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.

`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!

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

A Havana radio broadcast identified the Americans as Howard Anderson and August Jack McNair.

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.

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 ).

* 1920 – The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.

* 1922 – The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.

In a subsequent radio broadcast, Churchill referred to the new drug as " This admirable M & B.

On November 9, 2008, a radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, starring Robert Lonsdale as Paul Bäumer and Shannon Graney as Katczinsky.

In many countries, over-the-air broadcast television of analog audio and analog video signals is being discontinued, to allow the re-use of the television broadcast radio spectrum for other services such as datacasting and subchannels.

A practical television system needs to take luminance, chrominance ( in a color system ), synchronization ( horizontal and vertical ), and audio signals, and broadcast them over a radio transmission.

* 1972 – First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest running British radio shows in history.

He also hosted similar vehicles on the radio — and was a familiar celebrity guest on various other broadcast programs, including the long-running NBC radio series, Monitor.

As of 2001, there were zero AM radio broadcast stations, four FM stations, and one shortwave one.

Fred Hoyle is credited with coining the term Big Bang during a 1949 radio broadcast.

The BBC radio commentary on the final day of the innings ( 6 June 1994 ), by Dave Roberts, was being broadcast around the world live via the BBC World Service network, and in the UK on BBC Radios 1, 2 & 4 as well as the majority of BBC Local radio stations.

The duo performed on a local radio station KDAV Sunday broadcast that made them a top local act.

Among others, his suggestion during a radio broadcast that a Labour government would require " some form of a gestapo " to implement their socialist policies was widely seen as being in bad taste, and backfired.

He performs live DJ sets, occasionally comperes and curates the events, and has broadcast the radio show live from the festival location.

As the anniversary of Confederation, Dominion Day, and later Canada Day, was the date set for a number of important events, such as the first national radio network hookup by the Canadian National Railway ( 1927 ), the inauguration of the CBC's cross-country television broadcast ( 1958 ), the flooding of the Saint Lawrence Seaway ( 1958 ), the first colour television transmission in Canada ( 1966 ), the inauguration of the Order of Canada ( 1967 ), and the establishment of " O Canada " as the country's national anthem ( 1980 ).

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.

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.

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.

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

During the training exercises the astronauts did not wear spacesuits, but carried radio equipment to converse with each other and a scientist-astronaut, practicing procedures they would use on the lunar surface.

Audio and radio signals carried on electrical wires are also examples of alternating current.

The program, a hodgepodge of satirical news commentary, music, and sketch comedy, is carried on many public radio stations throughout the United States.

international traffic with other former Soviet republics and China carried by landline and microwave radio relay ; with other countries by satellite and by the Trans-Asia-Europe ( TAE ) fiber-optic cable ; satellite earth stations-2 Intelsat, KazSat

new telephone exchanges provide a large capacity for new subscribers ; trunk traffic is carried by microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, open wire and fiber-optic cable ; a cellular telephone system operates throughout Kuwait, and the country lacks pay telephones.

On May 16, 1925, the first live radio broadcast of the Kentucky Derby was originated by WHAS and was also carried by WGN in Chicago.

It carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus ' atmosphere with radio waves, scan its brightness in ultraviolet light, and sample the solar particles and magnetic field fluctuations above the planet.

A low-frequency message signal ( top ) may be carried by an AM or FM radio wave.

As the audience grew too old for advertisers, the radio stations that carried these formats saw a sharp loss of ratings and revenue.

Intercity traffic is carried by coaxial cable, microwave radio relay, a domestic communications satellite system with 19 earth stations, and a coastal submarine cable ; mobile cellular facilities and the Internet are available

Engineers at the company's research lab carried out a systematic comparison of various power sources and determined that the almost forgotten Stirling engine would be most suitable, citing its quiet operation ( both audibly and in terms of radio interference ) and ability to run on a variety of heat sources ( common lamp oil – " cheap and available everywhere " – was favoured ).

Modern police forces make extensive use of radio communications equipment, carried both on the person and installed in vehicles, to co-ordinate their work, share information, and get help quickly.

* International: Direct microwave radio relay link with Martinique and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ; tropospheric scatter to Barbados ; international calls beyond these countries are carried by Intelsat from Martinique.

The national radio broadcast of Super Bowl XIII was carried by the CBS Radio Network, with Jack Buck and Hank Stram calling the action.

Traditionally, politically driven talk radio from the United States does not air on Canadian stations, with a few scattered exceptions ( e. g. the now-defunct CFBN, which carried political programming such as the Glenn Beck Program and Dennis Miller, and the also-discontinued talk format of CHAM, which carried Miller ).

It was also the first presidential election to be covered on the radio, thanks to both 8ZZ ( later KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ) and 8MK ( later WWJ ) in Detroit, which carried the election returns, as did the educational and amateur radio station 1XE ( later WGI ) at Medford Hillside MA.

By 1951, the four networks stretched from coast to coast, carried on the new microwave radio relay network of AT & T Long Lines.

However radio signals may be carried by electromagnetic radiation ; the intensity of the radiation ( amplitude modulation ) or the frequency of the radiation ( frequency modulation ) is oscillated and then the individual oscillations are varied ( modulated ) to produce the signal.

Mariner 5 ( Mariner Venus 1967 ) was a spacecraft of the Mariner program that carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus ' atmosphere by radio occultation, measure the hydrogen Lyman-alpha ( hard ultraviolet ) spectrum, and sample the solar particles and magnetic field fluctuations above the planet.

Power might also be transmitted by changing electromagnetic fields or by radio waves ; microwave energy may be carried efficiently over short distances by a waveguide.

* international: inadequate fixed main lines ; adequate cellular connections ; international traffic carried by fiber optic cable and, when necessary, by microwave radio relay from the Tirana exchange to Italy and Greece ( 2003 )

Signal multiplexing of satellite TV and radio channels is typically carried out in a central signal playout and uplink centre, such as SES Platform Services in Germany, which provides playout, digital archiving, encryption, and satellite uplinks, as well as multiplexing, for hundreds of digital TV and radio channels.