Posts Tagged ‘radio’
Engineer Bob’s Radio Gallery 2
GE “Atomic 440” Radio From the “Atomic” design style of the 1950’s. I saw one of these radios in an old photo of WBJC’s transmitter site (actual picture!), so I had to have one! This GE “Atomic 440” radio has seven tubes and a selenium rectifier. There is a phono input on the back. I … Read More »
Engineer Bob’s Radio Gallery
This Emerson radio dates back to the late 1940′s. The cabinet was designed by the studios of Raymond Loewy, famed industrial designer. Lowey was responsible for the design of the Shell Oil logo, Studebaker automobiles, Coca-cola products and the US postal service eagle logo. It was quite unusual for a company like Emerson to build … Read More »
Holidays are what (and when) you make them
Happy Thanksgiving! If you’ve had WBJC on since 10 this morning (and of course, I hope you have) you might have noticed that I’m working. If a holiday falls on a weekday, I’ll be here unless I ask for vacation time in advance, and you know what? That doesn’t bother me one bit. Many people … Read More »
What a weekend!
As you are probably aware, WBJC had its Winter On-Air Fund Drive last weekend. Our listeners were as generous as ever & we actually exceeded our projected financial goal for the drive, so we’re a tired, yet happy bunch this morning. Big thanks to everyone who called in a pledge – you keep the music … Read More »
What a nice way to end a workday!
A few weeks ago, I got a phone call from a man who needed me to help him ID a classical piece. That’s all in a day’s work around here, but there were a couple of unusual things about this request. First, the caller had a snippet of a recording to play for me, which … Read More »
Pop socks
If you think that Mark has sounded blue or Dyana has sounded green the past couple of days, it’s not because they are, respectively, sad or sick, it’s that all the WBJC announcers now have individualized multicolored pop socks. (For the uninitiated, a pop sock is the cover that goes over a microphone to minimize … Read More »
