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Jan 7 Television Quarterly Added 9 issues between 1986 and 1990
Television Factbook Added the Spring-Summer and Fall-Winter 1958 Factbook editions
  "Radio at War" Booklets   Added the Radio at War booklet from WDZ, Tuscola, Illionois.
  Station Albums and Booklets   Added "Our First 30 Years" from WGBF in Evansvile, Indiana from 1953.
  Television Digest   Added all issues from 1989 and 1994
  Record   Added 5 issues.
  Short Wave & Television   Added t6he 1935 Short Wave Beginner's Book
  Radio Logbooks and Station Listings   Added Stevenson's Radio Bulletin for 1935. Includes stations in Canada, Mexico and Cuba.
  Rockpile   Added September 2002
  Musician   Added April 1979 a
  Music Collection   Added June July 1999 issue of "Hit List"
  Hits   Added August 14 1998, December 20 and May 3 2002
  Canadian Musician   Added May-June 2015 and January-February 2018
  Electronic Musician   Added January, July, August 1991, December 1990- There are now over 410 issues in this collection.
  BMI Magazine   Added Summer 1994 and Issue 2 from 1985
  Album Network   Added June-July 2002
  Band Leaders   Added June 1942 edition.
  Song Hits   Added a new page for Song Hits, which featured hit song lyrics and artist articles. It began in 1937. We now have 77 issues from the 1980s.
Dec 22 Proceedings of the I R E   Added many of our missing 1950's and 1950's issues. They are underlined. We only need two issues to complete those two decades
  Television Quarterly   Added Issue No II from 1988
  Phonograph Record Magazine   Added 18 issues of this 1970's music "fanzine".
Dec 17 Radio Bulletin   Added issues from 1960 to 2003 of this publication from the Netherlands. At this moment, search works but we are working to add issues to page. There are nearly 500 issues!
Dec 14 RCA Catalogs and Manuals   Added brochure for the 250-D Broadcast Transmitter
Added manuals for the BFC B FM Antenna, the BTF 10 F  FM transmitter and BTF 20E1 FM transmitter
  Practical Electrics   Added December 1923
  General Electric Monogram   Added two issues from 1949 and one from 1951 We now have 109 issues of this title.
  Harris Broadcaster   Added September, November and December issues of the Harris Allied Communicator
  Equipment Manuals and Brochures   Added the Delta Common Point bridge from 1979
  RCA Manuals and Catalogs   Added RCA Tubes 1954
Added RCA Tubes 1943
Added Receiving Tube Manual RC 187 1954
Added Radiotron Amateur Transmitting Tubes from 1933
  Harris & Gates
Catalogs and Manuals
  Added Harris Nautel Lightening guide from 1983
Added 1980 Harris AM Phasing brochure.
Added Harris Digit FM Exciter Factbook from 1995
Added Harris guide for "Engineer and PD" for audio processing
Added the 200 Harris MW Transmitter brochure.
Added Gates Catalog 100 from 1974
Added Gates 1966 catalog
Added Gates M5133 Console manual and specifications from 1958
  UK Collection
(Miscellaneous)
  Added the October 2000 issue of Radio Today, the last issue of this magazine.
  Collins Catalogs and Manuals   Added the manual for the 1952 212-G Console
Added Brochures for the 830-1A 10kw FM transmitter from 1963 and for the 212T line of consoles from the mid-60s'
Dec 13  Band Leaders
Magazine
Added "America's Band Leaders" with profiles of all the Big Band orchestra leaders.
  Radio & TV
Fan Magazines
  Added the Spring 1949 "Radio Album" and made the page searchable.
  FCC Documents   Replaced the 1986 FCC Interference Handbook with a better copy.
  Melody Maker   Added January 8 1977
  Music Row   Added November 8 1996
  Ratings Documents   Added Arbitron's 1082 booklet "Radio Today" which covers the scope and reliability of radio ratings.
  Radio's Master   Added a second version on the 1945 catalog and made all the volumes searchable
  Electronic Musician   Added August 2004 and February, March 2003 We now have 418 issues of this magazine.
  Radio Program Syndication
and Software 
  Added 1988 manual for TM's Stereo Rock format
Added the Omnisoft Traffic, Billing and Callout Research brochure from Lew Dickey
  Collins Signal    Added another company magazine, Collins Signal from the manufacturer of broadcast, military, communications and ham radio gear.
Dec 7 Radio and Electronics Added a new page for the New Zealand publication Radio and Electronics, Radio and Electrical Review and Radio, Electronics and Communications. We have issues from 1946 to 1970.
  New Musical Express Added tables of New Musical Express charts from the decades of the 60's, 70's and 80's.
Dec 6 General Electric Monogram   Added January/February 1949 edition.
  Station Booklets and Albums   Added the WBYS Canton, Illinois, 20th anniversary album from 1967
  Radio & TV
Fan Magazines
  Added TV Radio Annual from 1956
  Early Radio Catalogs   Added the 1941 Radiotone Radio-Recorder-PA brochure
Added the Randolph Radio 1927 catalog.
  Tune In   Replaced May 1946 with better copy..
  Network Added 22 issues of this Canadian music magazine. This collection is now searchable.
  Early Radio
Programming
  Added a souvenir program for the National Barn Dance NBC show from WLS 
Added Major Bowes and his Amateurs a listener booklet from (estimate) the late 30's
  L'Onde Électrique Added all issues from 1938
Dec 5 New Musical Express Added 9 issues from 1972
Added 9 issues from 2018
Added one issue each from 1970, 1971 and 1983
Dec 4 Electronic Musician   Added 49 issues from 2019 to 2023. All are searchable.
  Music Technology   Added November 1986
  Modern Era
Collection
  Added an issue of Radio Work Bench, a serviceman's magazine  from April 1 1957
  Wireless Constructor Added May 1934 issue.-
  Radio Life   Added May 5, 1940. This is the earliest issue of this West Coast listener magazine we have.
