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Created by Gustave Eiffel, the construction of the Eiffel Tower lasted just over two years and 250 workers worked there.
The artists of the moment considered it monstrous and the possibility of demolishing it on different occasions was raised.
With the advent of world wars on the twentieth century, the authorities found its usefulness as a broadcasting antenna and with it they captured messages that helped the allies decisively.
Nowadays, the Eiffel Tower is the most visited monument in the world with more than 7 million annual visitors.
A visit to Ugchelen FM DAB+ Radio Broadcast Tower near Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. The tower has a height of 142 meter.
A Broadcast Partners Chief Engineer working on the FM antennas at the Gerbrandy Broadcast Tower (Cellnex Gerbrandytoren) in IJsselstein the Netherlands. He is located at an altitude of 354 meter (approx. 387 yards).
The photo is taken by hand from above.
The Gerbrandytoren is the highest building/structure in the Netherlands.
Impression of the Gerbrandy tower: flic.kr/p/H45bjs
A Broadcast Partners Chief Engineer working on the FM antennas at the Gerbrandy Broadcast Tower (Cellnex Gerbrandytoren) in IJsselstein the Netherlands. He is located at an altitude of 354 meter (approx. 387 yards).
The Gerbrandytoren is the highest building/structure in the Netherlands.
Impression of the Gerbrandy tower: flic.kr/p/H45bjs
I was a guest on the fabulous RADIO CAROLINE NORTH broadcast, LIVE on 1368 kHz and 648 kHz from their historic radio-ship Ross Revenge on the River Blackwater in the UK. With special thanks to DJ, broadcaster and engineer Johnny Lewis.
I was a guest on the fabulous RADIO CAROLINE NORTH broadcast, LIVE on 1368 kHz and 648 kHz from their historic radio-ship Ross Revenge on the River Blackwater in the UK. With special thanks to DJ, broadcaster and engineer Johnny Lewis.
With 372 meter, the Gerbrandytoren broadcast tower is the highest building/structure in the Netherlands.
Looking down from the top, it looks like this: flic.kr/p/2kQEYto.
The almost 370 meter (1214 feet) high Christmas tree in the Gerbrandy Broadcast Tower is a Christmas tree-shaped set of lights that are attached to the large radio transmission tower in IJsselstein, the Netherlands and is, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the largest Christmas tree in the world.
The almost 370 meter (1214 feet) high Christmas tree in the Gerbrandy Broadcast Tower is a Christmas tree-shaped set of lights that are attached to the large radio transmission tower in IJsselstein, the Netherlands and is, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the largest Christmas tree in the world.
A Broadcast Partners Chief Engineer working on the FM antennas at the Gerbrandy Broadcast Tower (Cellnex Gerbrandytoren) in IJsselstein the Netherlands. He is located at an altitude of 354 meter (approx. 387 yards).
The Gerbrandytoren is the highest building/structure in the Netherlands.
Impression of the Gerbrandy tower: flic.kr/p/H45bjs
I was a guest on the fabulous RADIO CAROLINE NORTH broadcast, LIVE on 1368 kHz and 648 kHz from their historic radio-ship Ross Revenge on the River Blackwater in the UK. With special thanks to DJ, broadcaster and engineer Johnny Lewis.
Radio Latin-Amerika 105.8 MHz and DAB+ is the largest station for minorities in Norway and one of the oldest among Oslo's local media. We have been on the air uninterruptedly since 1987, with programming that includes music, news and comments, sports, culture, spaces dedicated to children and young people, interviews, live broadcasts of important events such as elections, seminars and conferences, concerts, football matches and much, much more.
Internet stream: radiolatinamerika.no/radioplayer
Radio Latin-Amerika 105.8 MHz y DAB+ es la emisora más grande con que cuentan las minorías en Noruega y una de las más antiguas entre los medios locales de Oslo. Estamos en el aire en forma ininterrumpida desde 1987, con una programación que abarca música, noticias y comentarios, deporte, cultura, espacios dedicados a los niños y jóvenes, entrevistas, envíos en directo de eventos importantes como elecciones, seminarios y conferencias, conciertos, partidos de fútbol y mucho, mucho más.
