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ILOVERADIO said:
Thanks for doing the research. I remember first reading Broadcasting in the high school library and being fascinated with the radio and tv business at age 14.
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I got my first Broadcasting subscription when I was about 11 or 12, which would be 1957 or '58. Back then, it had a larger format, and I recall when they changed to the more standard format of other weekly trade magazines. I also bought Sponsor for a while as well as Television Radio Age, but as a kid found Broadcasting more interesting.

I loved reading the want ads, thinking that some day I could get one of those jobs at a real radio station.
 
davideduardo said:
I got my first Broadcasting subscription when I was about 11 or 12, which would be 1957 or '58. Back then, it had a larger format, and I recall when they changed to the more standard format of other weekly trade magazines. I also bought Sponsor for a while as well as Television Radio Age, but as a kid found Broadcasting more interesting.

I loved reading the want ads, thinking that some day I could get one of those jobs at a real radio station.
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That must have taken a big amount of your allowance.:)
 
michael hagerty said:
Right around the same time, Motorola started offering an add-on FM tuner. It hung under the dash, the way the later 4-track and 8-track cartridge players would.

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When I got my first car, a used VW Beetle to get me to college, I had one of these FM converters. It actually sounded pretty good and the reception for even distant stations wasn't bad! You set the AM to 1400 kHz and the FM converter would retransmit at that frequency. I think if your town had a 1400 station, you could adjust it to another frequency.

In those days, VW only offered FM on its more expensive cars. And since I was on the college FM station, I wanted to be able to hear it while driving. The one drawback: the FM stations couldn't be heard in stereo since everything was retransmitted on the car's AM mono radio.
 
xkxrx said:
That must have taken a big amount of your allowance.:)
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I had a print shop in the basement, using a legitimate Chandler and Price press and big paper cutter. I did printing for my school, for kids who wanted "business cards" and specialized in selling QSL cards to hams and radio stations. What I did no spend was invested and, six or seven years later, paid for my first radio station!

My Saturday pass-time was to take the buss to American Type Foundry downtown and buy a new font or two in at least 3 or 4 point sizes.
 
davideduardo said:
My Saturday pass-time was to take the buss to American Type Foundry downtown and buy a new font or two in at least 3 or 4 point sizes.
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Love the reference to point sizes. Brings back memories of doing layouts from my high school and college newspaper days and trying to make everything fit.
 


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