‘Are you listening? The late VE Howard was known to have posed this question on the radio program “International Gospel Hour”, an evangelistic program associated with the Churches of Christ dating back to 1934. For 88 years, the question has been posed to listeners like Billy Boyd. Boyd, a memberRead More →
If you’re driving in the greater Ravenswood area and tune your radio to 87.9 FM, you might enter some sort of radio twilight zone. On tap? Old-school cop thriller radio dramas, with detective melodramatic music, damsels in distress and classic radio sound effects – footsteps, slamming doors, the gunshot. ThereRead More →
Amateur radio operators can be quite selective about their equipment. Some are old-school purists who would never think of touching a rig containing transistors, and others are perfectly happy with the little software-defined radio (SDR) hooked up to their PC. The vast majority of us, however, fall somewhere in betweenRead More →
It took 25 years for Amin Nawabi, the subject of Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s hit documentary for Sundance, “Flee,†to tell his friend about his poignant story. Nawabi fled Afghanistan as a child in the 1980s, eventually ending up in Denmark where he and Rasmussen became classmates in high school, butRead More →
Our Hackaday team is spread all over the world, but stays in easy contact thanks to the magic of the internet. A number of us have amateur radio call signs, so could, with a little effort and expense, do the same on the air. A hundred years ago, this wouldRead More →
Samaniya Bhat, 20, is the youngest female radio jockey of North Kashmir. She recently completed her BA in Journalism and Mass Communication, after which she got a job at Radio Chinar, 90.4 FM located in Sopore, Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir. While some praise her success, Islamists have found her aRead More →
VOWR is off the air after a thunder and lightning storm Friday night. (Francesca Swann / CBC) One of Newfoundland and Labrador’s oldest radio stations was cut off after a severe thunderstorm hit the metropolitan area on Friday evening. VOWR station manager Doreen Whalen said the station’s transmitter was oneRead More →
Kyun Utthe Dil Chhod Aaye has grown in popularity since its broadcast. The period drama is loved by audiences for its unique plot and beautiful storytelling. The actors perfectly interpreted their roles in the series. The show is a period drama based on three love stories during the time ofRead More →
A little over two years ago, I decided to expand our Cashbox brand and launch a radio station. Most of my colleagues thought it was a crazy idea and that there was no money in it. But we weren’t doing it for the money – we were doing it forRead More →
Something happened on the way to the future: the past got in the way. I’ve been spending time reading online forums and other vintage electronics pages lately. This includes sites that involve sharing the passion and getting help, like I did with an old Zenith TV console that my wifeRead More →
Something happened on the way to the future: the past got in the way. I’ve been spending time reading online forums and other vintage electronics pages lately. This includes sites that involve sharing the passion and getting help, like I did with an old Zenith TV console that my wifeRead More →
Eric Webster was standing in a Fleet Farm when he saw a flexible sheet of metal. He grabbed it and after starting to shake it, his face lit up with joy. Then a confused-looking employee stepped in and said, “Sir, can I help you? “ Webster’s enthusiastic response: “Doesn’t thatRead More →
Eva in studio at The Cat 107.9 FM A Young Cat 107.9 FM presenter received a Blue Peter Music badge due to her own radio show. Nine-year-old Eva, who presents the Children Takeover program every Saturday at noon, was elated when she received the badge specially designed by Ed Sheeran.Read More →
The modern amateur radio hut can take many forms. Some are sanctuaries, the “anchor boat†radios of yesteryear, named for their considerable weight. Others are simply a small, unpretentious software-defined radio (SDR) hooked up to a laptop. Nowadays, there are a lot of cabins somewhere in the middle. It’s notRead More →
The generation after their fifties is probably familiar with the expression “ea chekku” (air traffic control), which refers to the recording of music from an FM radio program. With your finger ready to press the record button on your cassette player, you wait for the exact moment when the musicRead More →
LOTTIE Ryan will digitize her late father Gerry’s old recordings so she can listen to it in his new car. he DJ 2FM transformed his 15-year-old Toyota Yaris this week into an all-new hybrid version. However, modern technology means that the old recording she had of Gerry on the RyanRead More →
