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La Voz del Cuba Independiente y Democratica
Fidel Castro has been dead for about three months now. So I was wondering about the state of the anti-Castro pirate radio stations. There are some in Miami, but those are local to Miami. They usually...
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Leary Vs.Liddy
After being released from prison, G. Gordon Liddy was helped into a new career was a talk radio host by Timothy Leary, a man he had once thrown in jail. There could not be two more different men in all...
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The Cities Service Orchestra
The Cities Service Band of America broadcast it's last show on Monday, January 16, 1956, over sixty years ago. The music was utter schlock, with vocalists like Jesica Dragonette, the Cavaliers Quartet,...
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The First Woman To Own A Radio Station
This is a confirmed well-referenced unchallenged first in the history of radio. That alone is almost a first.Marie Zimmerman received the license for WIAE, Vinton Iowa in 1922. She was only 25 years...
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Marconi in Bolinas, CA
Today it's just called the Marconi Station World Heritage Site. The above image shows the Marconi transmitter during construction in Bolinas, CA. He had begun experimenting with radio in 1894. In 1909...
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Radio Azadliq means Radio Liberty
The word Azadliq (that is Azadlıq in cryllic) in the Azerbaijani language means Freedom or Liberty. There is a popular newspaper in Azerbaijan named Azadliq. In the city of Baku lies the biggest...
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The Marriott and Pai
The Marriott so wants to be able to overcharge you for Internet that they want the right to block your own wifi. After being fined over half a million dollars in 2014, Marriott International and the...
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The Mysterious Mrs. Redgrave
The very first broadcast in the Philippines, probably in all of Asia was a test broadcast in 1922. According to the book Broadcasting in Asia and the Pacific by John A. Lent, an American woman named...
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Behold The RIAA Curve!
The RIAA has a bad reputation. But despite all of the horrible, unethical, hypocritical, soulless, malicious and devious things that RIAA has done... they still deserve credit for the RIAA curve. Prior...
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KPNI, KSMU, KCHU, KNON and KCBI
It's an urban legend told at Class D, carrier current, and other micro-stations at Colleges and Universities across America. I've heard many versions of it... and even some that had some basis in...
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DJ Freedom Fries
In France they're pommes frites. The same taters in Spanish are patatas bravas. Italians call them patate fritte. In Poland they are placki kartoflane. In England they call them chips, and the rest...
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CFRC: Calls From Home
If you hadn't heard, Kingston, Ontario is Canada's Prison Capital. That reputation isn't new. The book God's Plenty, (2011) by William Closson James points out their first prison opened in 1835. The...
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Radio Paris in WWII (Part 1)
After a topic like freedom fries, it feels necessary to defend the French. When it comes to the size of their military they come in behind Greece, but ahead of Spain, Germany and most of their other...
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Radio Paris in WWII (Part 2)
Back in 1936 there were three primary radio stations in France: Tour-Eiffel, Paris-PTT and Radio-Paris. In 1940 they were all either shut down or repeaters for Radio-Paris. On May 8th, 1942 the Radio...
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The Man Called X
First, lets distinguish between the radio serial and the TV series. The original radio series, The Man Called X aired on CBS and NBC from 1944 to 1952. The TV series was adapted from the radio series,...
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Radio Free Zimbabwe
I first heard the three words Radio Free Zimbabwe as the title of an album by the band Okapi Guitars. Ironically they are an Australian, not African Afropop group. Their lead singer Paul Mbenna is from...
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London Underground Circuit Maps
The image above is by Yuri Suzuki, who is also the designer of this radio circuit. Yes, it’s a working radio. Some naysayers have claimed the copper is all shorted together but Suzuki cleverly isolated...
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Little Lord Fauntleroy Bandy
Even the great Jerry Blavat called John Bandy an influence. But before Bandy was in the Philadelphia area, he was a DJ in DC. In the book Divided Soul, by David Ritz, is a single reference to a...
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Pedo Radio
You can't make this stuff up. If you haven't heard the story, I can give you the short version. Paul Lotsof, the owner of 97.7 KAVV (Cave-FM) in Benson, AZ has been broadcasting a PSA for 2 years with...
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Cleaning out the Archives!
I am cleaning out the archives again so I have several eBay auctions going on concurrently. All radio and music related of course. You chart-watchers will be very interested in this one. I am...
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