Before YouTube, you had to watch your educational videos on film. In the 1970s, if you studied radio, you might have seen the video from Universal Education and Visual Arts, titled Understanding ...
On this date 65 years ago, the FCC established what became known as citizens band — or CB radio. We reflect on how it rose to immense popularity and the ways the radios are still in use today. On this ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Bob Sirott joins John Landecker to take a ...
The FCC-required proof-of-performance was an annual ritual for broadcast engineers from the earliest days of radio up to deregulation in the 1980s. In the early 1970s, many engineers might have ...
As a loyal Radio World reader you are entitled to something more than the mere rantings of a third-tier ex-disc jockey. Thus I’m going to share with you the coolest Christmas event we ever ran during ...
The locally produced documentary “Naptown Rock Radio Wars,” released two years ago, has come out in book version. It recounts the city’s 1950-1970s radio antics, which included furious competition ...
Radio stations, government entities, and even fans have tried to prevent some songs through the years from getting released or aired to the masses. The 1970s were one particular era when this happened ...
Harry West, whose corny jokes and wisecracks as a morning disc jockey on WARM-AM helped “The Mighty 590” dominate local radio ratings in the 1960s and 1970s, died quietly Friday. West died in his ...
In post-World War II Poland, jazz served as an act of defiance against the state, a resistance to the cultural restraints imposed on society. With its improvised nature and swinging rhythms, it stood ...