All over the world, Tesla cars are viewed as gadgets as much as electric vehicles. You name it and there’s a good chance Tesla EVs will have it – from games for entertainment to cameras for security and maybe even video conferencing in the future. But does he have aRead More →
In this digital age, few people care about the good old radio. But there is that time of year when nostalgia for this communication device is rekindled for many in Calcutta and West Bengal. Mahalaya, which marks the start of the festival season, is also the occasion for the restitutionRead More →
Cliff Kayhart has had a love affair with radio since he was a young boy. He built his first radio in 1920 at the age of 9. And in 1937 he received his amateur radio card. Today, at 102 years old, Kayhart remains active on the airwaves of radio amateurs.Read More →
For NASA personnel, it is VK5ZAI. To his neighbors in Pinks Beach, a small coastal town in South Australia, his name is Tony. During his 30-year association with the US Space Agency, Tony Hutchison has been called upon to help in times of crisis, moderate calls between astronauts and theirRead More →
Last week marked the 50th anniversary of quintessential music festivals, Woodstock, which saw half a million people descend on a New York State dairy farm to see legendary performances from The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Santana. An official anniversary event – Woodstock 50 – was canceled, butRead More →
Usually the playground dirt covered the boys from head to toe on the way back in our Radio Flyer wagon. This trip generally included a detour to the Prairieton bakery. Their grimy faces were looking in the window to each choose a donut. Outside the storefront, one was dipping coinsRead More →
Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson chose to forgo “the usual contrition” after audio surfaced of him making offensive remarks on a radio call years ago. In calls to the shock radio show Bubba the Love Sponge, which ran between 2006 and 2011 and was highlighted on Sunday by Media MattersRead More →
Something that we thought was disappearing is back. It’s the humble radio. The man behind the revival, Paolo Novelli, and his company RadioNovelli, have spared no effort to ensure that the new high-tech radio captures the imaginations of the digital generation and those who grew up listening to the radio.Read More →
The 53-year-old building began its activities as a tourism and information center in 1965 and became Radio Seychelles in July of the same year. (Salifa Karapetyan) Photo license (Seychelles News Agency) – Seychelles’ first radio station was being demolished on Saturday, making way for a new, modern national broadcaster toRead More →
To share Tweeter To share To share To share E-mail When the RNA programming gurus decided to bring Jase hawkins in Australia and put it in the KIIS 101.1 breakfast in Melbourne with PJ, they might have had the idea that Jase might catch up one day with his formerRead More →
A website for the former radio talk show of Mississippi Republican Senate hopeful Chris McDaniel highlighted inflammatory comments about women and minorities, telling liberal women to “shave … your face” and denigrating Detroit residents as “bling bling” looters. The remarks were on a Squarespace website since deleted for “conservative articlesRead More →
Veteran Dunedin radio broadcaster Lloyd Martin found himself momentarily at a loss for words yesterday when a rare honor for him was unexpectedly announced during a live broadcast on Otago Access Radio. Nothing unsettles Mr Martin (94), but he suddenly found himself overwhelmed when an honorary life member of theRead More →
What was supposed to be a standard six-and-a-half-hour mission outside the ISS aimed at replacing an old electronics box, turned into a new spacewalk record, with a time in the space totaling eight hours and 13 minutes. It is the longest Russian spacewalk and the fifth longest in the historyRead More →
It’s a return to the future for a Vernon radio station. Listeners to 107.5 FM – formerly KISS-FM – were introduced to a new / old name Thursday at noon. Vernon’s newest station is 107.5 Beach Radio, broadcasting the biggest hits of the 80s and 90s. “107.5 is already theRead More →
8 August 2017, 15:51 | Updated: 10 Aug 2017, 13:18 Celebrate the U2 guitarist’s birthday by looking back on this unforgettable failure. Today it’s 56th birthday of David Howell Evans. The guitarist, better known as The Edge, definitely had some epic and memorable moments during his life as guitarist forRead More →
