Radio Hall of Fame Announces 2026 Host & Inductees: Full List
UPDATE (Aug.
17): Bobby Bones is set to host the 2026 Radio Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which will be held at the Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park, in Chicago on Thursday (Oct.
8).
Bones, a 2017 Radio Hall of Fame inductee, is the host of the top-rated country morning show The Bobby Bones Show on iHeartMedia and Bobby Bones Presents: The Bobbycast on Netflix.
A native of Mountain Pine, Arkansas, Bones is now based in Nashville.
Tickets are on sale now at: www.radiohalloffame.com.
UPDATE (Aug.
3): The Radio Hall of Fame announced today the selection of nine 2026 Legends inductees, an award that is presented posthumously.
This year’s Legends inductees are on-air personality, game show host, and television producer Wink Martindale ; on-air personality and record company executive Vivian Carter ; network radio and syndication executive Gary Krantz ; radio station owner and executive D.E.
“Duke” Wright ; and on-air personalities Lin Brehmer , Dale Dorman , B.
Mitchell Reed , Pierre Robert and Polito Vega.
Martindale is one of the few DJs to land a top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 .
His spoken word record “Deck of Cards” reached No.
7 in November 1959.
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