  Record   Added issues from 1983 and 1984 from this music magazine
  Amateur Radio Forum   Added a new page for this Omaha based Ham Radio journal which began in 1933. We have 3 issues.
  Amateur Wireless Added three issues from 1933
  New Musical Express Added January 7  2012
Added 3 issues from 2005
Added 13 issues from 2006
Added 29 issues from 2009
Added all issues from 2010
We have now added over 500 issues in the last week!  (And we offer 1335 total issues)
Dec 3 Television Digest   Added all weekly issues for 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984 and 1984 along with the annual index for each. Issues provided by the Warren family who published the newsletter from 1961 onwards.
  Radio-Revue Added November and December of 1923 and first four months of 1924
  New Musical Express Added most issues from 2012 and 2011. We now have nearly 1300 issues of this magazine and are working with contributors to fill in the missing years and issues.
  Melody Maker Added almost all issues from February to December of 1941
Dec 1 New Musical Express Added all issues from 2013. We have added about 250 issues of this magazine in the last week.
  Phonograph Record   Added 7 issues of this music magazine begun in 1970 to compete with Rolling Stone and Creem.
Nov 30 Radio-Revue Added issues from 1922 and 1923 of this publication of the Radio-Club de France
Nov 28 New Musical Express Added all issues from 2014
Nov 26 New Musical Express Added nearly all issues from 2015, 2016, 2017. Search function updated, too.
  BBC Radio Times Added the first 7 years of the BBC's listener magazine starting in 1923
Nov 24 Radio & TV
Fan Magazines
  Replaced  the Summer 1948 Radio Album with better copy.
  All Wave Radio   Added the 1937 special edition "Practical Radio Manual"
  Network Added November 1994
  Practical Electrics /
The Experimenter
  Added September 1924 issue 
  Radex   Added "First Edition" from 1927 This was prior to the enhanced regulation of the FRC, and still showed the top of the dial filled with 10, 15 and 50 watt radio stations. 
  Radio Logbooks and Lists   Added the Spring 1928 issue, including an article "About the Federal Radio Commission" which discusses how many very low power (10 to 50 watts are affected by new regulation.
Nov 22 Radio Life   Added February 1 1958 issue
  Telegraph and Telephone Age   Added all issues from 1910 to 1917
  WOW News Tower   Added June 1940
  Radio & TV Fan Magazines   Added TV Radio Annual from 1953
  Early Radio Manuals and Catalogs   Added the instruction manual, service manual as well as a purchase invoice and various ads and articles about this radio which cost more than $150 dollars in 1937 (About $3,700 today)
Added the 1936 Supreme Instruments catalog of test gear.
  TV Technology   Added over 60 issues of this industry magazine "serving the broadcast, cable, production, business and new media markets".  It began in1983. Created new search for this magazine.
  Rock & Folk   Added January 1972 to this French music magazine
  Foundations   Added a new section with just one issue of late 80's and 1990's rock magazine "Foundations". We have bought a set of another 15 issues, arriving soon!
  Australian Collection   Added the 1927 Amalgamated Wireless Radio Guide.
  Music Collection   Added "Country Style" magazine June 1991
  New Zealand Collection Added the Call Book issues from 1985, 1990, 1991 and 2006
  New Musical Express   Added 7 issues from 1975
  Modern Era Collection   Added the 1946 and 1948 Walter Ashe (St Louis) catalogs
Added our first issue of Television Forecast, an industry magazine, from May 1949
  Early Radio Catalogs   Added the Tri-Mo 1933 catalog of radios and parts.
Added 1934, 1935, 1938 and 1939 Walter Ashe (St Louis) catalogs
  Early Radio Collection   Added the 1935 Scott Radio Full Range High Fidelity manual
  Gernsback Publications   Added "Radio Cracy" a spoof of Hugo Gernsback and his inventions.
  FCC Publication   Added Radio Laws of the United States a 1931 compendium of over 20 different radio lwas in effect in 1931
Nov 21 Television Added January 1929 USA edition
Added March, May and December of 1929.
Repaired and updated the search function.
This was a groundbreaking early TV publication.
  Bookshelf: Servicing and Construction   Added Electronic-Technician's-Handbook-of-Time-Savers-Grolle-1974
  Bookshelf: Rider
Technical Books
  Added: Rider Frequency Modulation 1955
Added: Rider Radio Trouble Shooting Guidebook 1954
  Bookshelf: TAB Electronics Books   Added: All Thumbs CD Players TAB 1993
Added: All Thumbs VCRs TAB 1993
Added: Mechanical Devices for the Electronics Experimenter Rorabaugh 1995
  Bookshelf: General Areas of Technology   Added:
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  Bookshelf: Radio Technology   Added: A Beginners Guide to Radio 3rd 1957
Added: A Beginners Guide to Radio 5th 1962
Added: All About FM Antennae Carlini 1963
Added: AM Stereo & TV Stereo Prentiss 8
Added: Frequency Modulation Engineering Tibbs Johnstone 1956
Added: Fundamentals of Radio Ramsey 2nd
Added: IEE Spectrum Management and Engineering Matos 1985
Added: Interference Handbook Nelson 1981
Added: Modulation Theory Black 1953
Added: Modulation Theory Black 1954
Added: Principles of Frequency Modulation Camies 1959
Added: Radio Engineer's Handbook Terman 1943
Added: Reference Data for Radio Engineers 6th 1983
Added: REL This is FM 1946
Added: Selected Papers on Frequency Modulation Klapper 1970
Added: Standard Broadcast Antenna Systems Smith 1969
Added: Technical Television Martin 1972
Added: Television Engineering Part 2 Applications Roberts 1985 II
  Bookshelf: Education   Added: Technique of Television Announcing Lewis 1966 
Added: Television and Radio Announcing  Hyde 1959
Added: The Television Program Stasheff 1962
  Bookshelf: The Enjoyment of Radio   Added  Philco Radio 1928 1942 Ramirez 1993 (Philco radios with beautiful color pictures)
  Bookshelf: Commentary and Opinion   Added Television and Society Skornia 1965
  Bookshelf: Programming   Added: Due to Circumstances Fred Friendly 1967
Added: The Panic Broadcast Clarke 1970 (Story of the Orson Wells' broadcast of !The War of the Worlds" and the ensuing panic.
