Blogs about: Radio History
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Texting Is Mightier Than The Sword
The remarkable events occurring in Iran continue to demonstrate the power of social networks. Twitter has rescheduled a major maintenance session set for tonight in order to allow the flow of informat… more →
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Noisy Neighbours
wrote 1 day ago: There is already a buzz about Audioculture, the “noisy library” of New Zealand music, which will lau … more →
Live to Air
wrote 1 week ago: As the Second World War began, in New Zealand there was almost a national campaign to come up with a … more →
Six Key Moments in Radio History
wrote 2 months ago: As part of one of the modules I am currently studying at my first year of university, Radio and Popu … more →
Shortwave radio jamming in Soviet Latvia
wrote 2 months ago: The American made SCR-399 transmitter was used by Soviets to jam US and Western broadcasts Radio is … more →
The Beginning of Commercial Radio
wrote 3 months ago: The start of commercial radio in the USA. Taken from the film Empire of the Air. video h/t to radpro … more →
December in Radio History
wrote 4 months ago: December 14, 1877 Ernst Werner von Siemens patents the first loudspeaker December 24, 1898 First … more →
November in Radio History
wrote 5 months ago: November 18, 1883 Railroads introduce four standard time zones in the U.S. November 15, 1896 … more →
"Numbers constitute the only universal language"*...
wrote 5 months ago: … or they could. xkcd With 10-digit strings we can distinguish roughly 10,000,000,000 … more →
What's in a name?...
wrote 6 months ago: What is the “7″ in 7UP? We’ll never know for sure. The soft drink’s c … more →
1920-Commercial Radio’s First Broadcast-Almanac of Absurdities for 11.2.2012
wrote 6 months ago: Click here to Hear the Birth of Commercial Radio! On this day…in 1920…Radio, more or less as we know … more →
The Invention of the Radio
wrote 7 months ago: This is a paper that I wrote as part of a four person team with my classmates for a Directed Studies … more →
First Radio Transmission From Antarctica
wrote 7 months ago: The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was an Australasian scientific team that set out to explore pa … more →
The First Regenerative Circuit
wrote 8 months ago: Edwin Howard Armstrong was born in New York City in December 1890. Illness as a child left him withd … more →
The Summer In Toledo That Changed The World
wrote 8 months ago: Maybe it’s my undying love for radio broadcasting that inspires my interest in its history and … more →
History Buzz September 2, 2012: Elliot N. Sivowitch, radio, television historian, 80
wrote 8 months ago: HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Elliot N. Sivowitch, radio, televi … more →
History of Radio - Key Figures
wrote 1 year ago: In a generation which has become dependent on electronic interpersonal communications, amateur radio … more →
The history of the Latvian Radio
wrote 1 year ago: The main building of the Latvian Radio Radio is the first mass media in the world. For many decades … more →
Radio Radio! Radio Actor Phillips H. Lord
wrote 1 year ago: Only in his twenties, Phillips Lord played a character many decades older. Seth and Ma Parker, undat … more →
The History of Hospital Radio
wrote 1 year ago: Hospital radio has a history which is almost as long as broadcasting itself. In order to chart where … more →
