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Jun 7 Harris / Gates Magazines   Added 117 issues of the company magazines for Gates and Harris from 1947 to 1986
June 6 Variety   Added the 65th, 67th and 70th anniversary editions from 1971, 1974 and 1976
  Television Factbook   Added the service volume from the 1973-1974 Factbook edition.
June 4 Variety   Added the 1955 49th anniversary issue with almost 300 pages of the year in review and lots of industry ads.
  Radio Network Publicatioins   Added the 1940 NBC "Art for Your Sake" promotional brochure
  ASCAP   Added Autumn 1967 issue of ASCAP Today
  BMI Many Worlds of Music   Added Issue #1 from 1981
Added Issue #4 from 1977
June 3 Practical Electrics   Added four issues from 1922 and 1923 to this Gernsback publication
  EQ Magazine   Added December 2008
Added January 2007
  RF Design   Added January through May of 1991
  Variety   Added the 50th Anniversary issue from 1956
Added the 55th Anniversary issue from 1961
  Radio TV Experimenter   Added the 1970 special edition "Radio TV Repair".
  Billboard   Added the February 1977 "Campus Attractions" special edition.
  Early Radio Technical Miscellaneous   Added Radio Frequency Amplifiers A 34 page booklet from 1922
June 2 KRLA Beat   Fixed resolution issue with all issues. Now they are readable!
Jun 1 SAG-AFTRA   Added the Spring 2025 issue
  RF Design   Added 55 issues of this engineering magazine for RF designers, engineers and students.
  ASCAP   Added Spring 1981 issue of ASCAP in Action.
  Modern Era Collection   Added the Concord Radio 1958 Buyer's Guide catalog.
Added McGraw-Hill Electronics Buyer's Guide July 1961
May 31 Radio & Records
"R&R"
  Added the 6 missing issues from 1976, completing that year. Also added the Fall 1976 ratings review supplement.
We have nearly all the missing issues, but as they are in tightly bound "archive" volumes, it takes great time to scan them. So check back often to see if more have been added!
Many thanks to Erika Farber and the Library of American Broadcasting.
  KRLA Beat   Added 129 issues of the KRLA Beat, a magazine issued for listeners of this Top 40 radio station in the Los Angeles, California radio market. Initially it was weekly, and then became a twice a month magazine. It apparently ran from  1964 to 1968.
Issues are searchable.
Catalogs And Manuals Added BSW 2003 General Catalog
Added the Newark Electric Catalog 101 from 1971 and Number 68 from the 1950's.
Added Broadcast Electronics Catalog 105 from 1988
Added Continental. Type 317 50 kw AM transmitter small brochure and larger descriptive one
Added Continental 1981 general catalog
May 29 Radio Magazine   Added an undated "Radio Magazine Handbook". From the 1930's, it appears to predate the annual versions which followed.
  FCC
Federal Communications Commission
  Added the agreements that were part of the 1937, 1938 and 1941 NARBA treaty.
  Television Age   Added the April 3, 1951 issue
  NAB Publications   Added the 1949 "Sample Transmitter Operating Log"
Added the 1970's "NAB Services" promotional items catalog.
  Electronic Musician   Added January 1998, October 1997
  Variety   Added the 63rd Anniversary Edition from 1969
Added the 64th Anniversary Edition from 1970
These large 200 page-plus issues have a review of the year in radio, TV, film and music..
They are searchable, too.
There area half-dozen more one the way!
  Short Wave & Television   Added the special edition "How to Become and Amateur Radio Operator" from 1934
  Modern Era Miscellaneous Collection   Added the June 13 1963 issue of Time Magazine featuring General Sarnoff. We also included a variety of the ads from that issue as a reflection of the times and technology.

Added a booklet for The Railroad Hour on NBC. 1951 NBC program.
Recording Engineer & Producer Added August 1989 issue
  Speaker Builder   Added 8 issues. All are highlighted in dark red lettering. There are now 125 issues available.
  Electrician & Mechanic   Added 7 issues from 1910 of this early technology magazine. May issue has "Construciton of Wireless Station" feature article.
  RF Design   Added a new section for the 1978 to 2006 "RF Design" Magazine with 30 issues already available.
  Sound on Sound Added April September and November 1998, June 1997, January May 1996
  Billboard CHR Airplay Monitor   Added January 8 1999
  Billboard CHR Airplay Monitor   Added our first three issues from the year 2002. As always, we are constantly seeking the missing issues of the radio and music trade magazines.
  Australian Collection Added the 1983 Australian Radio Frequency Handbook
May 28 International Musician   Added September 1978 issue to the collection of the publication of the American Federation of Musicians.
