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U.S. To Slow Down Relationship With Uruguay Sat, Jul 07 2007 -
Unemployed Businessman Has Time For Headache Tue, Aug 31 2010 -
Haggar Physicists Develop 'Quantum Slacks' Sun, Jan 13 2008 -
Stoned Underage Drunk Driver Calls America A Fascist Police State Fri, Aug 27 2010 -
Health-Food-Store Worker Dies Of Vitamin Lung Thu, Aug 26 2010 -
Bananas Sweep Primates' Choice Awards Again Wed, Aug 25 2010 -
Everything A Goddamn Ordeal For Area Family Tue, Aug 24 2010 -
General Motors Reports Record Sales Of New Disposable Car Mon, Aug 23 2010 -
Company You've Never Heard Of Wants To Reward You For Your Good Credit Fri, Aug 20 2010 -
Starbucks To Begin Sinister 'Phase Two' Of Operation Thu, Aug 19 2010
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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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.
