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Dec 19 Music Miscellaneous Collection   Added the CIC, Concert Industry Consortium, 1997 and 2008 Yearbook issues.
  General Radio Corporation   Added catalogs from 1968, 1973, 1978
Added A History of the General Radio Corporation by Thiessen from 1965
Added "General Radio An Engineer's Company"
Added "Eyes for Industry" booklet.
Added Plant Noise & Hearing Test
Added Measurement of Vibration
Added Handbook of Noise Measurement
Added Handbook of High Speed Photograophy
Added A Handbook of Coaxial Microwave Measurement
Added A Primer of Noise Measurement
Added Introduction-to-In-Circuit-Testing
Added The.GRand Experiment
Added A-Guide-to-Tympanometry
Added Making-Measurements-with-C21-Frequency-Standard
Added a section for the "Bulletins"
  Equipment Catalogs & Manuals   Added 1967 CBS Laboratories Audimax III Brochure
Added B&K Precision Test Equipment 1975 catalog
Added the 1990 Broadcast Electronics 1990 5400-5500C Cart Machine manual
Added two Bext transmitter brochures from the 1990's.
Added the Burk ARC 16 Remote Control System brochure
Added the Dorrough Discriminate Audio Processor manual from 1982
Added the Dorrough Discriminator AGC Peak Limiter 310 from 1978
Added Continental 802A FM Exciter from 1985
Added Continental 318C 100 kw MW transmitter data sheet
Added Continental Broadcast Equipment catalog from 1981
Added a set of EICO instrument manuals from the earlier 50's
Added the ERI basic FM antenna manual. Undated.
Added CRL FM-2 Processor brochure and manual from 1977
Added CRL SP 800 Stereo Preparation & Modulation Processor manual from 1981
Added the 1990 Fidelipac Tape Products catalog.
Added the Ferrograph Logic Seven Manual, the RTS2 Test Set, and the Series 77 Brochure from 1977 and the Logic 7 Maintenance Manual
Added the Fostex G16C Service Manual from 1990
  Equipment Catalogs & Manuals
2nd Group
  Added: Hammarlund HQ-180 brochure. This was the "top of the line" communications receiver of the 1960's. We also have the manual for this radio.
Added 1960 General Radio 1606-A RF Bridge
Added instructions for the General Radio 736-A Wave Analyzer
Added Orban Optimod FM 8000 A Manual from 1976
Added Orban AM 9100 AM Optimod RET 041 Retrofit manual
Added Optimod 9100-A manual from 1985
Added Nortronics 1976 Head Replacement Guide and the 6th Edition of the same.
Added: Thordarson Transformer comparison Chart
Added: Thordarson Sound Amplifier manual 1934
Added: Thordarson 1934 Transmitter Guide
Added: Thordarson 1935 Catalog
Added: Thordarson 1935 Serviceman's Guide
Added: Thordarson 1937 Radio Servicing Guide
Added: Thordarson 1937 Sound Amplifier Guide
Added: Thordarson 1928 Transformers guide. 
Added: Revox A50 & A76 Tuner and Amp manual
Added: Revox A-76 Manual
Added: IGM Automation with price quotes
Added 1988 IGM Automation brochures with price quotes.
Added: 1983 Wilkinson AM & FM Transmitter brochures
Added Broadcast Audio Mixers catalog from 1982
Added 3M Delta Series I II III and IV catalog
Added: Undated Crown Tape Recorders catalog and brochure.
Added 1957 Gerard Model 301 Transcription Motor manual
Added Ramco DC-5M and DC-8M console manuals
Added: 1981 Sabtronics test gear catalog
Added: Standard Electronics 250 watt FM Transmitter
Added: Standard Electronics Type 938 FM 5kw Amplifier
Added: Tenaflex Systems FM Antennas brochure. Undated.
Added: Varian 816-R 3B FM transmitter and Exciter manual
Added: Telos NAB 2017 Brochure
Added: Telos catalog 2013
  Catalogs: RCA   Added 1946 Grounded Grid Power Amplifiers booklet by Spritzer
  Catalogs: General Electric   Added 1956 GE radio Equipment for Broadcasting: Amplifiers
Added 1941 How to Plan and FM Station from GE
Added: 1952 General Electric Electronic Tubes Dealer Portfolio
Added: 1952 Test Equipment Brochures
Added: 1948 Transcription Arm, EQ and Amp
Added: 1975 Replacement Semiconductor Guide
Added: 1937 Plunger Relays
  Catalogs & Manuals:
Collins
  Added the 820.D 1kw AM transmitter manual
Added the early 60's General Electric Audio: Studio and Portable equipment catalog.