May 27 FCC Publications   Added the 1939 FCC Study Guide for Radio Operator License
Added 1939 Experimental Services
Added 1939 Good Engineering Practices
Added 1949 Operator Rules Part 13
Added 1950 Operator Rules Part 13
Added 1948 Part 3 Rules Radio Broadcasting
Added 1945 Television Good Engineering Practices
  Variety   Added 66th Anniversary Edition from 1972
  Musician   Added  October of 1978
  Go Magazine   Added 8 issues from 1957 to 1969. These are from WMCA, KHJ-TV, WAKR and WFUN
  NAB Publications   Added the 1986 NAB Personal TV Diary. This is for an NAB branded television rating service.
Added a short illustrated book of "Management in the Public Interest" showing radio's part in American life.
Added the 1986 Convention Guide, the Convention Bookstore offerings and the preregistration listing of attendees.
Added the 1986 AM Groundwave Field Strength chart booklet.
Added a single issue of Radio Active from April of 1986
  Music: Miscellaneous Collection   Added the January 1982 issue of "The Record"
  Early Radio Catalogs & Manuals   Added the Crosley Radio Service Manuals 1943 and Earlier book.
  Early Radio Collection: Experimenters   Added Experimenter's Library 3 Radio Questions Answered 1924
  Modern Era Collection   Added the Electronic Engineering Master Index 1945-46. This is A Subject Index to Electronic Engineering Periodicals July 1945 to December 1946
  Wireless Weekly Added 26 issues from 1928 of this Australian radio magazine.
  Radio TV Experimenter   Added annual "Radio TV Repair" editions from 1967, 1968 and 1975
  Sencore Catalogs   Added 13 catalogs from 1969 to 1998
May 26 Harris Connection   Added the 11990 Spring issue and an undated one also from 1990
  Bookshelf: Rider Technical Books   Added volumes I and II of Rider-TV Field Service Manual with Tube Locations,by Alsburg
  Bookshelf: Technology
General Subjects
  Added Philips   Circuits with the ECL86
Added Mullard   5 Valve 10 watt high quality amplifier circuit
Added Mullard   Circuit for self contained tape amplifier
Added Mullard   Circuits for tape recorders
Added Archer Building Power Supplies, Lines
Added CBS Hytron Engineer's Handbook 1957
Added Sylvania Radio Equipment Hints Vol 1 1943
Added Sylvania Technical Bulletins
Added Electric Circuits and Machines Robertson Black 1949
Added Federal Miniature Selenium Rectifier Handbook 1949
Added Kepco Power Supply Handbook, Birman 
Added Kent's Mechanical Engineers' Handbook Kent 1943 11th Edition
Added  Osram How to Build the Osram 912
Added  Thordarson   Quality amplifiers
Added  Thordarson   Sound Amplifier Guide 1937
Added GE Visual Alignment Techniques for FM Servicing 1947 
Added UHF Radio Simplified Kiver 1945 
Added Radio Troubleshooter's Handbook Ghirardi 3rd 1943
Added Radio Component Handbook 1st 1948
May 25 Bookshelf: Education and Training   Added Television and Radio Writing Field 1958
Added Your Career in Radio Carlisle Rice 1941
  Bookshelf: Radio and TV Programming   Added BBC &_Radio Luxembourg Breeze 1999
Added Broadcast Cable Programming 3rd 1989
Added Broadcast Cable Programming Eastman 1985
Added Gumps in Radio and 1937
Added Television's Classic Commercials Diaqmant 1971
Added There's Laughter in the Air Gaver Stanley 1945
Added WHN When New York Went Country Salamon 2013
  Bookshelf: Biography   Added: Arthur Collins Radio Wizard Stearns 2002
Added Ted Turner Cable Television Tycoon Byman 1998
Added The Radio Gypsies J Blackburn 2008
Added Citizen Turner Goldberg 1995
  Bookshelf:
Commentary and Opinion
  Added Broadcast Blues Burns 1993
Added Equal Time Newton Minnow and Laurent 1964
Added The Myrkin Papers Milam 1969
Added Abandoned in the Wasteland Minow 1995
  Bookshelf: History   Added A World In Your Ear Wood 1979
Added From Beacon Fire to Radio 1924
Added Gas Pipe Networks Bloch 1980
Added
Listening In First Decade of Canadian Broadcasting Vipond 1922 32
Added Microphone Memories Credo Fitch Byon 1937
Added On A Note Of Triumph Bannerman 1986
Added Television Up To Date Hutchinson 2nd 1937
  Bookshelf: The Business of Broadcasting   Added two versions of Case Studies in Broadcast Management Coleman 1970
  Bookshelf: Audels Books   Added Audels Wiring Diagrams, 1952 printing.