  Bookshelf: The Business of Broadcasting   Added: ABC's of Modern Radio Salm 1966
Added: Managing Corporate Media Marlow 1989
Added: Television and Management 1977 Bunyam
Added: Television Station Managment Roe 1964
Nov 20 Electronic Musician   Added 4 issues from 1987, 2 from 1988 and 6 from 1986
  Early Radio Catalogs   Added the German radio electronic chain Wilhelm Reuter's 1933 catalog of radio sets and components.
  GO Magazine   Added 78 issues from 1966 to 1968 of this "free" magazine sponsored by local radio stations and distributed at record stores. The added issues are from WMCA in New York and WAKR in Akron, Ohio. We now have 88 issues of this title.
  ACM Awards
Academy of
Country Music
  Added the 43rd Annual ACA awards book.
  Music Collection   Added our fist issue of "Phonograph" from March of 1978. Let us know if this is a good further addition.
  Station Booklets and Albums   Added a later 1920's booklet "Behind the Scenes at WLW".
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Nov 18 Short Wave Magazine Replaced April 1978 PDF with one with pages in correct order.
  Broadcast Program   Added five issues of this West Coast USA magazine. It covered radio sets as well as station schedules.
  L'Onde Électrique Added all issues from 1977, 1978 and 1979
  Radiocast Weekly   Added our first 8 issues of this 1920's radio listener magazine from San Francisco
Nov 17  Equipment Catalogs    Added Eimac 1953 tube catalog
Made entire broadcast catalog collectable searchable, both globally and by the major brands.
Made Gates/Harris, RCA, Collins, GE and Western Electric specifically searchable.
  Fabulous   Added May 4th 1968
Nov 15 Early Radio Technical   Added The Oscillator from January 15 1919. This was a weekly from the U.S. Naval Radio School at Harvard University.
  Music Connection   Added August 2013
  Television (UK) Added five issues of "The Journal of the Television Society" which contained technical papers. Apparently published by the same society that issue the commercial publication which began as "Television" in  1928 but we need confirmation of that information.
Nov 14 Radio News   Added 1933 special edition "Short Wave Handbook".
  Electronic Engineering   Added April to December 1949
Added all issues from 1950
Added all issues from 1957
Added all issues from 1958
Added all issues from 1959
Added all issues from 1960
Added all issues from 1965
Added all issues from 1966
Added all issues from 1967
  Band Leaders
and other Big Band Publications
  Added February and April of 1947
Added the 1946 "Big Book of Swing" dedicated to Glenn Miller. }
Added Radio & Record Stars / Band Leader for June/July |1947
  New Zealand Collection   Added Radio and Electronics Digest 1948
Added Radio and Electronics August 1946 issuse
Added Radio Times October 1932
Added The Radio Log February 1932
  Early Radio Catalogs   Added thee 1940 Midwest Radio catalog
Nov 9 ACM Awards
Academy of
Country Music
  Added the 1997 and 2000 ACM Awards books.
Added 1996, 2009 and 1995 books
Nov 8 Songwriter   Added 19 issues from 1978 to 1981
  International Musician   Added 5 issues from 1971-1973 of this member magazine from the American Federation of Musicians
  Crosley Broadcaster   Added October 15 1929 issue.
  Storer Story   Added two issues of this employee magazine of Storer Broadcasting from 1964
Nov 3 L'Onde Électrique Added 9 issues from 1950
Added all issues from 1931
Added all issues from 1951
Added all issues from 1954
Added all issues from 1980
Added 10 issues from 1955
Added June to December 1968 and that year's index.
  Early Radio Catalogs   Added the 1936 Hammarlund receiver and component catalog.
  Mullard   Added three construction booklets about a 10 watt amplifier, a tape amplifier and tape recorder circuits.
Nov 2 Album Network   Added 31 issues from 1993 and 1994 (actually "re-added" as the listing had been accidentally removed some time ago.)
  L'Onde Électrique Added all of 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1925 and first 6 months of 1963
  File Cabinet
(FCC Filings)
  Added 12 full FCC filings for stations KCTY, WKY, KCMO, KSWS, KWFT, KWKH, KTOK, WFAA and WHOT
  All Star Junior News   Added a 4-page newspaper format brochure for a new radio set using components from some renowned manufacturers like Hammarlund and Belden.
  Bookshelf: History of Radio   Added The Auto Radio Matteson 1987
  Bookshelf: Business of Broadcasting   Added the TAB Book "Radio Advertising How to Sell It" by Robinson TAB 1974
  Bookshelf: Enjoyment of Radio   Added Early Wireless  by Constable 1980
Added Great American Popular Singers 1974 Pleasants
  Bookshelf: Radio Programming   Added Prime Time Religion Melton 1997
Added Monitor Last Great Radio Show Hart 2002
  Bookshelf: Education   Added The Broadcast Century by Hilliard 1992
  Rockpool   Added April 15 1991 issue
  Station Albums   Added the 1946 WMMN station picture album from WMMN in Fairmount, WV.
  BMI Member Magazine   Added "Issue 1" from 1979
  The Street   Added four issues from 1988 and 1989. They are underlined.