Internet stream: radiolatinamerika.no/radioplayer
Radio Latin-Amerika 105,8 MHz og DAB+ er den største stasjonen for minoriteter i Norge og en av de eldste blant Oslos lokalmedier. Vi har vært på lufta uavbrutt siden 1987, med programmering som inkluderer musikk, nyheter og kommentarer, sport, kultur, rom dedikert til barn og unge, intervjuer, direktesendinger av viktige begivenheter som valg, seminarer og konferanser, konserter, fotball kamper og mye, mye mer.
Internet stream: radiolatinamerika.no/radioplayer
Blue hour at 30 Rock in Rockefeller Center in New York. The open plaza facing 5th Ave. allows this angle of the Comcast (formerly RCA) building.
There's nothing quite like doing a first show at a radio station! You're actually simultaneously learning how to use all the hardware AND focusing on keeping up a seamless program with no on-air errors.
The show simulated the format, pacing and energy of vintage Top-40 radio, specifically the Bill Drake formatted stations like KHJ in Los Angeles and CKLW in Windsor, Ontario. I used 1960s and 70s digitally remastered jingles, promos and contests from my collection and copied them to tape carts for airplay. The show also featured real vintage commercials for products which no longer existed.
As a weekend show, I had complete control over the contents. The show was a mix of well known tunes along with copious amounts of B-sides, as well as many album tracks which should have become hits in their time, but never did.
At 10,000 watts, we were getting calls and requests from most of Connecticut, Long Island and even parts of upstate New York.
Often long-distance listeners on the internet would also call in to make requests and comment on the show.
I had a key to the transmitter room and would crank the Aphex Compellor audio compressor settings WAY up to give our broadcast output that old-time sound of loudness and punchiness.
Every show was recorded on VHS-HiFi tapes and I've since remastered them to CDs for my aircheck collection at home. In fact, I'm listening to one right now as I write this!
Hawaii KGU-760 transmitter site at Ahui Ave. at Kewalo Basin. Also KHNR-690 and KHCM-880, KZOO-1210 tower site.
Yours truly deep into the radio groove inside the third floor of an anonymous nondescript brick building in Bridgeport, Connecticut. September 2005.
Doing this oldies show at WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, CT on Saturday evenings was probably the most fun thing I've ever done!
Ever since falling in love with the fast pace, tight formats and on-air personalities of classic Top-40 radio in my childhood years, I finally got my own shot it! (and it lasted for almost 19 years!).
As a weekend show, I had complete control over the contents. The show was a mix of well known tunes along with copious amounts of B-sides, as well as many album tracks which should have become hits in their time, but never did. Numerous vintage jingles and commercials from my collection copied to broadcast tape carts added to the overall recreation of the way radio used to sound.
At 10,000 watts, we were getting calls and requests from most of Connecticut, Long Island and even parts of Rhode Island and upstate New York.
A friend and fellow radio DJ and aircheck collector, Bob Gilmore, took this shot during my intro talk-up of the Jimi Hendrix tune "Are You Experienced?".
WSBC-1240 radio transmitter on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. This is the survivor of the longtime AM radio share time agreement between WEDC, WCRW and WSBC. This was the WEDC tower for many years.
He also had an oldies show, but the approach was completely different. While my show was fast paced, highly energetic and reminiscent of vintage Top 40 and its "forward thrust" formatics, his show was laid back and educational. After each set of tunes, he would discuss the the back-stories of the artists and songs just played. I learned a lot listening to the tales and insights he spoke about to his audience. He was an absolute font of information and fascinating trivia about 1950s, '60s and '70s music.
Yours truly deep into the radio groove inside the third floor of an anonymous nondescript brick building in Bridgeport, Connecticut. September 2005.
