There are 14,000 licensed radio stations in America. about 16% of those are non-commercial. That 16% squeezes in more variety than life itself. I am obsessed. I can admit that now.
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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...
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...
I rarely send my handful of readers elsewhere but today I must.
By accident I came across an article on digital royalties that is fantastic. Just go read it. I used to work in the record biz, and the situation is even worse than he knows.. but what...
John Cage was an avant-garde composer among other things. He "wrote" compositions of pure silence, he played piano with debris placed on top of the strings, and experimented with tape cut-ups. His music career started out in radio but never really...
I don't recall setting out to have a string of "Transcription Tuesdays" but the trend continues this week. This one is actually from a set of three 7-inch cardboard-core Recordisc transcription discs. The sides are mostly labeled and dated. All are...
Never has so much been written about a topic nobody cares about. It's amazing how the internet empowers these people obsessed in their own hobbies (however obscure) to share with others.
