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80 Years of Radio in Film
There have been many films about radio. They may focus on a real historical character, pirate radio, corruption, or it may just be fodder for a situation comedy. But there have been many, but with the...
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Marconi Rides Again!
This was a very recent and interesting re-discovery. On April 26, 1901 patent 777 was issued to Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company. This memorably numbered British patent was ambiguously titled...
View ArticleSend Lawyers, Guns and Money
It was the end of the era when Philly was still a music city. It was a different time. Joni Mitchell and Tom Rush hung out there. The studios of WMMR overlooked the Square for many years from the third...
View ArticleVintage EQ
I went looking for a video on retro radio sound and I didn't find what I wanted, but I found a video of Mike Russell explaining how to fabricate an older EQ sound. He doesn't explain much technically...
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Save the Shukhov Tower!
I'll start off by saying that the Shukhov Tower has already been saved. Russian news was slow to cross the pond, and slower to translate so by the time I heard, the story was in the past tense. In...
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Jonesy's Jukebox
In October of 2010 Shepard Fairey was hired to make a logo for the relaunch of Steve Jones radio program on KROQ. The program, Jonsey’s Jukebox, aired on Sundays from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM. The reason...
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The Return Of LORAN!
I've written a bit about LORAN before. LORAN stands for LOng RAnge Navigation. it's not a great acronym, (technically an initialism.) LORAN came in many flavors: AT-LORAN, SS-LORAN, LORAN-A, LORAN-B,...
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IFTT Radio
IFTTT is a web-based service that allows users to create simple conditional statements, they call "recipes." the format is "If This Then That" hence the name. Some users pronounce it as an acronym...
View ArticleSciFi Radio on NPR
SciFi Radio a series broadcast on NPR in 1989 and 1990. Below is their interpretation of the Arthur C. Clarke Story The Wall Of Darkness. The story was first published in 1949... back in the prime...
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RADIO FREE EUROPE
This image is courtesy Thom over at the AFRTS Archive Blog. With the recent tensions between the United States and The Russian Federation of late I though tit might be worth revisiting the existence of...
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185 TB Tape
The headlines read something like "Sony unveils cassette tape that can hold 64,750,000 songs." The image is a bit comical. Solid state memory has eliminated the need for spinning reels or disks of any...
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Pandora, South Dakota
The news stories about the Pandora purchase of 102.7 KXMZ-FM in Rapid City, SD (actually Box Elder) all missed a small detail. Why KXMZ-FM? It's a 50,00 watt station in market # 255 of a possible...
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The Great WVBR War Hoax
The history of WVBR begin in 1935 with the founding of the Cornell Radio Guild. The group didn't incorporate until 1941 but they were active before that. (They are one of the handful of early...
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Buenas Tardes, Muchachitos
Felix B. Caignet was a Cuban writer, journalist, and composer. He was a pioneer of Cuban radio, and for better or worse he is considered the creator of the Latin American TV soap operas. (I'm sure you...
View Article10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!
ARCANE RADIO TRIVIA IS 10 YEARS OLD!. . .FOR REASONS UNKNOWN EVEN TO ME, I HAVE PERSISTED BLOGGING INTO THE VOID FIVE DAYS A WEEK, 52 WEEKS A YEAR, FOR 10 YEARS: A DECENNIAL ACHIEVEMENT. THE...
View ArticleTHE ARCANE RADIO TRIVIA TOP TEN
If you were interested... as part of the 10 year decennial I wanted to high light the 10 most popular posts at Arcane Radio Trivia. First a disclaimer. I do not have data going back to the very...
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Driftnet Radio Buoys
A radio buoy is not a piece of hardware that the average person needs to use. In other words, you probably can't buy one refurbished on Woot. They are a type of battery powered, radio beacon used...
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The Kiwanis Frolic
Today frolicking is something that antelope do in the tall grass on the Animal Planet channel. But in the early part of the last century it also was jargon describing a range of amateur stage shows—...
View ArticleIRS Agents Live on Howard Stern
An unnamed woman from Cape Cod, MA inadvertently, and unknowingly ended up being a caller on the Howard Stern show recently. She was on a call with an IRS agent aka "Jimmy from Long Island." I would...
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