[NJARC] What is a "Radio?"

[n3ibx]

Dave - If interested, I just acquired roughly 1 hour of an "Aveena" 
sponsored program  of popular songs of the day by Hal Kemp and His Orchestra 
from 1934, made from a transcription disc. The quality is superb. Also, some 
Philco radio spots from 1931 featuring the "Boswell Sisters". If interested 
let me know. There aren't many transcription disc programs available from 
that era since they were just coming into popularity, and the quality wasn't 
all that good in some instances. They're fun to listen to and the music is 
great.

I also have a few very early programs I coud upload to you via the internet.

Best Regards,
                    Joe Cro N3IBX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David R Sica" <davesica at juno.com>
To: <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [NJARC] What is a "Radio?"


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> Alex,
> I have a good friend, who has attended some of our NJARC events , whose
> background is as a DJ in the radio broadcasting industry. Now I'll admit
> once again that SAYING something is altogether different than actually
> DOING it, so I am hopeful yet skeptical about any grand plans. You raise
> a lot of good questions, but my friend feels strongly that with a
> combination of prerecorded and remote live hookups from people such as
> himself who have a fondness for the programming side of the same earlier
> eras in radio that our people do for the hardware side, that this might
> very well be a viable proposition. So there's an opinion from the other
> side of the sandbox!
>
> --Dave
>
>
> On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:22:49 -0500 amagoun <amagoun at davidsarnoff.org>
> writes:
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>> Since the NJARC seems to represent largely radio preservationists
>> focusing on "hardware," to pursue this idea you will need the radio
>> preservationists of "software," ie broadcast content from the 30s
>> to
>> the... well, it's hard to know where contemporary stations draw the
>> line.  But the content of the NJARC station ought to be more than
>> playing the same top 40 you can hear on a variety of commercial AM,
>> satellite, and internet stations.  It ought to recreate the delivery
>> of
>> those songs, the tube or transistor systems of transmission and
>> reception, and the commercial content that framed them back in the
>> day.
>> To pull this off, I'm thinking we should discuss this with people
>> who
>> run the NJ Radio Museum in Dover, www.njrm.org/, who seem to be or
>> know
>> a number of ex-DJs, and people like Dave Zwengler of North
>> Brunswick,
>> who's an effective mimic of men from the Golden Age of Radio.
>>
>> Whether they could incorporate the variety of ads as well as patter
>> that
>> listeners would remember from the past is a good question, as is
>> obtaining rights, which probably extend beyond BMI and ASCAP.  But
>> that
>> would be the point of a non-profit station dedicated to preservation
>> of
>> a dead form.  Could a group assemble enough live and prerecorded or
>> streamed material from DJs, those records incorporating the songs
>> and
>> ads of the 1960s, and the explosion of CDs containing the Golden Age
>> to
>> fit the on-air requirements of the FCC?  Do it be done while
>> filtering,
>> for the 30s through the 50s, the less-fondly remembered references?
>> I'm
>> thinking not only of Amos 'n' Andy, but the variety of slurs
>> directed at
>> Asians and Hispanics, as well as females, that make finding a
>> script
>> from that era worth reviving for radio theatre so difficult.  Lest
>> one
>> of our many white males make a comment about political correctness,
>> this
>> is little different from the reason no one wears blackface anymore;
>> and
>> you try explaining the historical nature of such programming to the
>> members of those groups who tune in.
>>
>> So before going further, the discussion might do some calculations
>> about
>> broadcast time required at different power and regulation levels,
>> and
>> how much of that could be done with canned as opposed to live
>> material,
>> week in, week out.
>>
>> Best,
>> Alex
>>
>> ps. Incidentally, visitors to the blog below will find an
>> illustrated
>> review of sorts of the War of the Worlds broadcast last October.
>> --
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