  Popular Electronics   Added to the Popular Electronics page 6 special editions that were previously only listed on the "Experimenter Special Edition" page. There are the 1963, 1976 and 1977 Communications Handbooks. Two are1996 and 1997 editi0ons of Poptronics Experimenter and Poptronics Hobbyist handbooks. And one is the 1958 Hi Fi Yearbook..
  ACM Awards
Academy of
Country Music
  Added the ACM Awards programs from 1974, 1975, 1976, 19779, 1980, 1981 and 1982.
Oct 30 Album Network   Added two issues form 1983 of this radio and record industry weekly.
  Songwriter   Added 4 issues from 1981, 1978 and 1976
  Bookshelf: Short Wave   Added Shortwave Listener's Handbook 1994 4th Bennett
Added Shortwave radio Listening Expert
  Early Radio Collection   Added a reprint of The Story of Pye Wireless from 1981
  Network Publications   Added Chrysler's booklet "The Story f Major Bowes" and the CBS network show from 1939
  Rockpool   Added two issues from the 1980's
  Variety Annual Editions   Added the 52nd anniversary edition from 1958
  Tip Sheets and Music Programming Newsletters   Added our first issue of The Pulse from 1986.
  Station Lists and Logbooks   Added the 1930's National Union Radio Guide
  Sound Choice   Added April 1987 issue
  NAB Publications   Added NAB NRBA Program Management  from 1985
Added Fletcher's NAB Profiting from Radio Ratings from 1989
  Network Added Spring 1996 issue
  Music Row   Added January 2001 edition
  NBC Network Radio Shows   Added The Fanny Barbour Memory Book, a fictitious album about the Barbour family from the long running NBC serial drama One Man's Family
  Station Magazines   Added a 1977 issue of "Buddy" from KZEW in Dallas.
  Gavin Report   Added December 11 and December 18 1987 issues
  GE Monogram   Added the 1971 "Campus Monogram".
  Billboard   Added the 1968 supplement "A Gift of Music" from November 9th.
  Tip Sheets and Music Programming Newsletters   Added two issues of Hitmakers from 1983
Oct 29 Zigzag   Added the 1974 special edition book "The Road To Rock".
  ARRL Handbooks   Added the 1928 4th edition of The Radio Amateur's Handbook. We are only missing one edition from 1924 to 1984
  ACM Awards   Added the program of the annual ACM awards for 14 years from 1999 to 2018
  ASCAP Publications   Added the 4th Edition of the ASCAP Biographical Dictionary
  Electrician and Mechanic   Added 21 issues of this early technical magazine published from 1890 to 1913
  Tip Sheets and Music Programming Newsletters   Added 8 issues of Between the Ears from the 70's
Added the only example I have ever found of Bobby Poe's "Pop Music Survey"
Added a copy of The Breneman Review from 1990
Added 4 issues of the Dance Music Report form 1981 to 1990
Added two more issues of Fred
Added "Guide" from Slash Records from 1983
Added "New on the Charts" from 1976
Added 3 issues in one file of Record Research
Added The Hamilton from 1982
Added Warner Brothers "Word of Mouth" from 1983
  Record   Added three issues from 1983 and 1985
Oct 28 Zigzag Added all issues from 1969 to 1976 of this UK rock music magazine
  Canadian Musician Added August 1994 issue.
  Songwriter   Added June 1976, August and October 1977, August 1979, April 1981 and February 1984 issues.
  FM Magazine   Added March 1941, January 1941 and December 1940. We are now only missing 2 issues of the original magazine from Milton Sleeper.
  BMI Publications   Added the 1990 "BMI 50th Anniversary" commemorative book.
  NOTE
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  We are building a new "main computer" using a Ryzen Threadrippper 9965, Gen5 SSDs and a fast video card. That will make work go faster and better, but the build and installation of software is eating all my time. So there will be limited additions to the site for a few days more.
Oct 19 New Musical Express Added the 1978 special edition "New Musical Express Book of Modern Music" with artist profiles.
Corrected March 3 1979 issue link.
Added the "1974 Hot Rock Guide" published late in 1973.
  Audio Record   Added the 1954, 1955, 1956 and 1957 Audio Record Directory issues.
  L'Onde Électrique   Added all issues from 1949
  CED Magazine   Added 13 issues of CED, a broadband magazine from 2003 to around 2019.
  Commercial Radio
(Formerly "CQ")
  Added 6 issues from 1931 to 1933. This was a magazine for radio technicians in all fields, but not related to the much later "CQ" magazine for radio amateurs or "hams"
Oct 18 New Musical Express Added all issues from 1979. There are now 916 issues and specials of this magazine. All are searchable
Added all 1981 issues. Coming later today: most of 1980.
Added most 1980 issues. A sequence from late April to early June is missing.
  Hobbies Added 13 new issues from 1952 and replaced all others with better scans.
Added 14 issues from 1957 and replaced most others with better scans.
Added 14 issues in 1958
Added 11 issues in 1959
  L'Onde Électrique   Added our first year, 1934, of over 40 years remaining to scan. This was a French technical journal running from 1922 to 1995
  Sounds Added all issues from 1986
  Philco Serviceman   Added 15 issues from 1953 and 1954
  Philco Merchandiser   Added 6 issues from 1953 and 1954
  Network Added the July-August 1994 of this Canadian music magazine.
  Radio Network Publications   Added a collection of NBC's One Man's Family booklets and brochures; even a cookbook.
Added the Breakfast Club Blue Network NBC Brochure Undated WW II era
  Radio & TV Fan Magazines   Added "Who's Who in TV" number 18 from 1968.
Oct 17 General Electric
Collection
  Added the 1981 book "A century of Progress: The General Electric Story".
  Songwriter   Added May 1980 and October 1975
  Radio Station Books   Added WYXIE Wonderland by Osgood from 1981, the story of WXYZ in Detroit which originated, among others, The Lone Ranger network show.
