This past weekend the National Radio Hall of Fame welcomed the 2008 class of inductees. What? You missed it? Well, lucky for you, plenty of radio types made sure to document the event for the ages. Somehow, my invite must have gotten lost in the mail.

This years inductees included Art Bell, Jess Cain, Howie Carr, Bob Collins, Focus on the Family, Michael “Mickey” Luckhoff”, Dick Wittinghill, and Charlie Tuna.

Mike Stern of Radio & Records re-caps the night:

Bruce DuMont, chairman of the National Radio Hall of Fame, summed the situation up when he announced, “There’s excitement in the air and in the streets as well.” As radio luminaries gathered Saturday night (Nov. 9) to induct the Hall of Fame’s class of 2008, protestors clogged the streets in front of Chicago’s Renaissance hotel, angry about the induction of Dr. James Dobson’s “Focus on the Family” program.

The whole Dobson flap seems a bit overblown. The National Radio Hall of Fame is an independent group that has every right to induct (or not induct) whomever they choose. There are plenty of people who should have been inducted but haven’t been, and there are plenty of people who have been inducted but don’t belong.

The line of the night, though, belongs to Adam Corolla:

Dobson’s induction came close to the end of a night that started with host Adam Carolla from Westwood One welcoming the crowd in Chicago, “and the three dozen radio nerds listening in the basement of their mom’s house.”

How right he is!