  Bookshelf: Hobbyist   Added 73 Magazine's Vertical Beam Triangle Antennas
Added 73 Magazine's Dipole and Longwire Antennas
  Bookshelf: Allied
Radio Shack
  Added "Integrated Circuits" from 1971
  Bookshelf: SAMS   Added SAMS Closed Circuit Television Handbook, Wortman 
Added SAMS Radio Operators License Handbook Holt 1971 Edition 
Added SAMS Radio Spectrum Handbook 1970 
Added SAMS Tape Recorders How They Work 1956 
Added SAMS Television Tube Location Guide TGL 7, Sams 
  Books:
Technology: Radio
FM Section
  Added a new sub-section of the "Radio Technology" section covering the development of FM
Added Jones Ultra High Frequency Handbook 1937
Added An Introduction to Frequency Modulation Willis
Added Frequency Modulation Hund 1942
Added Frequency Modulation Marchand 1948
Added Frequency Modulation Sturley 1950
  Bookshelf:
Technology: Radio
  Radio Design Data for Radio Transmitters & Receivers Sleeper 192
Radio Lessons in Wireless Telegraphy Morgan 1912
Radio Modern Radio Operation Smith 1922
Radio Newnes Television and Short Wave Handbook 2nd Edition March 1935
Radio Philco Training Manual on Antennas 1951
Radio Popular Science Build Your Own radio and Hi Fi 1954
Radio Principles of Radio Henney Richardson 6th Edition 1952
Radio Radio Operating Questions and Answers Hornung 7th 1940
Radio Radio Operating Questions And Answers Hornung 10th 1950
Radio Radio Operating Questions and Answers Hornung 12th 1955
Radio Text Book On Radio Cameron 1922
Radio The Home radio Up to Date Verrill 1927
  RCA Books & Manuals   Added RCA Receiving Tube Manual RC 22 1963
Added RCA Radio Set Socket Guide 1921 to 1935
Added RCA Receiving Tube Manual RC 19 1959
May 24 Variety   Added The 1977, 1987, 1980 and 1973 anniversary editions, covering the year in film, radio, TV, music and shows.
  Electronic Musician   Added several dozen more issues between 1999 and 2017.
  Radio Magazine   Added a much improved copy of the 1935 edition of Radio Magazine's "Radio Handbook".
  Amateur Radio Defense   Replaced with improved scans January, February, April- May and June-July issues
  FCC Filings
"Our File Cabinet"
  Added three filings for initial CP, modification and Proof of Performance of KBCQ in Roswell, NM, one of the first 1-A clear channel full power second assignments
  Commercial Radio   Added February 1933 issue. This magazine began under the name of "CQ" but was not related to the later ham magazine of the same name.
  FCC Documents   Added the FCC Ground Wave Propagation Curves by frequency range from 1954
Added DataWorld's AM Allocation Maps from 1993. Large detailed map showing each station.
Added DataWorld's FM Allocation Maps from 1993. Large detailed map showing each station.
  NAB Reports   Added Full Year of 1945 with some additional pages not in our quarterly file groups.
May 21 Record World   Replaced December 17 and July 2 1977 with better scans from better originals.
May 20 Band Leaders
Big Band Page
  Added another Big Band magazine issue: Baton from February 1945
  Early Radio collection   Added "Big Shots in Radio" a picture album of radio's most famous stars
Added the Radio Photo Log from around 1940 or 1941. Includes listing and article about early TV.
  Lafayette Catalogs   Added a vastly improved scan of the 1937 Radio & Sound Systems catalog.
  New Musical Express Added December 22 1979. This is our first issue from that year! We welcome scans of issues you may have in your own collection.
May 19 ARRL Handbooks Added the 1929 Radio Amateur's Handbook. We now only need 2 editions to complete our 1926-1984 collection.
  Station Magazines   Added the Spring 1928 issue of the WCFL Radio Magazine- 100 pages of articles about radio, a station list, and features about WCFL, "The Voice of Labor".
Variety Added a new section for the annual "Anniversary Editions" of Variety Magazine, covering the year in film, radio, TV, music and shows.
BMI Music World Added Summer 2009 edition.
Hits Added the February 14 2003 issue with 50 Cent on cover.
