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Harmon’s Histories: Waxing nostalgic about the early days of radio broadcasting
Harmon’s Histories: Waxing nostalgic about the early days of radio broadcasting
Harmon’s Histories: Waxing nostalgic about the early days of radio broadcasting
In December 1923, Waldemar Kaempffert, a “noted technical expert,” described the transition from the “the first timid experiments” with radio signals to the birth of the “broadcasting business.” That business created a whole new language and job descriptions. There were terms like “Broadcast Studio,” “Power Room” and “Master Clock,” and job titles like “Director of Broadcasting,” “Power Man” and “Announcer.”
Harmon’s Histories: Happy New Year! Keep that window cracked open at night!
Harmon’s Histories: Happy New Year! Keep that window cracked open at night!
Harmon’s Histories: Happy New Year! Keep that window cracked open at night!
Happy New Year! As we all hope 2024 will be a better year than 2023, we look back at similar hopes 100 years ago. The editor of The Madisonian newspaper (Virginia City) at the end of 1923 wrote: “The old year fades away and the God of time ushers in the infant of 1924. The years come, and they go, and are seen no more, but they leave a heritage that even time itself can not efface.”
Harmon’s Histories: PINK in 2024? Or Carpenters, Elvin Bishop, Buck Owens in 1973?
Harmon’s Histories: PINK in 2024? Or Carpenters, Elvin Bishop, Buck Owens in 1973?
Harmon’s Histories: PINK in 2024? Or Carpenters, Elvin Bishop, Buck Owens in 1973?
I see that P!NK will perform in Missoula at Washington-Grizzly Stadium in August, with Sheryl Crow among the warm-up acts. Ticket prices, according to various websites, range between $70 and $370. That prompted me to look back through old issues of the UM student newspaper, The Kaimin, for the various acts and ticket prices in Missoula 50 years ago: 1973. Wow! What a year!

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