Category: Radio

The nice radios that can’t read a smartphone playlist are no longer popular. What if we mixed state-of-the-art Bluetooth speakers, often expensive or charmless, with a disused device? The first reason to have fun turning an old transistor radio into a Bluetooth speaker is that it is aesthetically pleasing: as soon as they appeared on…

“This is a Johnson radio from the U.K. It is over 80 years old. This is a spool tape recorder that I am told is still used by All India Radio and Radio Ceylon. That one is the oldest radio we have: the original GEC radio, which used to run with a dry battery,” says…

As I sit and write this I have to conclude I have too many hobbies and too much stuff, I really must stop it. Tomorrow, maybe. Anyway, this is another thing of mine and has been since I was a very young lad. My Dad had this old valve radio that he had connected to…

Dear Vintage Voltage vendors: I hope you are happily gearing up for the Holiday season! Many of you have been asking when you can sign up for the March 26th Vintage Voltage Expo at the Delta in Northglenn, and THAT DAY HAS COME! Sign up to sell HERE! Last year we sold out – more…

Because I love The Cinnamon Bear so much, I post this same article every year. This year is no different, except that I’m posting it here instead of at Get Rich Slowly. If you have young children — and even if you don’t — I encourage you to listen to these old radio broadcasts with…

Deadline to sign up for a VENDOR’S TABLE is January 31st! This is THE SHOW for vintage electronics, guitars and luthiers, and antique radio collectors to sell their wares – and for aficionados of those items to find the item of their dreams! Last year we sold out – more than 100 tables in the…

The center of family life, people would turn to it – much as they do with television today – as their primary source for news, entertainment, and sports programming. But with the onset of TV, radio – while far from forgotten – became more of a specialized medium, operating in the 200-channel shadow of its…

Antique tube radios are some of the most coveted vintage electronics any audio enthusiast can acquire. They sound absolutely great, both as for what they are intended – to work as a good old analog radio – but also as an amplifier for external audio sources, including any digital source. Repurposing antique radios as tube…

For those of you who have never seen old radio sets, here is a chance. Go to Bharathi Park near Avinashilingam University on Wednesday where M.A. Abudahir will display more than 160 antique radio sets to mark the World Radio Day on February 13. Despite resource and space constraints, the 42-year-old man, who works in…

Cedar Knolls, NJ (May 25, 2005) – MediaBay, Inc., a leading digital media and publishing company specializing in spoken word and premium audio entertainment, and OverDrive, a leader in download audio books and eBooks for libraries, announced today a distribution agreement that will bring selections of MediaBay’s 50,000-hour library of classic radio programs to libraries…