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Fernsehturm Stuttgart Radiosender
German words agglomerate. Hence the existence of the book Schottenfreude. "Fernsehturm" is the German word for television tower. "Fernsehen" means television, as in the noun, the electronic device. To...
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The Lottery
Shirley Jackson only wrote 6 novels in her 30 year career as a writer. She manged in that time to write the archetypal Haunted House story, The Haunting of Hill House (1959.) It was praised by Steven...
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Crazy Dr. Jerry Carroll
The adjective "Crazy" can mean mentally ill or mentally deranged, especially if manifested in a wild or aggressive way. But it can also just mean extremely enthusiastic. Both of these apply in the...
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Amazon is listening to your radio
As the IOT (internet of things) expands it's corporate mission to ruin everything, we expected certain changes: needless expense, personal discomfort, technical difficulties and perhaps some comedy....
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Ethel Waters on WGV-AM
Ethel Waters was an American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist; active between 1919 and 1959. She died on September 1, 1977, aged 80 from cancer. Three of her recordings were inducted into the Grammy...
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Radio QWERTY
Christopher Sholes introduced the Qwerty keyboard on one of his early typewriters, which was patented in 1873. This device and it's patents were sold to the Remington company. No matter what you...
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The State of SBE Chapter 18
This speaks volumes as to the state of radio engineering as a career. As of December 15th 2016 SBE Chapter 18 is inactive. The Society of Broadcast Engineers was founded in 1964 to serve broadcast...
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News and Reviews 2016
We are now in year 12, and if you hadn't noticed... things have changed. This blog began in April of 2005. From the middle of that month until early March of this year I blogged 5 days a week. Then...
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BBC Christmas Ghost Stories
It seems like an odd mix: the Christmas holiday and ghost stories. In America the holiday is awash in cloying animated cartoons and schmaltzy family-friendly movies. Our classic films are somehow even...
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KCHUNG
I discovered KCHUNG radio in of (all places), the Los Angeles Review of Books newsletter. They plugged an art showing of Keith Rocka Knittel. Apparently he holds an MFA from CalArts, and also hosts the...
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The Sacred 5 on WLBJ
1410 WLBJ-AM was the first commercial radio station in Bowling Green, Kentucky, signing-on in June, 1940. In its early days, the station's studios were located in downtown Bowling Green and would later...
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The Zombie Satillite
This has the makings of a fine Sci-fi novel. Between 1965 and 1976 the USAF sponsored the design, construction and launch of a series of satellites built by Lincoln Laboratory at MIT. The Lincoln...
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F**k Donald Trump
On Friday January 20th at about 2:00 PM EST an unknown party launched the radio hack. It was timed to happen during the Presidential inauguration. They took over the audio programming of an unknown...
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Reggae Radio in the UK
The book Cut 'N' Mix by Dick Hebdige was first published in 1987, making it out of date now, but very contemporary for early land-based pirate broadcaster in the UK. Today the maritime pirate...
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INTERVIEW: Wilfredo Seda
Wilfredo Seda is a genuinely inspirational figure. His career has literally made history in bringing Latin radio and TV programming into a historically white and conservative region of the country. He...
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Radio Liberia
Radio in Liberia is quite different than in the US. According to Building Markets [LINK] "40% of Liberia’s population of about 5 million people are illiterate. In a national survey conducted in 2008,...
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Headphones and Polygamy
The website Earlyradiohistory.us make a reference to the Baldwin Radio company. As usual the source is well-cited. It comes from two good sources: A 1911 memorandum from a radio division under the...
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All the Opry's in the Land
We all know the The Grand Ole Opry. It's been on 650 WSM-AM for 92 years. It was originally called WLS and WMC in Memphis, TN. Hay was key to the renaming of the barn dance into the Opry."The WSM Barn...
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Campus Voice Encounter
Campus Voice Encounter was a pre-packaged college radio show produced by Whittle Communications Campus Voice Network, and distributed by Thirsty Ear records on LP in the 1980s. An advertising industry...
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