  Gates & Harris Catalogs and Manuals   Added the 1965 addenda sheet for the Vanguard I 1kw AM transmitter.
Added the 1960's FM Stereo Proof of Performance manual
Added a brochure for "The Complete 250 watt Radio Station"
Added the 1985 Harris "Broadcast Equipment Catalog"
  Catalogs And Manuals
Retailers and Distributors
  Added BSW West 1988 flyer, 1996 and 2024 catalogs, Lowe Electronics 1988 catalog and Broadcaster's General Store 1997 catalog
Dec 15 Modern Electrics Added August September October of 1911 and January 1912. This is a significant early "radio" publication; "Modern Electrics was a technical magazine for the amateur radio and electrical experimenter. It was created by Hugo Gernsback and began publication in April 1908"
  Modern Era Collection   Added Standing Wave Ratios in the FM Band from Gates and dated 1948
  Music Collection   Added two issues of "M.I. Musician's Industry" from December 1980 and July 1981
  High Fidelity Trade News   Added December 1979, September 1979 and March 1983
  NAB Proceedings   Added the Engineering Proceedings of the 25th annual convention of the NAB in 1947
  The Listener In Added December 11, 1928 issue
  Hi Fidelity Collection   Added the 1954 book "High Fidelity Thrilling New Sounds" introduction to Hi-Fi audio.
  Wireless World
Publications
Replaced the four-volume Television Engineering set with new scans.
  IRE Proceedings   Added the 1955 Convention Record: Electron Devices and Parts
  UK Miscellaneous Added an undated Marconi Valves brochure with pictures and tech specification of the line of consumer valves.
  Radio Life   Added October 2, 1949 and December 19, 1948. This was a 1940's and 1950's program guide to radio (and later radio and TV) for southern California. But it includes many articles about national radio and TV artists based in LA.
  Electronic Musician & Polyphony   Merged "Polyphony" (the predecessor to "Electronic Musician") in a single page and expanded the search function to include both titles.
  Radio's Master
Catalogs
  Added the 1939 edition "Radio's Master Encyclopedia" listing "all" parts, components and items from the electronics industry. We now have 30 of the 26 annual catalogs issued from 1935 to 1970
  Radio Merchandising   Replaced the August 1928 copy with a new scan which has covers and no missing pages.
  Radio Logs and Station Lists Added the 1934 Popular Wireless Radio Atlas and Wavelength Guide. This is one of the very few "logbooks" from Europe we have found. (Also listed in the Popular Wireless page)
  Early Radio Collection   Added two files with collections of the New York Herald / Herald Tribune radio supplements from 1923 through 1926.
Added "Some Facts YouuShould Know About the World", a booklet focused on short wave radio listening from the 1930's (undated)
  Music: Miscellaneous   Added the 1945 and 1946 editions of the "Record Retailing Yearbook".
  Early Radio Limited Run or Very Rare Magazines   Added the second edition from 1926 of "Custombilt Radio", a set builder magazine.
Sencore Catalogs Added catalogs from 1973, 1966 and 1967
  Hi-Fidelity Trade News   Added the January 1966 issue
  Fabulous Added the June 18 1966 issue
  Sencore News   Added 27 issues of "Sencore News" between 1985 and 1998.
  Electronic Design   Added 12 issues from 1998. We have over 100 more issues ready for scanning as we try to catch up!
  Bookshelf: Radio Station Books   Added the 1964 doctoral dissertation "The Nation's Station", a three part book about WLW in Cincinnati.
Added Valley Voices A history of radio stations in NE Illinois and NW Indiana Ghrist 1992
  Graybar Catalogs   Added the 1947 Telephone Supplies catalog 11-S.
  Station Albums and Booklets   Added WASK Ten Happy Years in Lafayette 1952 Anniversary booklet from WASK AM/FM/TV
Collins Catalogs Added the 1960 Broadcast Consoles catalog.
Dec 8 General Electric Catalogs Brochures and Manuals Added the early 1960's General Electric "Hi Fi Components" catalog which includes the full line of VR II cartridges and stylus options.
Added the 1970 GE Technical Data Companion: formulas and tables of use to engineers.
  RCA and Victor Manuals and Catalogs   Added the undated "Victor Technical Purpose Records for Talking Machines. This is a listing of test records for early phonograph devices.
Added the RCA booklet about the Hi Fidelity APEX 100-F transmitter from 1938 (Hi Fidelity on High Frequency band)
  Radio Station Promotional Booklets   Added a 1960's brochure called "WLW Farm" detailing the station's operating farm, "Everybody's Farm" which was an operating farm run by station staff to support its farm programming.
