"Hear and Now"

[oldmanradio]

NAB film from 1958:

http://www.archive.org/details/HearandN1958

 

[ropertex]

Radio...a public servant. How "quaint" (just like the Geneva Convention)

Radio can reach an unlimited number of listeners in a station's coverage area, LIVE in real time, with no internet overload, no cable or satellite or internet fees...a working AM (analog) radio can be built for 50 cents in parts which doesn't even require batteries or electricity. And most of the spectrum is right wing screamers (many advocating overthrow of our government), preachers, jukeboxes, and Spanish/Hindi/Vietnamese cacophony..whatever brings in the biggest money.

Back then, buying a station and then selling it within three years left you open to presumed criminal charges of STATION TRAFFICKING.

What a waste of a unique resource.

But thanks for the memories...

 

[dfaulkner]

Fun to watch... Radio in the days of the 20% rule, the Fairness doctrine, the local origin requirement, legal ID at exactly the top of every hour & likely so many other things that I'm not thinking of at the moment. Radio has changed so much....

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Radio in the days of...legal ID at exactly the top of every hour...

If you had to hit a network, then likely yes, but the window was within
two minutes 58-:02) of the TOH.

And also required: legally IDing on the half-hour 28-:32).

 

[dfaulkner]

Radio in the days of...legal ID at exactly the top of every hour...

If you had to hit a network, then likely yes, but the window was within
two minutes 58-:02) of the TOH.

And also required: legally IDing on the half-hour 28-:32).

Thanks for the clarification. I thought it was "exact" It seemed that way listening. Most stations either ended the hour with a back timed instrumental, doing legal ID & going to news at the top of the hour or they went to Texas State Network or their own local news at 55 & ID'd & went back to music at the top of the hour.