  Station Picture Albums   Added the 1952 album from WCOM in Parkersburg, WV.
  Radio World   Added March 1 2023
  Hits   Added February 26 1999. This is a rare one with a Madonna cover.
Oct 16 AFTRA-SAG   Added AFTRA member magazine from Fall-Winter 2002
  General Electric Monogram   Added 22 issues between 1967 and 1971 This was the employee journal of General Electric.
  ASCAP Publications   Added 5 more volumes of the ASCAP Copyright Symposium. These were published annually starting in 1950 and contained the winning dissertations about copyrights submitted each year. I am trying to find more of these, as they seem to be unavailable anywhere else.
  General Electric Collection   Added a new page for this website with 31 publications from General Electric, most from the 1940's. A number deal with the "new" FM band as well as articles and brochures about tubes, transmitters and technical planning for new stations.
  General Electric Catalogs & Manuals   Added a number of product sheets and data sheets for FM antennas from 1941 to 1944
  New Musical Express Added all of 1978 issues.
Oct 15 New Musical Express   Added October to December and missing June and July issues from 1977.
Oct 14 New Musical Express Added 37 issues from 1977. Many more to come!
Oct 8 ASCAP Publications   Added the 7th Volume of the Copyright Law Symposium
  General Electric Monogram   Added the December 1923 issue, our earliest issue yet!
Oct 6 Modern Era Collection Added the General Electric HI Fi Components brochure, including the widely use VR22 stereo  cartridge introduced in 1959..
Added the Federal Telephone and Radio Corp tube brochure from 1946
´´´´ Harris AM-FM "Profile"   Added the Harris profile of KBYE and KFJL in Oklahoma City.
  The Tape Recorder Restored the missing page for The Tape Recorder (not the same as "Tape Recorder") which had been confused with other titles. Collection is believed to be complete from 1959 to 1970.
  Spark Gap Times   Added 9 issues from the 1960's. New additions are underlined.
  Early Radio Catalogs and Brochures   Added the Hughes-Peters Electric 1937 Radio Buying Guide
Added a collection of Atwater Kent instruction sheets from 1922
Added Atwater Kent Tuner Instruction sheets from 1922
  Gernsback Collection   Added the 1912 "Wireless Course" published by Hugo Gernsback's "The Electro Importing Company" and edited by his brother, Sidney.
  Earl y Radio
Miscellaneous
  Added a collection of copies of Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company's "Circulars" from the Pacific Coast Division from 1920.
  Broadcast Engineering Collection   Added the July 1972 issue of International Broadcast Engineer.
  Bookshelf: Biography   Added Father Coghlin Shepherd of the Air 1933
  Bookshelf: The Business of Broadcasting   Added Advertising And Business Side of Radio Midgley 1948
  Bookshelf: Opinion & Commentary   Added Broadcasting the Critical Challenge Steinberg 1974
Bookshelf: Education & Training Added Handbook of Radio Writing Barnou 1950
Added Television Techniques Bettinger 1947
  Bookshelf: Regulation and Legal Added Public Broadcasting Gibson 1912 1976 Canada 1977
  Bookshelf: History   Added Magic Dials Lowell Thomas 1939
Added The Boy Who Invented TV 2002
Added Documents of Canadian Broadcasting Bird 1988
Added Hello America! Saerchinger 1938
Added Hello America! Saerchinger 1938
Oct 5 Station Magazines Added the 1952 30th Anniversary issue of Mike and Camera, from WGY radio and TV in Schenectady, NY.
Added the February 1966 issue of the WBMD, Baltimore station magazine
  Canadian Musician Added April 1984 edition
  Songwriter   Added a new section for this magazine published between 1975 and 1982 and added 11 issues.
  Electronics   Added four issues from 1959, completing the collection for that year. February 11, February 20, November 13 and December 11.
  Practical Electrics   Added November 1922 issue of this Gernsback publication.
  Modern Era Collection   Added the three volume set of the Trinity Broadcasting Network's 1973-2003 20th Anniversary publication. This set has over 1,800 pages.
Added the 1946 edition of the Allied Radio catalog illustrating the first generation of Post-WW II electronics including radios, record players and test equipment.
  Amazing Stories   Added three  issues of Hugo Gernsback's Science Fiction magazine from 1933 and 1930. While this is not about radio, the publications illustrate the imagination of Gernsback.
  The Experimenter   Added November 1922 issue of Practical Electrics, the Gernsback magazine that became The Experimenter in 1924
  UK Collection Added a single issue of Television Broadcast, an Industry trade magazine from May 1984
  Early Radio Catalogs and Brochures   Added the Kodel brochure "Radio for Every Purpose" showing all their models and accessories.
  Radio TV Experimenter   Added "TV Repair" special edition from Spring 1967
  Radio Dealer   Added the 190 page December 1924 issue full of ads for radios and radio parts.
  Record   Added September 1985 and November 1983
  Radio Life   Added the issue from March 28 1943 featuring the "new" Groucho Marx radio show.
  Fan Radio and TV Album Magazines   Added the "TV Radio Album" fan picture magazine from 1971
  Station Albums and Brochures   Added a "mini" brochure from KFBI in Abilene, KS from the 1930's
Added a WHA Madison, WI Booklet for May 1969 Anniversary celebration. "The oldest station in the Nation"
Added WEKZ Monroe, WI "Family Radio Album" from 1993
Oct 4 Billboard Airplay Monitor   Added Airplay Monitor for June 24 2005
Oct 2 Station Books   Added the 1981 "WYXIE Wonder Land - An Unauthorized Diary of WXYZ Detroit" by Dick Osgood
Added "The History of Broadcasting in Maine - The First Fifty Years" by Thompson
Added KGNC Amarillo 30th Anniversary Booklet 1922-1952
Added "The First 50 Years of University of Wisconsin Broadcasting WHA" 1919-1969
Added "WOSU A Century of Service" Columbus, OH.