Added article "Early Days of Talk Radio: WJAG Norfolk Nebraska"
  Network Albums and Booklets   Added the 1952 annual report to share holders for 1952, the year prior to merger with ABC radio and television.
Dec 5 ASCAP Member Magazines   Added Fall 1988 "AASCAP in Action" and "ASCAP Today" from Spring 1978.
  Rockpile   Added March 1997 issue.
  Sound on Sound (New Section) Added issues from 1998, 2002, 2006, 2008  We have over 100 issues more to add in coming weeks.
  Early Radio Collection
Magazines
  Added Radio Jobber News'1939 November issue of this trade journal for radio equipment dealers
  Radio Industries   Added February 1933 of this magazine which called itself The Radio Manufacturer's Monthly..
  Pollstar   Added additional issues. They are underlined..
  Radio Logs and Station Lists   Added the 1936 RCA Victor Tubes' "Radio Travel Log"
  Sencore News   Added a batch of "Sencore News" which are undated but appear to be from earlier 1970s.
  RCA Books and Directories   Added the 1941 RCA Transmitter & Special Tubes catalog and specifications from 1941
  Electronic Design   Added April 1997 issue
  Bookshelf: Coyne Electrical School   Added: Coyne Automotive Electricity from 1943 
Added: Coyne Direct Current Power & Machines 1943
Added: Coyne Reference Set - Simplified Practical Electricity 1943 
  Radio Journal   Added 14 issues from the 1933, 1934 and 1935
  High Fidelity Trade News   Added 10 issues from 1980 to 1983
  BMI Magazine   Added Issue Two from 1986 (BMI editions were numbered from one to four in each year.)
  Electronic Musician   Added 46 total issues from 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010. 2012, 2014
Dec 1 Electronic Musician   Added all 24 issues from 2006 and 2007
  Radio Amateur News   Added May and July 1937
  Modern Era Collection   Added an undated brochure from the Utility Tower Company. Many pictures of tower construction and installation.
  Mix   Added all issues from 2015 and filled all missing positions from 2002 to 2004
  Radio Craft   Added the 1937 Radio Reference Manual (Look for the Radio Craft subsection)
  Modern Electrics   Added January, March, April, September and July 1911 of this early Hugo Gernsback magazine
  Electronics World   Added better scan of the 1961 Audio Yearbook.
Added the 1958 Hi-Fi Annual and Audio Handbook.
  Australian Miscellaneous Collection   Added 16 books, booklets and catalogs from Australia.
  SAMS Books   Added 1971, 1978 and 1988 SAMS book catalogs.
Nov 25 Pollstar   Added over 100 issues. We still have another 20 or so to scan and add from a large purchase we made this month after several site users requested that this magazine be added to the collection.
we also updated the search so that all issues are already searchable. 
  Microwave Journal   Added July  1965
  Early Radio Catalogs   Added the Philco 1937 "Radio Parts Catalog" of radio parts.
Nov 23 Pollstar   Added a new page with over 50 issues of Pollster, the venue and live event weekly magazine beginning in 1981.
  Philco Serviceman   Added the 1940 Philco RMS Yearbook with latest service diagrams and schematics.
  Rockpool   Added August 1990 and October 1990
  Rockpile   Added a new page for this rock music magazine begun in 1995 and which ended 12 years later. First two issues are listed now.
  UK Miscellaneous Added the Wireless & Electrical Trader Year Book for 1958
  Modern Era Catalogs   Added the 1956 catalog from World Radio Laboratories from Council Bluffs, Iowa.
  Miscellaneous Music Publications   Added the Country Music Association 1993-1994 "Country Radio Station List"
  Proceedings of the IRE   Replaced July 1960 with better copy.
  Microwave Journal   Added November 1986 edition
  Album Network   Added 22 issues from 1993 and 1994
  Canadian Musician Added April 1997
  Network 40   Added September 3, 1993 issue
  Electronic Musician   Added all 12 issues from 2011 and August, 2001
  Fabulous Added two issues from April and May 1964
  Early Radio Collection:
Catalogs
  Added the Bruaun's Radio Fall 1926-Winter 1927 catalog and "wholesale price guide".
  Brill's Content   Added 10 additional issues from 1998, 1999 and 2000 of this "information age" magazine.
  EQ Magazine   Added 16 issues. All are underlined for easy location of the new additions.
  Radio Amateur News   Added 5 issues of The Radio Amateur News, a Los Angeles, California based ham radio magazine beginning in April of 1937
  Modern Electrics   Added April 1910 issue of this early Hugo Gernsback magazine.