RPM Added March 24 1979, December 11 1982 and February 5, 1983
May 16 RPM Added the July 0 1983 issue
May 15 Electronic Musician Added 160 issues ranging from 1989 to 2019
May 7 Station Albums and Publications Added the 1946 filing before the FCC by WOAI, San Antonio, detailing in 148 pages its programming, community activities and operations. Includes extensive program logs. Extensive photos of studios and transmitter.
Added Memphis' WREX "Sign On: The first 50 years"
Added WGY "65 Years" booklet
  Fabulous| Added June 27 1964
  Early Radio Miscellaneous Magazines   Added The Technician from March 1935 
Added Broadcast Listener from September and December of 1926
  Musician   Added August 1979 as we work to add the earliest editions of this magazine which ran from 1976 to 1999. We now have 515 total issues of this title.
  Radio Ink
The Pulse
  Added January 27 1989 issue of The Pulse.
  BMI Canada Added booklet "When It's BMI Canada Ltd It's Yours!  a 1947 Booklet
  National Association of Broadcasters NAB   Added The Televisoin Code editions for 1975 and 1976.
Added Radio W.A.R.S How to Survive in the 90's.
  Satellite Radio Listening Studies   Added a number of custom listening studies from Arbitron for both Sirius and XM satellite services covering 2002-2004
Arbitron Added 1996 Description of Methodology (Radio)
Added 1979 Non-Response Study
Added Media Insight for Adelphi  2002
Added Media Insight for Agency Perception of Cable 2003
Added 1995 Radio Schedule Audience Estimate Reliability
Added 2002 Media Insight Agency perceptions of cable.
Added 2005 Chinese listening in LA.
Added Arthur Nielsen's study after 2 years of the Audimeter in 1944.
Added 1986 Arbitron Research Roundtable "The Competition"
Added the 2005 Arbitron Custom Listening Study for 790 The Ticket in Miami
  Birch Radio   Added "7 Day Methods Test" from 1987
Added early 1990's Effect of New Telephone Technolgies"
Added 2000 Nielsen "The First 50 Years" Report on Television".
Added Birch "Birch Vs. Arbitron: A Researcher's Perspective" from 1988
Added Birch Market List from 1991
Added the Birch Scarborough "Issues Facing Radio researchers in the 90's"
Added Birch-Scarborough's "Issues Facing Radio Researchers in the 90's"
Added 1992 study "How America Found Out About the Gulf War"
Added the 1990 Birch Radio Sourcebook "How Birch Meassures Radio"
  Audience
Measurement
  Added the 1987 Independent Television study "Adjusting Diary Ratings for Misreporting.
Added the 2019 Stats Radio "The Guide" for COLRAM
From RAB: Radio Facts for Advertisers 1989
  IRE Proceedings   Replaced May 1965 edition with complete copy including ads and covers.
Added the May 1957 Index
  CBS Radio   Added the 1938 FCC presentation by the Columbia Broadcasting System showing coverage of the network in many full color maps along with charts. (Scroll down the page to find CBS material)
  General Electric Catalogs   Added the 1959 Broadcast Equipment Audio Data Book
  Harris Gates Catalogs   Added June 1980 Catalog.
  RCA Collection   Added 25 Years of Radio Progress with RCA from 1944
May 1 Radio World   Added all regular issues and 6 special editions from 2022
  The Rolling Stones Book Added 20 issues and a "Special Issue" from June 1964 to November 1968
Hickok Oscillograph Added a new section for the technical bulletins from Hickok.
Lafayette Catalogs Added Winter 1949 catalog #591
EQ Magazine Added 74 issues from 1990 to 2011
  Melody Maker Added August 20 1977
Band Leaders Added the January 1943 issue.
Sound Choice Added Spring 1985 issue
Canadian Musician Added May/June 2002 and July/August 2014
Movie Radio Guide Added the June 27 1942 issue. Now the only missing editions are from  1933
Early Radio Catalogs Added Wholesale Radio Service Spring 1932 catalog
Added Hammarlund 1940 catalog of components and communications receivers.
Early Radio Miscellaneous Magazines Added two issues from 1941 of "The Technician"
Funktechnik Added the four missing issues from 1953.
Apr 29 Fabulous|1 Added June 27 1964
Sound on Sound Added July, September. October, December 1995, February 1997
Apr 26 BBC London Calling Added April 6 1941
Cash Box Added three issues from the short-lived 2019-2019 revival of this magazine.
  Harris Connection   Added the Spring 1986 issue of Harris Connection, a predecessor to the 90's publication called "Broadcast Communiqué".
  Equipment Brochures and Manuals   Added: 1994 Telos Call Screen Manager manual
Added Altec consoles brochure from 1957
Added Audio Services catalog (UK) from 1985)
Babani Books Added BP 770 Getting Started with BBC Microbit
Apr 25 Radio Electronics   Added the 1949 Special Edition "101 Circuits". There are many Radio Electronics specials listed at the bottom of that magazine's page.