Doing this oldies show at WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, CT on Saturday evenings was probably the most fun thing I've ever done!
Ever since falling in love with the fast pace, tight formats and on-air personalities of classic Top-40 radio in my childhood years, I finally got my own shot it! (and it lasted for almost 19 years!).
As a weekend show, I had complete control over the contents. The show was a mix of well known tunes along with copious amounts of B-sides, as well as many album tracks which should have become hits in their time, but never did. Numerous vintage jingles and commercials from my collection copied to broadcast tape carts added to the overall recreation of the way radio used to sound.
At 10,000 watts, we were getting calls and requests from most of Connecticut, Long Island and even parts of Rhode Island and upstate New York.
A friend and fellow radio DJ and aircheck collector, Bob Gilmore, took this shot during my intro talk-up of Led Zeppelin's awesome hit "Whole Lotta Love" from the spring of 1970.
Doing this oldies show at WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, CT on Saturday evenings was probably the most fun thing I've ever done!
Ever since falling in love with the fast pace, tight formats and on-air personalities of classic Top-40 radio in my childhood years, I finally got my own shot it! (and it lasted for over 19 years!).
As a weekend show, I had complete control over the contents. The show was a mix of well known tunes along with copious amounts of B-sides, as well as many album tracks which should have become hits in their time, but never did. Numerous vintage jingles and commercials from my collection copied to broadcast tape carts added to the overall recreation of the way radio used to sound.
At 10,000 watts, we were getting calls and requests from most of Connecticut, Long Island and even parts of upstate New York.
A friend and fellow radio nut took this shot using my Pentax Auto 110 camera. The smallest SLR ever built, it used 110 film!
I was the last DJ at the station to still use these. They gave my oldies show a real old-school sound between tunes. Besides, it was fun to fire them off during song intros and get the "magic overlap" up to the start of the vocal that modern automation systems aren't capable of doing.
La DAD in Italia nel 1933.
L'Ente Radio Rurale, costituito negli anni '30, fu incaricato di organizzare programmi radiofonici rivolti in particolare agli alunni del primo ciclo delle scuole rurali e agli agricoltori dei villaggi del Regno e fornire loro una radio dedicata.
Le trasmissioni scolastiche ebbero inizio nell'aprile 1934 a cadenza trisettimanale (il lunedì, il mercoledì e il sabato alle ore 10.30 per una durata di circa 30 minuti. Gli alunni si dovevano sintonizzare in un ascolto simultaneo, sotto la vigile sorveglianza dell'insegnante. Il progetto didattico prevedeva un primo momento di preparazione all'ascolto gestito dal docente, un momento centrale in cui era protagonista la radio che raccoglieva gli studenti in ossequioso ascolto e un ultimo momento di scrittura dei contenuti dei programmi (fonte: www.indire.it).
Anche la macchina fotografica di questo scatto è degli anni '30:
Balda Baldina, Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 2,8/50mm.
Ilford FP4+, Ilfosol3 1+9, 4m 15s.
CanoScan 9000F Mark II
This was an absolute blast. The show simulated the format, pacing and energy of vintage Top-40 radio, specifically the Bill Drake formatted stations like KHJ in Los Angeles and CKLW in Windsor, Ontario. I used 1960s and 70s digitally remastered jingles, promos and contests from my collection and copied them to tape carts for airplay. The show also featured real vintage commercials for products which no longer existed.
As a weekend show, I had complete control over the contents. The show was a mix of well known tunes along with copious amounts of B-sides, as well as many album tracks which should have become hits in their time, but never did.
At 10,000 watts, we were getting calls and requests from most of Connecticut, Long Island and even parts of upstate New York.
Often long-distance listeners on the internet would also call in to make requests and comment on the show.
I had a key to the transmitter room and would crank the Aphex Compellor audio compressor settings WAY up to give our broadcast output that old-time sound of loudness and punchiness.
