Category: Radio

Because I love The Cinnamon Bear so much, I post this same article every year. This year is no different, except that I’m posting it here instead of at Get Rich Slowly. If you have young children — and even if you don’t — I encourage you to listen to these old radio broadcasts with…

Deadline to sign up for a VENDOR’S TABLE is January 31st! This is THE SHOW for vintage electronics, guitars and luthiers, and antique radio collectors to sell their wares – and for aficionados of those items to find the item of their dreams! Last year we sold out – more than 100 tables in the…

The center of family life, people would turn to it – much as they do with television today – as their primary source for news, entertainment, and sports programming. But with the onset of TV, radio – while far from forgotten – became more of a specialized medium, operating in the 200-channel shadow of its…

Antique tube radios are some of the most coveted vintage electronics any audio enthusiast can acquire. They sound absolutely great, both as for what they are intended – to work as a good old analog radio – but also as an amplifier for external audio sources, including any digital source. Repurposing antique radios as tube…

For those of you who have never seen old radio sets, here is a chance. Go to Bharathi Park near Avinashilingam University on Wednesday where M.A. Abudahir will display more than 160 antique radio sets to mark the World Radio Day on February 13. Despite resource and space constraints, the 42-year-old man, who works in…

Cedar Knolls, NJ (May 25, 2005) – MediaBay, Inc., a leading digital media and publishing company specializing in spoken word and premium audio entertainment, and OverDrive, a leader in download audio books and eBooks for libraries, announced today a distribution agreement that will bring selections of MediaBay’s 50,000-hour library of classic radio programs to libraries…

Radio has been a part of most people’s lives for a long time. We have radios in our cars, sometimes in our homes, although today radio has to compete with television, smart phones, and computers. Next year Sheridan’s KWYO Radio turns 90 years old. Sheridan’s first radio station, KWYO, signed on the air in 1934,…

Dear Vintage Voltage vendors, I hope you are happily gearing up for the Holiday season! Many of you have been asking when you can sign up for the March 26th Vintage Voltage Expo at the Delta in Northglenn, and that day has come! Last year we sold out – more than 100 tables in the…

In the digital age where small is beautiful, the new generation may be oblivious to the existence of huge contraptions with shutters that used to be operated only under the strict supervision of the head of the family, mostly to listen to classical music, news over AIR, light music over Vividh Bharati or running commentary…

The simple one-story building, home to the Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut, provides few clues to the immense, historical collection contained within its brick and mortar walls. The virtual time capsule is filled floor to ceiling with more than a century of technological developments. But hidden from public view is where the real…