Clear Playlist
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Friendly Dragon Added To U.S. Arsenal Wed, May 04 2011 -
Matthew Lillard To Play Matthew Lillard In Upcoming Film Tue, May 03 2011 -
LaSalle, Illinois Awaits Fabled Drug Shipment Mon, May 02 2011 -
God Late For Local Wedding Fri, Apr 29 2011 -
FBI: 6 Dead Not Really 'Mass Murder' Thu, Apr 28 2011 -
Conjoined Twin Hogging Kidney Wed, Apr 27 2011 -
Near-Death Experience Followed By Right-On-The-Money-Death Experience Tue, Apr 26 2011 -
Area Man Hopes To Accidentally See Roommate's Girlfriend Naked Mon, Apr 25 2011 -
Pirate Written Up For Dress-Code Violation Fri, Apr 22 2011 -
Nihilist Quilting Project A Depressing Success Thu, Apr 21 2011
Featured Editor's Playlists
Add special collections of Onion Radio News to your playlist that have been hand-selected by the editors.
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Your Cousin Says Prison Food 'Not So Bad' -
The U.S. Justice System Will Be Replaced By A New Prison Lottery -
Smoking Ban Collapses Fragile Prison Economy -
Prison Warden Appears On Leno With Some Of His Favorite Prisoners -
Your Cousin Says Prison Food Not So Bad -
Prison Tattoo Artist Says It's A Swastika Or Nothing
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Veteran Who Stormed Beach At Normandy Still Getting Laid Because Of It -
NORAD Headquarters Crawling With Missile Weevils -
Officer Passed Over For General Still Asked To Contribute Battle Plans -
U.S. Troops Fortified With Hot, Nutritious Breakfast -
Google Steps In To Help U.S. With Google Navy -
Coalition: Vast Majority Of Iraqis Still Alive -
Marine Never Knew What Freedom Was Until He Left The Marines
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Pirate Written Up For Dress-Code Violation -
Calvin Klein To Build Runway Control Tower After Tragic Five-Model Pileup -
New Denim Jacket Bolsters Consumer Self-Confidence -
Small Fluffy Dog To Head House Of Versace -
Visible Panty Line Discussed Like It's Cancer -
Miss Universe Spends Awkward Elevator Ride With Miss Alternate Universe -
Man Forced To Witness Own $10 Haircut
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Phil's Party Reminds Area Man Why He Doesn't Go To Phil's Parties -
Man Born To Party Dies Partying -
Area Man Got His Tattoos While Serving In College -
Nation's Deans Meet To Discuss Problem Of Sexy College Girls Going Wild -
Fraternity Brother Forced To Find Asshole Friends In Real World -
Everyone On Campus Afraid Of That One Bar -
No One Stabbed Or Anything At Off-Campus Party
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The Onion Radio News has been the most highly regarded broadcast news source in the world since visionary Onion publisher T.Herman Zweibel made the bold move in 1922 to shut down the popular Onion Telegraph News and focus on the then embryonic medium of radio. From day one Zweibel intended to employ this new technology for the public good, and for the first two years he devoted much of his airtime to denouncing silent film actress Louise Brooks.
Overnight, Zweibel's vitriolic attacks gained sufficient listenership to attract wealthy sponsors like Campbell's Liquid Beef and Spotto potato detergent. The financial success of the Onion Radio News led Zweibel to hire professional "pronouncers," as they were called then, who were charged with the important task of reading items from the printed version of The Onion to fill time between Zweibel's marathon anti-flapper rants.
In 1947, a polyp the size of a Concord grape on Zweibel's vocal cords forced him to stop his nightly rants, allowing the Onion Radio News to finally become one of the first 24-hour news outlets.
Today the Onion Radio News, anchored by Doyle Redland, continues to inspire and inform millions of listeners around the world and has become the living embodiment of the power of the spoken news word.
A 14-year-old Doyle Redland began working at the Onion Radio News Office as an office page in 1963. After leaving to receive a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and a short lived job at CBS Evening news, he returned in 1974 to the Onion Radio News to become an anchor, where he has remained. Redland is fluent in two languages, enjoys cooking, and is an avid cross-country skier. He shares a home in Racine, Wisconsin with two black labs, Freedom and Liberty.