  Station Picture Albums and Brochures   Added a small booklet likely from the earlier 1930's from WJR in Detroit.
Added a station profile photo album from KWBB in Dubuque, Iowa from 1941 featuring talent, management, studios and antennas and network shows as well as pictures of Dubuque.
  U. S. F. M. Magazine   Added 11 issues of this publication which began in 1960 to cover the growth of FM radio in the United States. We have all issues from the first through August 1962. We do not know whether this magazine continued after that date.

Not to be confused with Milton Sleeper's 40's and early 50's "FM Magazine".
Apr 22 FCC Financial Reports
(1970's)
A Request!
  In the 70's stations in markets with over three stations had to submit annual financial reports to the FCC. I have been unable to find any examples and am asking for help. There must be a station or two that has these filed away at the transmitter site or a storage facility.
Apr 20 Indiana Historical Radio Society   Added 10 issues, filling in from 1978 to Winter of 2023.
  High Fidelity Trade News   Added September 1964 of this home electronics dealer magazine.
Lenkurt Demodulator Added 16 issues from the 60's and 70's.
Apr 18 Melody Maker Added over 30 issues from the late 70's and early 80's.
  Mix Magazine   Added January 2000 issue
  Merchandising Week   Added 5 issues from 1964 of this home radio, TV and appliance dealer publication. Many articles and ads for radios, TVs and music devices
Apr 17 Record World   Added April 30 1977 edition. It has taken nearly 20 years, but we are getting close to a full set from 1964 onwards. Any help in finding the missing ones or the most early issues is welcome.

Remember, this site is totally "endowed" by my retirement income and user contributions of publications (we don't take cash or credit cards, though!) 
  CMJ New Music   Added April and September 2000 and December 1996
  Station Picture Albums and Brochures   Added the 1940 WING Dayton, Ohio picture album featuring the station facilities, staff and programs and much information about Dayton.
  Modern Era Collection
(Post WW II)
  Added "Motorola for 1952" a catalog of consumer radios with full color illustrations of very interesting 50's styles.
Added the 1968 brochure for IGM Series 600 audio control systems; this was an early radio total automation system. It used "punch cards" to schedule!
Added the Radio Free Europe What it is & What it Does 1922/63 pamphlet
  Early Radio Hobbyist   Added Popular Science's The Standard Radio Guide subtitled "How to enjoy radio at home." From 1922
  Communications   Added June 1938. We now only need three issues to complete the 1937 to 1949 run of this magazine. Communications Magazine published from September 1937 to 1949 details the technical side of radio and related fields with particularly interesting articles on stations and the development of FM in the 40's.
  Early Radio Catalogs and Manuals   Added 6 one-page 1922 Atwater Kent instruction sheets.
Added the Atwater Kent comprehensive radio service manual for all models 1928 (scan of reprint)
Added Bud Radio Parts Catalog from 1939
  Fabulous| Added March 9 1968
Apr 13 Fabulous Added June 6 1964, March 9 1968 and October 1 1966
  Radio   Added a full copy with ads and cover of the December 1935 edition.
  Radio News
Special Editions
  Added the 1930 Radio News Short Wave Annual. Note that this came from the library of the Federal Communications Commission... showing how many institutions are discarding historical publications about radio.
  Radio Service Dealer   Added September 1942 issue. We are now missing only 4 issues to complete this magazine.
  Wireless Weekly Australia Added an excellent copy of the February 8, 1924 edition.
  The Experimenter
Practical Electrics
  Added the February 1923 issue of Practical Electrics (the predecessor to Gernsback's Experimenter magazine.)
  UK Collection Added four issues from 1964 of "Rolling Stones Book".
  Broadcast Engineering Collection   Added our first issue of Frequency Modulation Business, date July 1946
  CMJ New Music   Added the September 1996 issue.
  RCA News   Added the March 1931 edition of this RCA employee publication. While this one certainly shows its age and is deteriorated, this is only the 3rd example of this magazine I have seen in 20 years of searching.
  New Musical Express Added the 1967 Summer Special
Apr 4 Proceedings of the IRE   Added March April June 1961 and replaced incomplete issues for August September and February.
Mar 26 Melody Maker Added three more issues from 1965
Added one issue from 1966
  Pro-Audio Review   Added 5 issues from 2014
  Rockpile Magazine   Added 7 issues of this 1995 to 2006 magazine about, naturally, rock.
