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by Kevin Strom, WB4AIO
HERE’S A WELL-DONE film from the 1940s showing the basics of AM radio broadcasting — and it also beautifully evokes the Old America of the time, before the current dumbing-down and racial decline really took hold. Make sure and watch it in full screen, as the resolution is quite good.
courtesy N4ZED
by Kevin Strom, WB4AIO
HERE IS ORSON WELLES, ONE of the truly great voices of broadcast radio and film — and a very original wit — performing, in mock-Biblical style, a sendup of American politics circa 1972. Too bad H.L. Mencken did not live to hear this; I think he would have liked it very much.
The Begatting of the President was released as a vinyl album during the run-up to the ’72 elections, and introduced Welles to a whole new generation of young people who were into avant-garde comedy like the Credibility Gap and the Firesign Theatre.
Orson Welles: The Begatting of the President”]
(recording source: archive.org)
by Kevin Strom, WB4AIO
YEARS AGO I joked that the next niche radio format to be attempted would be continuous bird calls. I never imagined that it could actually happen, but it has, and the results are quite pleasant.
Apparently one of the Digital Audio Broadcast channels in Great Britain (yes, they have real over-the-air digital radio in the UK, not the dysfunctional “HD Radio” that the media moguls forced on this country) started broadcasting ambient bird calls and other natural forest sounds about a year ago, and it developed quite a following. (I have no idea if the station’s creator, Quentin Howard, ever heard of my decades-old suggestion or not.)