[sdiy] OT: FM radio, was:Buffy St. Maries Buchla album????

[Don Tillman]

   Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 16:50:19 +0100
   From: Ingo Debus <debus at cityweb.de>

   FM radio was introduced in the US in the seventies? Wasn't that earlier?
   Here in Germany it was introduced in the early fifties. Or do you mean
   FM stereo radio?

I meant that the *market* was experimental; it was growing, trying out
ideas, and very different than it is today.  "What should we
broadcast?"  "Who are the listeners?" "We got stereo, what can we do
with that?"

Commercial FM was actually introduced in the US in the mid 40's,
stereo broadcasts started in '61, and by the mid 60's there were
certainly classical, jazz, and "easy listening" stations.

But in the late 60's there were far fewer FM stations than there are
today, I don't think FM car radios existed in any quantity yet,
popular music wasn't heard on FM radio, there was no Howard Stern :-),
that sort of thing.

"No static at all."

   -- Don

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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California, USA
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