On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

The need for monitoring became greater when radio was adopted for military signaling.

Years ago this was true, but with the replacement of wires or runners by radio and radar ( and perhaps television ), these restrictions have disappeared and now again too much is heard.

Finally, Mama did mention to Mrs. Coolidge that she felt sorry for the little dogs, and then Mrs. Coolidge decided to leave the radio on for them while she was gone, even though her husband disapproved of the waste of electricity.

Mr. Brown, well-known, English-born inventor, prior to founding VecTrol was at various times section leader in radio research at Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd. ; ;

The results of present observations of the thermal radio emission of the moon are consistent with the very low thermal conductivity of the surface layer which was derived from the variation in the infrared emission during eclipses ( e.g., Garstung, 1958 ).

The radio emission of a planet was first detected in 1955, when Burke and Franklin ( 1955 ) identified the origin of interference-like radio noise on their records at about 15 meters wave length as emission from Jupiter.

It was a district of small factories and loft buildings and occasional tenements, and he could see the police radio car as he rounded the corner and slammed on the brakes.

But instead of chatter there was a null, like on the radio direction finder.

The description of the car was immediately broadcast throughout Southern Maryland on police radio.

I was seated next to the director of the Seventh Day Adventists' world radio program.

that he must have since he was there like the radio for you to turn on or snap off when you got tired of him, that other guy.

The radio broadcast of the September 8, 1937 Hollywood Bowl George Gershwin Memorial Concert, in which An American in Paris, also conducted by Shilkret, was second on the program, was recorded and was released in 1998 in a two-CD set.

An early pioneer of radio astronomy was Grote Reber, an amateur astronomer who constructed the first purpose built radio telescope in the late 1930s to follow up on the discovery of radio wavelength emissions from space by Karl Jansky.

At times when he was confined to bed, he drew, listened to the radio and collected pictures of movie stars around his bed.

The music to all four films was composed and conducted by Ron Goodwin and is still played on radio today.

Lawry was not informed of the decision privately and heard his fate over the radio.

Beginning with Reginald Fessenden's audio demonstrations in 1906, it was also the original method used for audio radio transmissions, and remains in use today by many forms of communication —" AM " is often used to refer to the mediumwave broadcast band ( see AM radio ).

W7ASU is an amateur radio station that was first organized in 1935.

The novel was not only the presenter of the new, secular, rationalistic, private world of the middle class.

Edward Vincent " Ed " Sullivan ( September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974 ) was an American entertainment writer and television host, best known as the presenter of the TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show.

* Justin Ryan-interior decorator and television presenter, although born in Glasgow, was brought up in Fort William.

Chapman was also to have played a guest role as a television presenter in the Red Dwarf episode " Timeslides ", but died before filming was to have started.

He also appeared in musicals and, in his later years, was a prominent presenter of television shows incorporating hymns and other devotional songs.

Bonewits was a regular presenter at Neopagan conferences and festivals all over the US.

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE ( 30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004 ), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist.

Kabaddi was axed in 1992, but not before its presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy suffered a collapsed lung while participating in the sport.

In 1969-70 he was presenter of The Golden Silents on BBC TV, which attempted authentic showings of silent films, without the commentaries with which they were usually shown on television before then.

Comedian and television presenter Bob Saget, a board member of the SRF, directed the 1996 ABC TV movie For Hope, starring Dana Delany, which depicts a young woman fatally affected by scleroderma ; the film was based on the experiences of Saget's sister Gay.

Examples of so-called kniferisms include a British television newsreader once referring to the police at a crime scene removing a ' hypodeemic nerdle '; a television announcer once saying that " All the world was thrilled by the marriage of the Duck and Doochess of Windsor " and that word regarding an impending presidential veto had come from " a high White Horse souse " ( instead of " a high White House source "); and during a live broadcast in 1931, radio presenter Harry von Zell accidentally mispronouncing US President Herbert Hoover's name, " Hoobert Heever.

A group of four suited men — a presenter ( Georges Corse, Minister of Information ) and three contributors to the system's development — was shown standing in a studio.

Strachan had solo releases since 1976 and finally left the band in 1978 and was also a radio and television presenter.

Lipscomb, along with several other Nobel laureates, was a regular presenter at the annual Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony, last doing so on September 30, 2010.

The event caused some controversy, as the record label's embargo date was broken, although Williams himself later backed the presenter for doing so.

Barry Took ( 19 June 1928 – 31 March 2002 ) was an English comedian, writer and television presenter.

* Comedian and presenter Griff Rhys Jones appeared as himself in July 2004, when he was drafted into Lynda's campaign to restore the Cat and Fiddle pub.

He is a qualified medical doctor, and was co-writer ( with Bill Oddie ) of several episodes of the medical comedy Doctor in the House on ITV ( appearing in the episode " Doctor on the Box " as a television presenter ).

Atkinson-Wood was a regular presenter of Central Television's controversial O. T. T.

In 1972 he starred in the children's educational programme Sam on Boffs ' Island and was later a presenter on Play Away.

During the awards ceremony, the film was eventually announced by presenter Will Smith as a submission from the Palestinian Territories.

The British popular-science programme Brainiac: Science Abuse demonstrated dilatancy dramatically by filling a swimming pool with this mixture and having presenter Jon Tickle walk across it ; this was called " walking on custard.

For a brief period during 2002, Kennett was a radio presenter for Melbourne station 3AK, continuing an interest in mass communication which was also a feature of his premiership.