After suffering a devastating trauma at the age of seven, Lilly Lyons defied the odds to become a teenage sexual violence activist. When Lilly first saw a counselor about her abuse, she was asked to play in the sand. She remembers feeling frustrated that after waiting so long to seeRead More →
Rappio offers advertisers and brands a targeted advertising platform to reach mobile consumers through audio ads. The traditional mode of marketing has undergone a radical change over the past decade, with digital advertising proving to be the biggest game changer. However, radio advertising, which has been around for a century,Read More →
Fans of old-fashioned radio dramas will have the opportunity to watch them come to life on Sunday at the James J. Hill Center in downtown St. Paul. The Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society will offer a live reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story, “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”.Read More →
In the age of smartphones and the Internet, radio still dominates the airwaves in Nashik, captivating old and young with its mix of programming. Since its inception in 1994, AIR’s popularity has not diminished a bit. Today, around 50 lakhs from Nashik District and surrounding areas in northern Maharashtra logRead More →
20 January 2017, 13:30 | Updated: January 20, 2017, 18:04 Celebrate 20 years since the release of the group’s epic single Beetlebum with these incredible stock footage. Today, 20 years have passed since blur released Beetlebum as the first single from their self-titled fifth album. While we reflect on theRead More →
Washington (AFP) – She never went to college and a neurological disorder almost silenced her, but Diane Rehm has persevered to find her voice as the famous host of one of the oldest shows of radio from America. Almost four decades after stumbling into the radio business, Rehm hangs upRead More →
HERMITAGE, Pa. (WKBN) – Radio stations have been broadcasting from an old brick building in Hermitage for 78 years, but this race is about to end as WPIC moves on to something newer. On Wednesday evening, some former employees who once worked in the WPIC building came back to theirRead More →
Trump said he “could” have slept with Princess Diana if he had had the chance. Through MEGHAN KENEALLY 25 February 2016, 18:34 • 6 minutes to read Share on FacebookShare on twitterEmail this article ?? – Donald Trump has been criticized during his presidential campaign for his comments on women,Read More →
TEd Williams, the former homeless man with the golden voice whose story has captivated thousands of people is back on the radio. The Columbus Dispatch reports the 58-year-old has returned to WVKO-AM (1580), the radio station where the Ohio native began his career in the 1980s before drug and addictionRead More →
Think of them like podcasts from decades ago: Horror masters like Stephen King have pointed out that the rich imaginations of radio shows deliver terror more appropriate than the page or the screen. In the pre-television days (imagine a bit), purely audio suspense was provided not only by writers, actors,Read More →
Q. Can you explain why radio stations are playing new songs every hour of the day until you can’t stand them anymore? Then it seems like you rarely, if ever, hear them. A. Believe me, I felt your pain. But if you’re of my generation, you know this sort ofRead More →
“You can’t put new wine in old bottles,†the saying goes. But you would if you’re a hacker stuck with a radio built in 2005 that looked like it was put together using 1975 technology. [Marcus Jenkins] did just that, removing the innards from his old radio and converting itRead More →
When all other modern means of connectivity were destroyed in the recent floods, it was the good old radio that helped keep people in touch. Hakeem Rouf Qadir tells how century-old technology kept modern man’s hopes afloat Photo: Bilal Bahadur During the worst floods of the century, when road connectivity,Read More →
I inherited my grandfather’s old radio console because no one else wanted it. It hadn’t worked for decades. It was a bit dented, a bit big and heavy. Think of the NFL player. Well, that’s overkill. But he would have take a soccer player to lift the thing up andRead More →
NEW YORK, December 13, 2013 / PRNewswire / – More than one thousand eight hundred nominations have been made, in what is believed to be the largest survey of its kind. The nominations covered everything from old-fashioned police radio shows to classic comedy, drama, big band shows and sci-fi. (Photo:Read More →
Hello, time traveler!This article has been published 06/28/2013 (3016 days ago), the information it contains may therefore no longer be up to date. Opinion It’s Thursday morning, three days after Larry Updike found out his contract wasn’t renewed as host of CBC Radio’s local late-afternoon show, and he’s sitting nextRead More →