In recent days there have been extensive lamentations over the absence of original drama on television, but not for years have many regretted the passing of new plays on radio.

A 1945 radio series of at least 13 original half-hour episodes ( none of which apparently adapt any Christie stories ) transferred Poirot from London to New York and starred character actor Harold Huber, perhaps better known for his appearances as a police officer in various Charlie Chan films.

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 ).

On the 2007 deluxe edition release, it is revealed that parts of this tape were used for the 1976 Griffith Park Planetarium launch of the original album, the 1987 remix, and various radio spots, all of which were included as bonus material.

The first major model for communication was introduced by by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver for Bell Laboratories in 1949 The original model was designed to mirror the functioning of radio and telephone technologies.

In summary, an AM signal consists of alternating positive and negative peaks of a radio carrier wave, whose amplitude or envelope is proportional to the original audio signal.

The original stories were adapted for the radio by Russell Hughes.

The production team of Tony Moran and Albert Cabrera, known as the Latin Rascals, created original music for radio station WKTU that included freestyle classics like 1984's " Arabian Nights ", and later hip-hop oriented projects such as the Cover Girls ' " Show Me ".

BBC Radio and Broadway investors subsequently rejected Rohmer's proposals for an original Fu Manchu radio serial and stage show during the 1940s.

Only one of this first series ( and very few of the following three in which he did not appear ) has survived, the rest of the original disc recordings having apparently been destroyed or discarded as no longer usable, so there is almost no record of his work as a radio " Goon ".

The original formulaic radio format was Top 40 music.

Later, as those songs became popular, the original artists ' recordings received radio play as well.

The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Lever Brothers, as sponsors and producers.

Douglas Adams writes in the notes accompanying the published volume of original radio scripts that he wanted Slartibartfast's name to sound very rude, but still actually be broadcastable.

In electronics, a superheterodyne receiver ( sometimes shortened to superhet ) uses frequency mixing or heterodyning to convert a received signal to a fixed intermediate frequency, which can be more conveniently processed than the original radio carrier frequency.

The demodulator uses the IF signal rather than the original radio frequency to recreate a copy of the original information ( such as audio ).

The undesired signals are removed by the IF bandpass filter, leaving only the desired offset IF signal at f < small >< sub > IF </ sub ></ small > which contains the original modulation ( transmitted information ) as the received radio signal had at f < small >< sub > d </ sub ></ small >.

In the United States and Canada, satellite radio services offer uncensored " free-wheeling " original programming, such as The Howard Stern Show and The Opie & Anthony Show, formerly featured on terrestrial, government-censored radio.

In 1907, De Forest filed for a patent for such a three-electrode version of his original Audion tube for use as an electronic amplifier in radio communications.

** Pinto Colvig, American vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor, and circus performer ( original voice of Goofy ) ( b. 1892 )

* September 11 – Pinto Colvig, American vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor, and circus performer ( original voice of Goofy ) ( d. 1967 )

Seats now include monitors for the electronic libretto system provided by radio marconi, an Italian company, allowing audiences to follow opera libretti in English and Italian in addition to the original language.

From 1984 to 1992, the BBC adapted all of the original Miss Marple novels as a series titled Miss Marple.

It superseded Integer BASIC and was the BASIC in ROM in all Apple II series computers after the original Apple II model.

In the original series finale, when McVicker thinks that Beavis and Butt-Head are dead, he immediately stops shaking and becomes calmer and more cheerful.

According to the Official Buffy Watcher's Guide, Whedon wrote the pilot to the TV series as a sequel to his original script, which is why the show makes references to events not occurred in the film.

Another significant difference is that the character of Prince Edmund presented in the pilot is much closer to the intelligent, conniving Blackadder of the later series than the snivelling, weak buffoon of the original.

Bixby directed one episode of the series, " Bring Me the Head of the Hulk " in 1980 ( original airdate: January 9, 1981 ).

A Taiwanese television series based on the original novel was produced.

Before the Cheers pilot, " Give Me a Ring Sometime ", was finalized and then aired in 1982, the series originally consisted of four employees of Cheers, the bar, in the original script.

The Lancer / Ace editions ( 1966 – 1977 ), under the direction of de Camp and Lin Carter, were the first comprehensive paperbacks, compiling the material from the Gnome Press series together in chronological order with all the remaining original Howard material, including that left unpublished in his lifetime and fragments and outlines.

Editions after the Lancer / Ace series have been of either the original Howard stories or Conan material by others, but not both.

Though the rest of the original Barlow family were killed off, Ken has remained the constant link throughout the entire series of Coronation Street.

A new, completely re-recorded version of the theme tune replaced the original when the series started broadcasting in HD on 31 May 2010.

" Her portraits Fanny Travis Cochran, Dorothea and Francesca, and Ernesta and her Little Brother, are fine examples of her skill in painting children ; Ernesta with Nurse, one of a series of essays in luminous white, was a highly original composition, seemingly without precedent.

The series ' art direction centers on American music and counterculture, especially the beat and jazz movements of the 1940s – 1960s and the early rock and roll era of the 1950s – 1970s, which the original soundtrack by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts defines.

The game has been expanded into a series since its original release, which currently includes Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Counter-Strike: Source, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

The character is brought back as a ghola in the Herbert / Anderson sequels which conclude the original series, Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ).

In Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ), the continuation of the original series by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, the Baron is resurrected as a ghola ( 5, 029 years after the death of Alia ) by the Lost Tleilaxu Uxtal, acting on orders from the Face Dancer Khrone.

He is featured in 1965's Dune, the original novel in the science fiction series, as well as the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy ( 1999 – 2001 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

The latter was translated into English as Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee by Dutch sinologist Robert Van Gulik, who then used the style and characters to write an original Judge Dee series.

Throughout the 1980s and ' 90s, Young promised fans a follow-up to the original Decade collection, provisionally titled Decade II ; eventually, this idea was scrapped in favor of a much more comprehensive anthology to be titled Archives, spanning his entire career and ranging in size from a box set to an entire series of audio and / or video releases.

In total, 1, 344 stories were created in the original series, which are published by Shogakukan under the manga brand, extending to forty-five volumes.

The series started to lose mainstream appeal as the technology of the Doom game engine was surpassed in the mid-1990s, although fans have continued making WADs, speedruns, and modifications to the original.

Although the majority of WADs contain one or several custom levels mostly in the style of the original game, others implement new monsters and other resources, and heavily alter the gameplay ; several popular movies, television series, other video games and other brands from popular culture have been turned into Doom WADs by fans ( without authorization ), including Aliens, Star Wars, The X-Files, The Simpsons, South Park, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Red Faction, The Thing, Pokémon and Batman.

Data General followed up on the success of the original Nova with a series of faster designs.