All Articles Tagged 'radio' (23)

Well it is time to Radio shows, and MetronomiK it´s on the aether web again with their #8 Show.

Here you can listen spanish dieselpunk music as Casino Slut Bar from México, Rosario Smowing from Argentina and Dry Martina from Spain.…

[Nie-Nie-Ni-Nie] Hello, hello, one and all out there in Radioland!  Tune up your Wireless to 360 meters, ladies and gentlemen, because the Cabaret is taking to the air!  WOR radio in beautiful, classy Newark, New Jersey, is broadcasting us live!

And what a show we have, folks.  A special performance by a local crooner who has the Bobbysocksers swooning.  Sure, his skinny skinny form and jughandle…

The Netherlands are a tiny, yet densly populated country. However, there are also some remote places. One is the so-called “Veluwe” area in the East of the country. It was there, in the midst of nothing more than woods, heather and strange in-land sand dunes, close to the town of Apeldoorn, that in 1918 the construction of a massive structure was started, the so-called “Radio Kootwijk”.

An illustration by Dutch…

Most dieselpunkers worth their salt are familiar with at least a few of the following radio companies: RCA, Atwater Kent, Addison, Belmont, Zenith, Philco, FADA etc. It wasn't until recently that I'd heard about the Sonora radio company.

Sonora began as the Sonora Chime Company back in the early 1900s, they made chimes for clocks. Later it became the Sonora…

As it says in the title this is a 1940 Motorola model: 50-X-2, and its one of the most beautiful radios I've ever seen.

The spring loaded handle on the top, and bullet style knobs are all original. The dial gives off a warm, orange, glow when the radio is switched on. If you notice the speaker design it's comprised of eight fins that taper down too the lefthand side. As…

Before we could have wireless sets in the home, we first had to have a broadcasting station to listen to. Most radio historians assert that radio broadcasting began in 1920 with the historic broadcast of KDKA, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.  Few people actually heard the voices and music which were produced because of the lack of wireless receivers at that time.…

I was on Etsy looking for something for a friend and I ran across this 1952 Westinghouse Little Gem or Refrigerator radio.

It was labeled "Little Gem" by Westinghouse, but because it looked like a little refrigerator the "refrigerator" name stuck. Personally I think it looks like a fancy, retro, napkin dispenser.

This is one I got on ebay for about $50, the one on Etsy.com is currently selling for $350. Sure there is about a 700% difference in price however mine…

"The radio will be to the twentieth century what the press was to the nineteenth"

- Josef Goebbels, 1933.

The German Volksempfänger (People's Radio), VE 301 radio was Launched at the Tenth German Radio Fair in August 1933, the model number represented the day on which Hitler had taken power in January that year. Its Bakelite case was designed by Walter Maria Kersting…

Rip Discovers Radio is a play on the Rip Van Winkle story where Rip wakes up on a park bench in Central Park 100 years after a big celebration of Admiral Dewey's victory in Manila Bay. He later meets a beautiful young lady who shows him all the marvels of modern RCA technology.

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“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!”

Yesterday, July 31st, marked the 80th anniversary of The Shadow. It was on that date in 1930 that he made his first appearance as the spooky narrator for the radio program Detective Story Hour. The…

"RECOLLECTIONS AT 30"

NBC (1956)

HOST: Ed Herlihy

ANNOUNCER: Fred Collins

Special series celebrating NBC's 30th year of broadcasting. Exellent programs chronicling the history of radio through NBC's vast library of shows dating back to…

Archive description: Complete Broadcast Day - WJSV 9/21/39 - MP3 format



WJSV Complete Broadcast Day On September 21, 1939, radio station WJSV in Washington, D.C. transcribed an entire day of broadcasting. If you are curious as to what radio was actually like in those days, there is no better way than by listening to these MP3 files.

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