  Modern Era Collection   Added the National Electronic Equipment catalog from 1948. Includes the top-of-the-line communications receivers
  U.K. Miscellaneous Added our first issue of "Wireless Retailer and Broadcaster" from October 1938
  RCA Publications   Added RCA Receiving Tube Manual RC 16 1953
Added RCA Receiving Tubes 1950
Added RCA Receiving Tubes 1956
Added RCA Test Equipment 1937
  ProSound   Added over 20 additional issues from 2013 to 2020
  Early Radio Catalogs   Added the Delco Radio for 1941 Catalog
  Popular Wireless Added four issues from 1936
  Band Leaders   Added November 1943 issue of this consumer magazine about, of course, the "Big Bands".
Mar 25 Early Radio Collection   Added "Do You Know?" The answers to 50 questions about radio telephony. Sales brochure for electronic servicing training.
  NBC Network Publications   Added the 1938 "The NBC Symphony Orchestra" with a profile of the orchestra and its musicians.
  Radio Luxembourg Added the 1963 Book of Record Stars with dedication by Frank Sinatra.
Also added two issues of "208 from 1952 and 1955
  General Electric Monogram   Added January/February 1952 issue and July 1954 edition.
Mar 24 Electronic Musician   Added December 2004 issue
  BMI   Added this music licensing agency's 1952 publication "Meet the Artist" with profiles and recording histories of the most well known BMI authors and comosers.
  General Electric Monogram   Added the 1971 issue of the GE Campus Monogram.
Mar 23 Melody Maker   Added three issues from 1965.
Mar 22 CODA Added most issues between 1971 and 1996 of this Canadian jazz magazine.
  ProSound   Added our first issues of ProSound (ProSound News later on), a music sound and sound business magazine started in 1978. We will add more in weeks to come.
Mar 21 Broadcasting & Cable   Added 21 issues from 2021 to 2024. In April of 2021 the magazine went from weekly to monthly publication.
  Merchandising Week   Added 28 issues from 1965 of this electrical and electronic dealer magazine.
  Mart   Added 14 issues from 1964, 1965 and 1966. This is another electrical and electronic dealer magazine.
Mar 19 FM
FM & Television
  Completed the issues for 1947: Mar, Apr, Aug, Nov.
Completed the issues for 1946: Sept and May
Completed the issues for 1949: Feb, Nov, Dec
Completed the issues for 1945 Sept, May,
Completed the issues for 1944 from January to Dec
Completed the issues for 1943 from January to Nov-Dec
Completed the issues for 1942: June, Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec
All issues are searchable.
  Radio Age   Replaced Radio Age May 1923 with better scan.
  Religious Broadcasting   Added 22 more issues from 1989 to 1996. They are underlined.
  Modern Electrics   Added June and November 1910 and January, March and April of 1913
  Radio Service Dealer   Added September 1943 edition.
  Lafayette Catalogs   Added the 1949 Lafayette Concord Catalog 949, 1961 catalog 612, 613 and 615, 1963 catalog 633
  Early Radio Catalogs   Added the Harrison Electrical Radio Catalog from Chicago from 1941
  Station Booklets and Albums   Add the 1995 "KGO on the Go" album with station talent profiles and pictures and San Francisco features.
  Electronic Musician   Added December 2018
  Sound on Sound Added 19 issues. They are underlined.
  Gavin Report   Added May 2, 1986 issue
  BMI Magazine   Added Summer 1970 issue of this magazine for the composers, authors and publishers associated with Broadcast Music Incorporated.
  Hits   Added Oct 9 1998 and 5 issues (underlined) from 2002, 2002 and 2003, Sept 6 1993, Mar 31 2000,
  Radio Club of America | Added the 1950 special edition, "Story of the First Trans-Atlantic Message"
Mar 15 Merchandising Week   Added a new publication with over 75 issues from 1965 to 1967. This was a trade magazine for retailers of electrical and electronics products, and dated back, under other titles, to the 1870's!
The featured years have considerable content about FM radios, given the increase in sales caused by FM stereo and FCC rule changes. 
  Electronic Musician   Added September 1991 edition
  Electronic Design Added all but 3 editions from 1997
  CMA Close Up   Added 99 issues of the Country Music Association's "Close Up2 ranging from 1955 to 1999.
There are now 150 issues in our collection and they are all searchable.
  Billboard Special Editions   Added thee 1990 International Recording Equipment and Studio Directory.
  Brill's Content   Added June 2001
Mar 10 Music Row   Added August 8, 1987 issue
  Funkt-Technik Finished adding all 887 issues and their annual index supplements where available. The magazine is now searchable.
