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.

* Down Among the Z Men ( 1952 ), played Eccles in a black-and-white secret agent comedy with all the Goons, including early member Michael Bentine and original announcer Andrew Timothy.

Breaking into television as the original announcer on Steve Allen's Tonight, Gene Rayburn began a long association with game-show producers Mark Goodson and Bill Todman in 1953.

The original writer, producer, and announcer of the spoken portion of the broadcast was Edward ( Ted ) Kimball, who would stand at the top of a tall ladder and announce the name of each performance piece into the microphone suspended from the Tabernacle ceiling.

The show, hosted by NBC announcer Ben Grauer, who had also hosted many of the original Toscanini broadcasts, featured interviews with members of the conductor's family, as well as musicians of the NBC Symphony, David Sarnoff, and noted classical musicians who had worked with the conductor, such as Giovanni Martinelli.

The original announcer was Don Murray-Henderson, who was with the programme until his death in 1971.

The show's original announcer was Jack Lescoulie, who was also a spokesman for the sponsor, Buick.

* Real Families – The generic music used as the titular fictional series ' theme song was replaced, which also required the announcer's lines to be re-dubbed ( unfortunately, as the original announcer was the legendary Johnny Olson, best known for his game show work ).

The A's owner then ordered a white line to be painted on the field at the original " Pennant Porch " distance, and told the public address announcer to announce " That would have been a home run in Yankee Stadium " whenever a fly ball was hit past that line but short of the fence.

Roddy succeeded original announcer Johnny Olson on Price and held the role from 1985 until his death in 2003.

Gene Wood was the primary announcer on both the original and 1980s Card Sharks versions.

In the 2007 live audio production of the Angie Award-winning screenplay Albatross ( original screenplay written by Lance Rucker and Timothy Perrin ) at the International Mystery Writers Festival, he played seven characters requiring four different accents: KGB agent Stefan Linnik, East German Communist Party apparatchik Kurt Mueller ; a West Berlin gasthaus owner ; an armed forces radio announcer ; the Senate minority whip ; a Secret Service guard ; and Gerhard Derstman, the East German Cultural Attache / Stasi member.

He was the original voice of the popular March of Time program and an announcer for shows such as George Burns and Gracie Allen.

The original host of this show was former Georgia Championship Wrestling announcer Ed Capral.

The original version premiered on Nickelodeon on November 2, 1987 with Wesley Eure as host and John Harvey as the announcer.

Bob Haymes ( billed as " Bob Stanton ") was the original announcer, and he was joined by Ray Forrest in 1948.

Jay Stewart was the announcer for the first year and was replaced by Charlie Tuna in the summer of 1985, who announced for the remainder of the original version and the entirety of the 1993 revival.

* An original Episode of Takeshi's Castle viewable with forced English subtitles, and also with an English announcer ( Episode # 93 )

Among his most popular job was as announcer on the original version of Family Feud.

After the 1985 death of the original announcer Johnny Olson on the Bob Barker version of The Price Is Right, Wood was one of four interim announcers on that show, until Rod Roddy was chosen as Olson's successor.

The Genesis version was released on a 40 Megabit cartridge, which allowed the inclusions of voice clips of the game's announcer stating the names of the countries before each match, although the audio quality is not of the same level as the original arcade game.

Bern Bennett was the original announcer.

Only Joachim and the organist were credited in the script, which had the announcer give the credit “ with original music by Dick Ballou ”.

The original announcer was DJ Dan Ingram.