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What's a radio?
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kenglish
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A "radio" is one of those all-purpose words. It has something vaguely to do with music, but no one quite remembers why.
It's sort of like, "Run Xerox this" or, "Can you send me a Xerox?", or "Who knows how to fix the Xerox?"
It's sort of like, "Run Xerox this" or, "Can you send me a Xerox?", or "Who knows how to fix the Xerox?"
My dad's generation (aka The Greatest) often says "Frigidaire" for "refrigerator." The oldest ones will even call the device an "icebox."
Easier than buying a new tube radio!
TV, video and film has to be the same though as all purpose words for something to do with moving pictures but no one quite remembers why.
And "filming" is still a frequent catch-all verb for video recording of any kind, even though film is hardly ever used in the process.
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Pat3
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Just like when the media say something was "caught on tape" when very few cameras actually use tape anymore. Some people still say they are going to tape their favorite show even though they record it on a DVR machine which has not tape. Football players are always talking about watching the game "film"
Just like we use the term "static" to describe any kind of interference or noise affecting a radio signal.
I work at a certain home shopping network and when they are going to show a rerun (mostly happens overnight) they will communicate to the call center that it's a "taped show". No tape anywhere but Scotch.
Scotch was a big videotape manufacturer, going back to reel-to-reel, in the mid 1960s.
Reel-to-reel audiotape too, under the Tartan brand.
I remember way back when ... when you were listening to an AM station, you could slightly off-tune the receiver and dramatically improve the high frequency response of the station.
Except for the occasional static, this receiver tuning method made the AM stations sound almost as good as FM stations.
Except for the occasional static, this receiver tuning method made the AM stations sound almost as good as FM stations.
NFL Films is still the name of the company but I doubt they still use film.
What was known as "slope detection", IIRC....No NRSC 9 kHz. "mask".....and --- sad to say, more on-staff engineers who could (and DID!) take time to make sure the audio chain was clean and peak modulation was kept
below 125%.....TRF (tuned radio frequency) front ends on the better AM receivers and tuners (think McKay-Dymek AM-5).....and provisions for an EXTERNAL (usually long-wire) antenna!!!
It really blows me away when I look at where AM radio is today....what WAS a listener mainstay has now become a virtual "dinosaur"......!!
Really?
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=portable...ix=Portable+Radio,aps,511&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_14
https://www.walmart.com/search/?query=Portable Radio
In many ways, it's easier than ever.
Go down to your local Best Buy and ask where the Transistor radios are. What do you think the response will be.
They'll tell you: China and Hong Kong. And yes you can mail order them. But they're not actually in stores.
Not everyone has a local Best Buy. Standalone big boxes are closed in many places. Malls are closed in many places, dying nationwide. Access to Walmart and Amazon is a couple of clicks away for more than 75 percent of all Americans. Transistor radios are now a specialty item; bricks-and-mortar retail outlets need the shelf space for stuff that moves more than a couple of units a week, if that.
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