  EQ   Added June 1999 and July 1997
  Brill's Content   Added March, 2000 issue
Mar 9 Bookshelf: Regulatory   Added "Red Channels" the report of Communist Influence in Radio And Television from 1950
  Funkt-Technik Began adding over 500 hundred issues of this 1946 to 1986 German radio, TV and electronics magazine.
  Mart   Added a new section for Mart which was a consumer electric and electronics magazine. It features many reports and ads about consumer radios, stereos and TV sets. A good number of articles in these first editions cover FM stereo and how it was causing greater sales of FM sets.
We have 17 issues now and will look for more.
  Coyne Electrical School   Added the 1947 booklet "Starting and Operating a Profitable Electrical or Radio Business" from 1947
  Radio Service Dealer   Added July and August of 1943. We only need 6 issues to complete this collection.
  Electronic Musician   Added all issues from 2005 including the "Computer Music Product Guide" special edition.
Mar 5 Scanning for this Website   Updated the description of the equipment used to scan and process documents for this website. This 9includes our motherboard upgrade to a Gigabyte AI Top and a Ryzen Threadrippper 7964 CPU
Feb 25 Rock & Folk   Added 23 issues of this French pop music magazine. They are from 1966 to 1968
  Hits    Added 1993 7th Anniversary special edition.
Added two issues from December 1992
Added December 24 1990
Added 6th Anniversary special edition from 1992
  RPM    Added Photo Album supplement from November 21, 1966 
Added 1978 Spring Canadian Music Directory
  Rockpíle    Added 5 issues between 2000 and 2005
Feb 24 Religious
Broadcaster / NRB
  Added the magazine of the religious broadcaster association. Nearly 200 issues will be added over the next few days, spanning the later 1980's to 2006
We have populated the page with 203 issues of this magazine. All are searchable now.
Feb 22 Electronic Musician   Added November 2002 issue
  Early Radio Magazines   Added "Edition B" of "General Electric Radio", a magazine from June 1930 announcing the pending sale at retail of General Electric's new line of radios. Includes an article about the development of television.
Feb 21 TV Factbook   Added Volume 2 from 2007, Cable Television
Added full volume 1 of 2011 Factbook (TV stations with maps and data)
  Billboard   Added the June 10 1972 Directory of Recording Studios, Part II of that week's edition.
Feb 16 Billboard   Added to the largest existing collection of Billboard special editions: 1966 Coin Machine Directory
  Company Magazines
Searchable Now
  The set of all company magazines that are not from RCA are searchable. Soon each company's subset of just that one publication will be searchable from the search menu.
  General Electric Review   Added a much better scan of all the issues of  the 1919 General Electric Review.
  Sound on Sound   Added issues from 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998
  Lafayette Catalogs   Added: New Scan of Lafayette Radio Supplement #88 1947
Added: High Fidelity Guide #3 from 1951
Added: Gift Guide #306 from 1957
  Modern Electrics   Added December 1912 of this early Gernsback publication.
  Early Radio Miscellaneous Collections   Made all publications in the miscellaneous early radio collections of Magazines, Catalogs, Assorted, Hobbyist and Programming & Management searchable.
  Early Radio Magazines   Added Broadcasting Magazine for the Home, September 1927 issue.
  Modern Era Collection   Added sales brochure for "F.B.I. Funny Business Incorporated" a comedy radio network.
  Early Radio Programming & Management   Added General Electric's Booklet "How W47A Did It" (An FM success story from 1941. )
Added General Electric's "How to Plan an FM station" 1941 booklet
Added General Electric's 50,000 Watts of FM. 1941 booklet.
Feb 15 Modern Electrics   Added 5 issues from 1912 of this early Gernsback publication.
Feb 10 Sound on Sound Added 15 issues from the 1990's. These are huge issues, often reaching 300 pages each!
  Go Magazine   Added a new page for this 1960's pop music magazine which had local editions with individual radio stations. It included national music and artist news, and features about the sponsoring radio station in each participating market.
  Canadian Musician Added 13 issues from 2001 onwards.
  Station Albums   Added the 1950-2000 KOEL Oelwein, Iowa,
  Proceedings of the IRE   Completed the collections for 1955 and 1956.
  Canada Collection Added the Canadian Radio Data book from 1943 Picture Souvenir Book. Station listing,, suppliers and articles about the industry.
  EQ Magazine   Added January 1997 issue
  Hits   Added April 28, 2017
  Early Radio Programming   Added: Bachelor's Children, a booklet by Bess Flynn for sponsor Old Dutch Cleanser
1939
Feb 3 Electronic Musician   Added over 40 issues from 1999 to 2013. As is our custom, new ones are underlined.