Added "XERA: Mexico's Famous Border Blaster" Rasmussen 1999
  Broadcast Sound   Added the July / August 1984 edition of this UK broadcast engineering magazine.
  Early Radio Miscellaneous   Added the Pacific Radio Expo 4th annual exhibition program from 1927. This includes many features about radio stations and personalities from San Francisco.
  Early  Radio Technical   Added the Amalgamated Wireless Valve (Australia) booklet "The Receiving  Tube Story" about development of tubes.
  Modern Era Collection   Added the 2003 Digital Radio Mondiale booklet describing the technology and applications of DRM.
  Ratings Publications & Papers   Added an early 1990's collection of pro9motional materials from Birch Scarborough.
  ASCAP Publications   Added the 1948 edition of The ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, Authors & Publishers.
Sep 18 Station Albums and Brochures Added the 2002 "Scrapbook" from WGNC, Gastonia, NC. This is collection and clippings about the station dating back to 1939 when the station began.
  Early Radio Collection   Added a small brochure by Dr. Lee deForest called Radio Simplified from 1929
  Early Radio Catalogs and Brochures   Added the 1942 brochure for the Wilcox-Gay Recordio, a recorder, record player and radio all in one.
  Early Radio Hobbyist   Added  the Tobe booklet "Radio Noises and Their Cures" from 1932
  Network Added an issue from 1990 and two from 1992 of this Canadian music industry magazine.
  CMJ New Music   Added November 1999
  Billboard   Added the 1987-88 edition of "Billboard Talent and Touring Directory"
Spark-Gap Times Added 26 issues from the 1960's of "Spark Gap Times" from the "Old Old Timers Radio Club".
  National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)   Added: Fair Market Value of Radio Stations by Fratrik from 1990 (2nd Edition)
Added: Issues-in-Broadcast-Regulation-Le-Duc-1974 from Broadcast Education Association
Added: MegaRate$ How to Get Top Dollar for Your Radio Spots
Added: National Radio Systems Committee report on AM station bandwidth and audio.
Sep 14 Time Magazine
Early Radio Magazines
  Added issue from March 16 1938 featuring FCC Chairman McNinch in an extensive interview.
  NAB Publications   Added the 1991 book "Making More Money: $elling Radio Advertising Without Numbers by Herweg, Godfrey and Ashley.
Station Books and Large Presentations Added Volume one of the 1950 "History of WGAR" Cleveland, Ohio. This was edited, apparently, as part of a license review by the FCC.
Added Davison's "WHO A Brief History"
Added McQueen's "WWJ Jesuit and a Dream" from 1955
Added "WWJ The Complete Story"
  Radio Logbooks and Station Lists   Added the IRCA 2025-2026 Mexican Station Logbook.
  Early Radio Catalogs   Added three Atwater Kent brochures displaying their different radio models from 1928 and 1929
Added a 1929 Allied catalog featuring new radio sets.
Sep 13 NAB Engineering Handbooks   Added the 3rd edition from 1945 and the 6th and 7th editions from the '90's and made all editions searchable.
Proceedings of the IRE Added January through April issues from 1962.
  Modern Era Collection   Added one edition of Breneman's Magazine4, the publication of The Breakfast in Hollywood's host. September 1948
  Fabulous! Added June 12, 1965
  Record   Added May 1982, September 1983, January, February, May, June  July, 1984, August 1985
  Record Mirror Added May 4 1998 (better copy) and five issues from 1979
  Network Added February-March 1995 and September-October 1992
  International Musician   Added the May 1972 issue from the "musician's union".
  Rockpile   Added October 1997
  ASCAP   Added June 1967 and October 1969 of ASCAP Today.
  Hits   Added September 28 1987
  Electronic Musician   Added July 1990
  Music Collection   Added the 1970 Country Music Who's Who compilation
Added the 4 Volume 1970 Pictorial History of Country Music
Aug 29 Bookshelf: Early Technology   Added all four volumes of the Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy from 1919 as published by the American School of Correspondence
Added the Wireless Constructors Encyclopedia from the editor of Practical Wireless
Added Admiralty Handbook of Wireless Telegraphy VOL I, Magnetism & Electricity 1938
Added Admiralty Handbook of Wireless Telegraphy VOL II, Wireless Telegraphy Theory 1938
Added FM An Introduction Rider 1940
Added Modern Radio Operation Smith 1922
Added Radio Receivers and Servicing Aceves 1930
Added Television Sheldon Grisewood 1929
Added Hawkins Electrical Guide 7 1915
Added Hawkins Electrical Guide No 8 1917
  National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)   Added Audience Research" from 1991 and "Call Out Research" from 1982
  Network (Canada)   Added a new section for "Network", a Canadian radio and music magazine from the 80's and 90's
  Practical Electrics   Added April 1923 issue of this early Hugo Gernsback publication.
  Billboard   Added August 4 and September 22 issues from 1934
Aug 27 Bookshelf: History of Broadcasting   Added the Museum of Radio and Television's 1991 decade-by-decade highlights of broadcasting in the United States.
  Early Radio Catalogs   Added Radio Trading Company New York City Catalog #24 from 1932
  Indiana Historical Radio Society   Added issues of the society bulletin from 1974, 1975, 1976, 1981 and 2005.
  SBE Conference Proceedings   Added the 1987 Society of Broadcast Engineers and Broadcast Engineering magazine conference proceedings.
  The File Cabinet
Filings and FCC issues.
  Added Earl Cullum's filing about using a transmitter site for an early UHF TV station in Shreveport in 1953
Added Earl Cullum's comments to the FCC about UHF television in 1954.
Aug 24 Billboard   Replaced the totally blank September 7 1991 issue with a new and complete scan.