Every show was recorded on DAT or VHS-HiFi tapes and I've since remastered them to CDs for my aircheck collection at home. In fact, I'm listening to one right now as I write this!
"I don't know what to think. The metal casing is definitely extraterrestrial . . . not found on this earth. Friction with the earth's atmosphere usually tears holes in a meteorite. This thing is smooth and, as you can see, of cylindrical shape...."
WYLL-1160 transmitter site in Des Plaines, four towers view from the southeast. This site will also be home to Chicago's WSCR-670 and WBBM-780.
WJR 760 AM Detroit radio art deco transmitter building was designed in 1934 and is located in Riverview, Michigan.
KOFI-1180 studio Kalispell, Montana. This station used to dominate the western U.S. on this frequency.
The BBC were, from early days, enthusiastic publishers, and this is typical of their output in the 1930s when numerous such booklets that supported radio broadcasts were issued - mostly on 'educational' subjects that were for 'regular' listeners and not just the separate schools educational broadcasts, and they included illustrative materials that supported the talks and discussions.
This was a series of 12 weekly broadcasts from October to December 1937 that covered what was a keen topic of the day - industrial design and its application to 'things around' you. The talks covered topics such as the home, its fittings and fixtures, architecture, town and country planning. The talks were by Anthony Bertram and the cover is by Raymond McGrath. B.Arch, ARIBA. McGrath was Australian born and went on, from 1940, to a long and distinguished career in architecture and design in Éire.
By the late 1930s the BBC commissioned some excellent designers including typography to make these booklets themselves 'fit for purpose' to use the phrase of Frank Pick, deputy chairman of London Transport at the time and who had been a long term proponent of such design issues along with the Design & Industries Association.
The almost 370 meter (1214 feet) high Christmas tree in the Gerbrandy Broadcast Tower is a Christmas tree-shaped set of lights that are attached to the large radio transmission tower in IJsselstein, the Netherlands and is, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the largest Christmas tree in the world.
From Wikipedia - it was the tallest antenna in North America. Its height was reduced to 808 feet (246 m) in 1939 when it was discovered that the taller tower was causing self-cancellation in the "fringe" areas of reception of the station (it is now known that 195 electrical degrees, about 810 feet, is the optimum height for a Class A station on that frequency).
WBBM-780 Chicago transmitter site in Itasca, Illinois, June 11, 2019 just before moving to Bloomingdale.
Hawaii KGU-760 transmitter site at Ahui Ave. at Kewalo Basin, right next to a seafood restaurant. Also KHNR-690 and KHCM-880, KZOO-1210 tower site.
"NBC Radio City Hollywood Studio Tour. National Broadcasting Company, Inc. A Radio Corporation of America Service. Western Headquarters. The world's greatest broadcasting system. Sunset and Vine, Hollywood, California."
According to Wikipedia, "The West Coast Radio City opened in 1938 and served as headquarters to the NBC Radio Networks' (Red and Blue) West Coast operations.... The architect for the distinctive Streamline Moderne building at Hollywood and Vine was John C. Austin.... In 1964, the West Coast Radio City building was demolished, as NBC moved more of their West Coast television operations to the Burbank facility. The site is now occupied by a bank."
WBBM-780 Chicago transmitter site in Itasca, Illinois, June 11, 2019 just before moving to WSCR-670 Bloomingdale.
This scan is from a small photo in the Encore yearbook for 1978. That's a rack of carts in the background where all the jingles and promos were stored on the radio version of 8 track tapes. Those square headphones are so 1970s!
Radio was completely analog back them. No automation computers like today. You had to know how to back-queue records, fire them up at just the right moment after a jingle, talk them up to the vocal, remove the previous record, get the next tune ready for airplay and think of something clever to say. You also had to handle the phones for requests and write an entry in a log of the songs you played. It took work and experience to make everything sound completely seamless and effortless. I loved every second of it!
