- Informative article. For anyone looking for more on FMs 60s resurgence there is a decent documentary on Boston's WBCN. Trailer at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ljlNTH9UIzUby MontgomeryPy - 1 week ago
- When I was a child, I always wondered why analog television started with channel 2. Where was channel 1? Finally, I know the answer!by Ozarkian - 1 week ago
> To the shock of RCA and other television proponents, the commission reassigned TV Channel 1 – 42 to 50 MHz - creating 40 exclusive channels for FM radio.
- Can't talk about early radio without mentioning the goat gland doctors border blaster. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkleyby Hikikomori - 1 week ago
- Completely unrelated, but I asked Siri to read this article to me on my phone while I made breakfast and I was pleasantly surprised.by gxs - 1 week ago
Not only did it work, but it was accurate and didn’t sound too, too robotic. Will definitely try again.
- It’s fascinating to read about the ebb and flow of technical development. New technologies supplant the prior ones. I haven’t listened to terrestrial radio in many years. I only stream music and content now. Progress continues.by doug_durham - 1 week ago
- I'm at the point in the article where increasing numbers of 40Mhz-50Mhz FM stations are coming online.by WarOnPrivacy - 1 week ago
This feels like building tension, given where FM eventually lands.
- Edwin Armstrong was to radio what Nikola Tesla was to the AC power system, and William Thomson to submarine cables: Someone who so deeply understood what he was doing that everyone else was a amateur by comparison. The man invented the superhet receiver and wideband FM modulation, in other words, (analog) radio as we know it. Pity he got screwed over so badly.by MarkusWandel - 1 week ago
- W71NY ... was connected by land line to the WOR studios, just 4,000 feet away, although the station even experimented with a light beam link between the two locations.by WarOnPrivacy - 1 week ago
'Light beam link' sounds super innovative for ~1942.
- This reminds me of the man who put radio on the internet, Russ Hanneman.by dkga - 1 week ago
- There’s a fantastic (now out of print) biography of Edwin Armstrong that is worth picking up if you stumble across it: Man of High Fidelity by Lawrence Lessingby subpar - 1 week ago