  The File Cabinet   Added a collection of engineering documents from WKZO in Kalamazoo, MI, from 1936 to the 1980's. Includes very detailed filings for directional system, right down to the brands of capacitors, etc.
  Brill's Content   Added over a dozen issues, We believe this completes the collection, as they did not issue July or December issues and ceased publication in June of 2002.
  Early Radio Magazine Collection   Added 5 more issues from 1924 of the San Francisco Daily News Radio Section. They are between March and July of that year. One issue features a test to see if "thoughts" could be sent by radio!
  Modern Era Collection   Added Radiolandia from December 1968. This is a Spanish language
Mexican entertainment magazine featuring the 38th anniversary of XEW
  Canadian Musician   Added the February 1988 issue.
  Music Views   Added the May 1953 issue of this Capitol Records "hand out" given away at record stores.
  ASCAP   Added the 1976 book "Hit Songs".
  BMI   Added Summer 1970 edition.
  Rockpile   Added September 2000 edition
Aug 18    Early Radio Magazine Collection   Added the May 1925 Life Magazine special "Radio Edition".
Added "The Secret of Distance and Volume in Radio" from the Kodel Radio Corporation, owner of WKRC in Cincinnati.
  Radio Television Weekly   Added the April 4 1966 issue of this consumer electronics magazine aimed at retailers and manufacturers.
  RPM Added a link to a comprehensive article covering the history of RPM.
  Pro Sound   Added February 2014 issue
  Music Magazine Collection   Added an issue of "Network" from June, 1004
  Tempo   Added March 1939 edition.
  Early Radio Magazine Collection   Added 20 issues from 1924 of the San Francisco Daily News Radio Section. They are between March and July of that year. One issue features a test to see if "thoughts" could be sent by radio!
  Fabulous Added June 12 1965 issue
  Electronic Musician    Added December 2017 
  Harris Broadcaster     Added two issues from 1990 
Aug 17  Broadcast Electronics Catalogs   Added a large set of BE catalogs and brochures from the earlier 2000's.
  Harris Broadcaster    Added three issues from 1989 of this Harris / Allied staff publication.
Aug 16   Cornell-Dubiler Capacitor    Added 47 issues from 1940 to 1948
  New Musical Express   Added three issues from January of 1981 
Aug 15  WCFL Radio Magazine   Added the first issue of this station magazine from October of 1927.detailing transmitter move to Downers Grove and power increase to 50,000 watts.
Aug 14 Funkschau   Added over 150 issues between 1946 and 1954.
Aug 12 Funk   Added a new section with 11 issues of "Funk" from 1937 to 1939.
  Bookshelf: RCA   Added the 1963 Interchangeability Directory issue
  Bookshelf: TAB Books   Added the 1970 AM/FM Broadcast Station Planning Guide
  Bookshelf: Early Radio & TV Technology   Added Television Today and Tomorrow by Lee De Forest 1942
  The Record   Added our first issue of The Record, a Canadian music and radio industry magazine from the 80's and 90's
  Station Albums and Booklets   Added a booklet from WJNO "The Palm Beaches" Florida
Added the WJTO Springfield, MO "Good Morning" Station profile booklet
  Station Books   Added a 1974 doctoral thesis on the history of the University of Florida's WRUF, Gainesville, FL.
  Electronic Musician   Added the January 2022 issue
  Modern Era Collection
(Post WW II)
  Added a Portland Oregon dial card "Your Dial" with stations and program schedules from 1949. This was a fold out card, about a yard wide. We scanned it intact so you can see it the way a user did... about 75 years ago!
  Modern Radio   Added 19 issues from 1931 to 1934. Also added editions #1 and #2 of the Radio Service Man's Pocket Book from 1932 and 1933
Aug 11 Record   Added 17 issues of this earlier 1980s music magazine which, at least initially, had an affiliation with Rolling Stone. We have another 10 issues we found on eBay that will soon be added.
  BIA Investing in Radio & TV
   
  Tempo   Added March 1939 and moved 4 issues from the "Assorted" page to this new one.
  Music Miscellaneous   Added two 1947 issues
  Music Collection   Added 1967 Go Pop Annual for 1968. This appears to be the only year this was published.
  Proceedings of the IRE   Added January and February of 1954
Aug 8 Radioland   Added April 1935
Aug 7 Early Radio Programming   Added a small fold-out brochure promoting the CBS Network's Chesterfield Radio Program. Estimated date of 1937 based on content.
  Sounds Added 14 issues from the 1980's. They are underlined.
  Bookshelf: Biography   Added Baird of Television Tiltman 1974
Added Ruby in the Rough Ruby 1976
  Bookshelf: Individual Station History   Added The 50000 Watt Broadcast (Stanley Hubbard) McGovern 1996
Added  Broadcasting the Local News KDKA Hinds 1995
  Bookshelf: Radio Pr0ogramming   Added La Radio Actual Ramiro Garza 1992
Added Radio Programming in Action Taylor 1967
  Bookshelf: Regulation   Added Tune In Tune Out Weiss 1981
Added Canadian Broadcast Regulatory
  Bookshelf: Education   Added Studio and Microphone Stone 1960
Added Moments of Truth 5th DuPont 1975

Added Rich News Poor News Barrett 1978
Added Survey of Broadcast Journalism 1969 1970 Barrett
  Bookshelf: News   Added Hard News Women in Broadcasting Hosley 87
  Bookshelf: Commentary   Added Hablemos De...Ramiro Garza 1990 (México)
Added Politics of Broadcasting 1971 to 72 Barrett
  Bookshelf: History   Added Hitler's Airwaves Bergmeier Lotz 1997
  Bookshelf: The Business of Broadcasting   Added To Serve the Public Interest Blakely 1979
Added Electronic Media Sterling 1984
Added Models of Religious Broadcasting
Added Radio Broadcasting Industry Albarran Pitts 2001
Aug 6 Record World   Added June 25 1977
  New Musical Express Added 5 issues from 1982
Added 17 more issues from 1983
Added 2 issues from 1986
Added 13 issues from 1987
Added 3 issues from 1985
Added 1 issue from 1984
  Radio World   Added the March 15 2006 supplement "Multicasting"
  EQ Magazine   Added March-April 1990 issue
  Rockpile   Added August 2003
  Radio Television Life   Added September 28 1957 edition.
