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Arcane Radio Trivia
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A daily blog focusing on radio history including technology, programming, engineering, the record industry, and law.
- Added on: Sep 12th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Jose Fritz
- Listed in: History Engineering
- Tags: Radio FCC history broadcasting disc jockey shellac
Recent Posts
Broadcast from the Sea Floor
I enjoy how exceedingly arcane some radio "firsts" are. Officially the first submarine broadcast was December 7th 1930. But on October 15th 1919 there was a two-way radio communication between Commander Clark Withers of the US Submarine H-2 and the ...
Storecasting
Storecasting, hyphenated or otherwise is such an ugly word. Storecasting is the "broadcasts" beard only in retail spaces. It's descended from the Beautiful Music format and Muzak and all that bland, soulless, gutless, artless theme music of capital...
The Full Linden
Adolph Frederik Linden (aka prisoner #14851) did it all. He owned a bank, a hotel, a record label and a radio network. But a lot of it was luck. He married well and inherited most of it. He was born in 1889 in Iowa but moved to Seattle as a youth. ...
Radio Vs. Wolves
This is the sort of quackery that keeps me interested in radio history. In North America we spent that last two centuries killing off the wolves. Wolves do not carry off children in the night, they rarely raid chicken coops, and they do not carry ...
Mystery Transcription Disc #56
It was immediately concerning. This transcription disc started at the center, the opposite of modern convention. It's easy to absorb the direction but the physicals were strangely difficult to visualize. The record only ever can spin in one direct...
Captain Midnight Strikes!
Captain Midnight: was he Superhero or Supervillain?Today I write about Captain Midnight. Not the despite the fact that he was not a radio man in the strictest sense of the word. He did transmit his messages, but he did not broadcast them in the AM ...
