Archive for the ‘Staff Blogs’ Category

Mar. 09 2016

Clara Rockmore’s 105th birthday – Google Doodle

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Today’s interactive Google Doodle celebrates the 105th birthday of musician Clara Rockmore. from the Google Doodle blog: “Clara Rockmore made music from thin air. Trained from a young age as a violinist, Rockmore ultimately gave up the violin due to physical strain. This led her to discover the theremin, a gesture-controlled instrument named after its […]

Feb. 28 2016

Mystery solved!

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On Reed’s Sunday show, he played the Waldteufel’s Estudiantina Waltz and mentioned that it was associated with a beer from ‘before his time’ but couldn’t recall which beer. A helpful listener called in and identified the beer as Rheingold Beer, and even sang us the jingle! See if you can’t stop yourself from singing along…   […]

Feb. 07 2016

2016 Winter Drive Recap

By Diana Ross | Posted in Staff Blogs, WBJC News | 1 Comment

What a FANTASTIC drive! Thanks to each one of you who called in a pledge, we had an AMAZINGLY SUCCESSFUL drive! Goal for the total drive: $88,500 total made: $116,415 Total number of pledges: 936 New members: 262 75 online pledges made up $7,710 Over the next several weeks, the membership department will be hard […]

Jan. 25 2016

Live from the WBJC studios #Snowzilla2016

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Reed, Mark and I are hunkered down and bringing you the best of classical music all blizzard long! How are you holding up? 4pm update: What cars? Sunday morning:

Jan. 13 2016

STREAMING IS BACK UP

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UPDATE: Streaming is fixed!   It’s not you, it’s us. WBJC streaming is down. We’re working on the issue and hope to be back up shortly!

Dec. 18 2015

Radio Clocks and Clock Radios

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Radio Clocks and Clock Radios Here we see a Philco Model A radio-clock circa 1931. This device acts as a 24 hour timer, and was used to turn a radio on and off at pre- set times. There are knobs on the left and right sides to set on and off times, along with an […]

Dec. 17 2015

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates Beethoven

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Today’s Google Doodle celebrates Beethoven’s 245th year with a cute interactive music game. Help Beethoven arrange his masterpieces in today’s #GoogleDoodle https://g.co/doodle/xh7puy

Aug. 15 2015

Host Schedule – Baltimore Summer Antiques Show

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Once again, the WBJC on-air talent will be in attendance at the Baltimore Summer Antiques Show. Come out and say hello. Thursday August 20th 3pm-8pm Jonathan Palevsky Friday August 21st Noon-2pm Dyana Neal 5pm-7pm Kati Harrison Saturday August 22nd 2pm-4pm Mark Malinowski 4pm-6pm Judith Krummeck Sunday August 23rd 11am-1pm Dyana Neal 1pm-5pm Reed Hessler Look […]

Aug. 15 2015

Bob’s Radio Gallery #8

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This Zenith 6D030’s cabinetry was designed by Charles and Ray Eames, most known for their mid-century furniture designs, such as the Eames Chair.  Their designs utilized a process for making compound bends in plywood, which resulted in stylish products at a time when the industry was still suffering from wartime material shortages.  This Zenith radio […]

Jun. 19 2015

Got Signal/reception issues?

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We’ve gotten some calls about reduced signal around the area, and Engineer Bob said it’s due to Tropospheric Ducting.  “Huh??” I replied. from uk.sci.weather: “The speed of a radio wave in the atmosphere is determined by the dielectric property of the air. This property depends on the pressure, tempertaure and humidity of the air. In general […]

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