  Broadcast Electronics   Collection of 2007 AM & FM transmitter and related equipment brochures
  Pacific Recorders   Added a collection of brochures for consoles and tape equipment from the mid-and-late-1980's
Aug 1 Early Radio Magazines Added five issues of "Modern Radio" from 1931 and 1932
Added Modern Radio Annex from 1932
RF Design Added 12 issues from 1989, 7 from 1990, 6 from 1991 and 5 from 1992
Service Management Added 15 issues from 1953 and 1954, This was one of several magazines for radio, TV and record player repair shops from the 1930's into the 1960's.
Television Radio Age Added May 9 1977 which commemorated 25 years of ABC TV.
Hits Added May 14 1999 and November 16 2001
Rocklpile Added January/February 2005
  Radio Logbooks / Station Lists   Added the Keller's Radio Callbook from Spring 1931
  Record World   Added June 1979 Record World Buyers Guide, a "give away" for record stores
Added full copy of Feb 22, 1965 issue and full copy of March 13 1976
  The Experimenter
Practical Electrics
  Added Practical Electrics from February 1924
Music Views Added the January 1958 issue of this promotional magazine from Capitol Records.
Radio Television Life Added two issues from 1957 and one from 1958
Music Collection Added a single issue of "The Beat" from May 4 1968
Melody Maker Added February 26 1977 and December 3 1977
New Musical Express Added 17 issue from 1983
Music Week Added 7 issues from 1982
Modern Electrics Added December 1913
  International Musician and Recording World   Added the May 1978 issue
Billboard Replaced February 26 1972 with complete copy.
Replaced November 18 1967 with a complete copy.
Note: many issues of music magazines we find from resellers have had the charts removed or articles cut out. We continually look for full copies.
Elementary Electronics Added January 2, 1970
Modern Era Collection
(Post WW II)
Added the "Giant Picture Collection" of 2,000 tiny photos of radio, TV and Movie stars from 1952
Cash Box Replaced February 27 1965 with complete issue
Replaced September 2 1972 with complete issue
Replaced November 18 1967 with complete issue}
  ASCAP   Added the 1995 Membership packet for new members affiliated with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Jul 30 Speaker Builder   After receiving a legal notice from the publisher, audioXpress, we have removed this publication and its full search capabilities.
Jul 27 Record   Started a page for "Record" the Canadian music industry magazine that ran from 1981 to 1999.
Jul 23 California Historical Radio Society   Click on this to see all the amazing things the CHRS is auctioning this month to raise money for their radio and TV historical preservation efforts.
Jul 19 International Musician   Added August 1969 of the magazine of the American Federation of Municians
  Music Vendor   Added 23 issues from 1958 and 1960. This doubles the size of our Music Vendor library. Music Vendor became Record World in 1964.
  Music Row   Added December 2002
  Rockpile   Added June 1998
  The Street   Added June 1990
  Radio Life
TV / Radio Life
  Added October 30 1949, November 3 1950, March 9 1957 and June 7 1958
Jul 18 Goldmine   We have removed "Goldmine" from our available publications: Linda Matlow, the photographer of one picture in one issue of the magazine filed a complaint with our ISP so, to avoid any further problems we have removed all issues of Goldmine and will not be completing the collection and have incinerated all additional issues that we had intended to scan.
Jul 14 Billboard   Added four issues from 1935; October 12 and October 26  November  9 and November 16,
  Record World   Added August 7 1976
  Modern Era Collection   Added Popular Mechanics' "All About TeleVision" introduction to the "new" medium from 1952
  BMI Member Magazines   Added Issues #1 from 1982 of this publication for Authors, Composers and Publishers, members of BMI for rights collections.
  Miscellaneous Music Publications   Added a single 1961 edition of the Mid Atlantic Record Review, a music jobber's magazine.
Jul 13 RPM Added February 29 1981 to this Canadian music industry magazine.
  Electronics   Added August 1 1958 (by correcting an omission)
Jul 12 International Musician & Recording World   Added December 1979
  Record World   Added July 1979 "Buyer's Guide" which was a version of Record World given free at record stores to promote sales.
Jul 9 Radio Ink
Pulse of Radio
  Added four issues of The Pulse of Radio from 1989 and one from 1990. We got a new book scanner and are scanning the whole publisher's collection of Radio Ink and its predecessor, The Pulse of Radio. Enjoy!
  RCA Equipment Catalogs and Manuals   Added the manual for the RCA Broadcast Frequency Monitor 311-AB.
  Modern Era Collection   Added the 1979 edition of Journal of Popular Culture featuring an article entitled: In Depth: Radio
  Bookshelf: Bernards Added #135 "Dry Battery Portable Radios"
Jul 7 Why no new adds?   We have spent over 100 hours in the last 10 days reformatting our 900+ pages to conform with Google Chrome's changed interpretation of some older standards. In the process, we found many bad links, some missing pages and other mistakes. We are fixing them all.

If you see anything wrong o n the site, click  here and report it. Most of the mechanics of the site are done by one person, and I make mistakes. Help me fix them!
  Walrus   An example of how a site user can help "big time". John H let me know that I did indeed have the January 29, 1979 issue of "Walrus" but it was missing from the Walrus page on the site. I made a quick link and now that issue is available, all thanks to John!
We Welcome Your Contribution of Missing Issues or Additional Titles, Specials and Books.
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