lima quickly opened doors for him in Argentine radio and he soon hosted El show del minuto ("The Show of the Minute"), centering around literary reviews and talk. The show's success earned him his first television show, Séptima noche ("Seventh Night"). Enjoying high ratings, a 1967 interview with writer Dalmiro Sáenz resulted in its termination when the outspoken philosopher openly praised Fidel Castro. The same dictatorship that had Séptima noche pulled, ordered the suspension of El show del minuto in 1970. Guerrero Marthineitz was, however, soon given a prime-time news and commentary program in Buenos Aires' Radio Belgrano, then among the city's premiere stations. He brought the hitherto declining Radio Belgrano record ratings, even after the advent of Argentina's repressive last dictatorship in 1976. His program combined interviews, debate and commentary, as well as his thorough reviews of the day's music, theatre and film. He received a KONEX Award (Argentine broadcasting's highest honor) for his program in 1981.

Richard Tucker (August 28, 1913 – January 8, 1975) was an American operatic tenor.

Tucker was born Rivn (Rubin) Ticker in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Romanian Jewish parents from Bessarabia. His father, Shmul (Sam) Ticker, and mother Fanya-Tsipa (Fanny) Ticker had already adopted the surname "Tucker" by the time their son entered first grade. His musical aptitude was discovered early, and was nurtured under the tutelage of Samuel Weisser at the Tifereth Israel synagogue in lower Manhattan. As a teenager, Tucker's interests alternated between athletics, at which he excelled during his high-school years, and singing for weddings and bar mitzvahs as a cantorial student. Eventually, he progressed from a part-time cantor at Temple Emanuel in Passaic, New Jersey, to full-time cantorships at Temple Adath Israel in the Bronx and, in June 1943, at the large and prestigious Brooklyn Jewish Center. Until then, Tucker's income derived mainly from his weekly commissions as a salesman for the Reliable Silk Company, in Manhattan's garment district.