  Modern Era Collection   Added Merchandising Week from September 19, 1966 covering expanding color TV market. Full of ads for TV and electronics.
  Electronic Design   Added issues from 1996 and 1998. They are underlined.
Radio Station Picture Albums and Brochures Added the 1929 WLBW Oil City Pennsylvania booklet.
  Radio Instructor   Added two more issues of this 1922 early radio magazine which began as Radio Digest, only to discover that there was another magazine with that name.
  Television Factbook   Added the "Services" volume from Edition 40, 1979-1971.
Jan 29 Hammarlund Receiver
Early Radio Manuals
  Added the 1929 Hammarlund HiQ 30 manual, complete with pictures of the various cabinet options ranging from $25 to $600 (Equivalent of about $11,000 today!)
  NAB Publications
(National Association of Broadcasters)
  Added the 1985 NAB booklet about its Drug and Alcohol Abuse Campaign
Added an undated booklet "Tuning In: The Senate, The House, The NAB"
  SAG-AFTRA   Added 15 issues of the magazine for members of the SAG-AFTRA union.
Jan 28 Giants Of Broadcasting   Added the 2003 to 2014 commemorative books of "The Giants of Broadcasting" from the Library of American Broadcasting at the University of Maryland. The first edition recognizes 50 biggest names, from Edwin Armstrong and Guglielmo Marconi to Powel Crosley and William Paley at Bing Crosby and Walter Cronkite. The following editions recognized a group of broadcasting's "stars" each year.
Jan 27 IRE Convention Record   Added all 10 sections of the 1958 convention presentation transcripts, ranging from audio and radio to computers.
Jan 26 Hawkins Electrical Guide   Added all 10 volumes of the Hawkins Electrical Guide from 1917. This set is a marvelous picture of general electrical and radio technology just before private and commercial radio stations began to be licensed in the U.S.
  Radio Logs and Station Lists   Added the International Radio Log from Hosburgh-Cannon from 1930
  RCA Catalogs and Guides   Added the 1946 Grounded Grid Power Amplifier book by Spitzer
  Australia Miscellaneous   Added the Hills Masts and Towers catalog.
  Modern Era Collection   Added the November 6 1967 issue of Merchandising Week featuring the large increase in FM radio sales.
  File Cabinet
(Station Filings and Applications)
  Added 1947 Proposal for new 10 kw FM in Shreveport LA.
  Westinghouse Catalogs   Added Broadcast Transmitter Designs
Added New FM Frequency Control Circuit brochure from 1946
Added Westinghouse 1947 proposal from new FM station in Shreveport, LA. Very early FM!
Added 1946 10 KW FM transmitter brochure with diagrams
  International Television & Video Almanac   Added the 1994 edition. We are now only missing one edition from 1956 to 2014.
  Radio Guide   Added October 14, 1933 issue. We still need 6 issues of this title to achieve the only full collection of this publication known to exist.
  RCA Collections   Added a reprint of an undated "RCA Radiolas & Radiotrons".booklet
  Westinghouse Engineer   We recently bought a collection of this journal on eBay. On the inside of the bound volumes was a small sticker indicating that the 1941-1965 set had been donated by a graduate. The university discarded them and they ended up on eBay. Much of the history of radio and related technology is being removed this way from libraries. WorldRadioHistory endeavors to preserve these publications.
  Proceedings of the IRE   Added "Proceedings" from January and June of 1955
  Hits   Added the 2024 Rainmakers special edition.
Jan 25 EQ   Added 18 issues filling in many gaps.
Added a further 20 issues. All the new adds are underlined.
Jan 24 Electronic Musician   Added 24 issues from the 1980's and 1990's. They are underlined for easy identification.
  Brill's Content   Added 8 issues from 2000 and 2001
  Electronic Design   Added 7 issues from the first months of 1998.
  Electronics   Added the 1980 50th Anniversary commemorative edition. Nearly 700 pages detailing the magazine and the electronics industry over that half-century period. Many congratulatory ads from companies in the field.
  Syndicator Publications   Added an undated Drake Chenault Contemporary Music music library service catalog.
  Arbitron Reports   Added 1985 announcement of expanded "continuous measurement" and 1986 Advisory Council report on radio weighting.
Jan  20 Westinghouse Engineer Added 4 issues from 1951 and 1952
  ASCAP Playback   Added issues 9 issues from the 2000's and 2010's They are underlined.
We Welcome Your Contribution of Missing Issues or Additional Titles, Specials and Books.
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