First Trans-Atlantic radio signal was received by Gugliemo Marconi at this site on Signal Hill in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Caption: A ladies' trio provides music for the Gospel Hour on the radio. The women are not identified. Fort Wayne, Indiana, City Mission.
Citation: Mennonite Board of Missions Photograph Collection. Indiana, Fort Wayne City Mission, 1950-1951. IV-10-7.2, Box 5, Folder 08, Photo #12. Mennonite Church Archives. Elkhart, Indiana.
WMVP-1000 AM radio transmitter, WCFL for many years, will be demolished soon, but was still standing in May 2025.
Taken from The Telegraph, Wednesday 18 September, 1929:
LITTLE MISS BRISBANE'S OFFERING.
The other evening a novel entertainment was provided for the children by "Little Miss Brisbae" in the form of a "Cat's Concert." One of the main features was the fact that every item was original, each item being woven into a story by "L.M.B." herself. "Bebe," whose piano playing is a treat for little listeners, composed her own little number "In My Garden." "Bunty's" little story in verse was delightful. Mr. Scott MacCullum, 4QG's musical director, played a violin solo of his own composition, "At Everning-Shadow's Fall," which was dainty and appropriate, and Mr. S. Grice, whose cornet playing is well known in Brisbane, composed a splendid number, "Fireworks." It is interesting to note that Mr. Grice commenced his composition at 3 o'clock on the Wednesday afternoon, and completed it in time to play in the Children's Session. He also composed a dainty little fox trot number, "Dainty Doll," for pianoforte, violin and cornet, which was well received.
The story concerned the entertainment of the "Kit Cat Club" by Mrs. Tabitha Catt, and her son, Tommy Catt, several of the guests combining to form a little concert party. At the conclusion of each item claps and cat meows indicated the appreciation of the audience. The humor and novelty was greatly appreciated by little listeners, and their letters told how interested the pets in their own homes were at hearing the meows through the loud speaker.
Queensland State Archives Item ID 435751, Photographic material
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This Boy's Life, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Ellen Barkin was filmed in Concrete.
Wikipedia Excerpt:
Orson Welles' War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast On October 30, 1938, Seattle's CBS affiliate radio stations KIRO and KVI broadcast Orson Welles' now famous War of the Worlds radio drama. While this broadcast was heard around the country, some of the most terrified listeners were in Concrete.
At the point of the drama where the Martian invaders were invading towns and the countryside with flashes of light and poison gases, a power failure suddenly plunged almost the entire town of 1,000 into darkness. Some listeners fainted while others grabbed their families to head up into the mountains. Other more enterprising locals headed for the surrounding hills to guard their moonshine stills. One man was said to have jumped up out of his chair and, in bare feet, run the two miles (3 km) from his home to the center of town. Some of the men grabbed their guns, and one businessman – a devout Catholic – got his wife into the family car, drove to the nearest service station and demanded gasoline. Without paying the attendant, he rushed off to Bellingham (some forty-miles away) in order to see his priest for a last-minute absolution of sins. The distraught man reportedly told the gas-station attendant that paying for the gas "[wouldn't] make any difference, everyone is going to die!".
Because the phone lines (as well the electricity) were out, the town's residents were unable to call neighbors, family, or friends to verify that their fears were legitimate. Of course, the real story was not as fantastic as the fictional radio drama – all that had occurred was that the Superior Portland cement company's electrical sub-station suffered a short-circuit with a flash of brilliant light, and all the town's lights went dark. The more conservative radio-listeners in Concrete (who had been listening to Charlie McCarthy on another station), attempted to calm neighbors, reporting that they hadn't heard a thing about any "disaster". Reporters heard soon after of the coincidental blackout of Concrete, and sent the story out over the international newswire and soon the town of Concrete was known (if only for a moment) worldwide.
• The town's history is wild - here's a good, amply illustrated read:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete,_Washington
• NOTE: A link to the Orson Welles 1938 radio program is provided below.