Nov 22 Station Magazines   Added the WCFL "Quarterly Magazine" from the Voice of Farmer and Labor in Chicago
Summer 1929
Nov 21 Hits   Added 34 issues from 1988 to 2004
Nov 20 FCC and Regulation   Added The Story of FCC v Pacifica Foundation Samaha 2010
  UK Collection   Added the December11 1929 issue of The Listener In, the successor to Popular Radio
  International Musician & Recording World   Added 11 issues from 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1989. 1991
Nov 13 UK Collection   Added Sound Sensation Scotland Radio Scotland booklet from this later 1960's "pirate"
Added the later 40's World Radio and Television Annual Jubilee Issue-1946
  RCA Collection   Added the RCA Planning Guide for AM FM Radio Stations Part 2 Transmitting Plant
Added an issue of RCA Dots and Dashes Amateur Radio Section No 2 1934
Nov 12 Bookshelf: Radio Related Technical   Added: AM Antenna Systems Alexander Crawford
Added: Collins Fundamentals of Single Side Band 1959
Added: Directional Antennas Made Simple Layton 1996

Added: Fields and Waves in Modern Radio Ramo Whinnery 2nd 1962
Added: Handbook of Radio Frequency Interference Volume 2 1962
Added: Television Works Like This 4th Bendick 1959
Added: The Cats Whisker 50 Years Of Wireless Design Hill 1978
  Bookshelf: SAMS Books   Added: SAMS RF Circuit Design Bowick 1982
  Bookshelf: ARRL Books   Added: ARRL Antenna Book Hall 1974 
Added: ARRL Antenna Handbook 1949 
Added: ARRL Beginner's Guide to Amateur Radio 1982 
Added: ARRL Electronics Data Book DeMew 1976 
Added: ARRL Fifty Years of the ARRL 1965
Added: ARRL Hints & Kinks 9 Volumes 
Added: ARRL How to Become a Radio Amateur 1930 
Added: ARRL Mobile Manual 1955
Added: ARRL W1FB's Antenna Notebook 1987
Added: ARRL Weekend Projects Vol. 1 1979 
  Bookshelf; Early Radio Technology   Added: Radio Theory and Operating Loomis 3rd 1927
Added: Radio A Practical Manual Irwin 1923
Added: Modern Radio Handbook 11
Added: Fundamentals of Radio Jordan Nelson Et Al 1942
Added: Crystal Set Projects Xtal Set Society 1997
Added: QTC I Have a Message for You Sparks
Added: Wireless World Foundations of Wireless Sowerby
Added: The Radio Handbook Jones 1936 Pacific Radio
Added: Radio Theory-Simplified-2nd-Editon-Duston-1924
Added: A History of Engineering & Science in the Bell System 1984
Added: Navy Electronics Installation and Maintenance 1965
Added: Refresher Course in Mathematics Camm 1946
Added: Victory Amalgamated Engineering Reference Tables UK
Added: A Pictorial Album of Wireless and Radio Greenwood 1961
Bookshelf: Servicing and Construction Added: Cisin's TV and Radio Tube Substitution Guide 1955, Cisin
Added: Cisin's TV Radio Tube Substitution V.12 Cisin
Added: Do It Yourself TV Repair for Basic Trouble Detection
Added: Electronics Repair Manual Weka 1993
Added: Ericsson Test and Troubleshooting Handbook
Added: Simple Television Repairs Popular Mechanics
Added: Sylvania Servicing  TV Receivers V 2
Added: Thordarson TV Replacement Parts Guide TVPG 10 1977
Added: Thordarson TV Replacement Parts Guide TVPG 15 1983
Added: Transistor Radio Circuitry Mullard 1962
Added: Tube Tester Handy Guide UTestM
Added: TV Field Service Manual with Tube Locations V.3 Alsburg
Added: TV Service Tips TV Sick
Added: TV Servicing With Picture Tube Patterns 1955
Added: Valves and Electron Tubes Mullard AU
  Bookshelf: Radio Shack and Allied Books   Added: Archer Engineer's Handbook Integrated Circuit Applications 1980
Added: Archer Engineer's Handbook Integrated Circuit Applications 1982
Added: Radio Shack TRS 80 Micro Computer Reference Handbook 1978
Added: Radio Shack Basic-Digital Electronics. Evans 1996
  Bookshelf: General Technology   Added: Foundations of Wireless Scroggle 4th
Added: Foundations of Wireless Scroggie 3rd 1942
Added: Foundations of Wireless Scroggie 5th 1951
Added: Foundations of Wireless Scroggie 6th 1958
Added: Foundations of Wireless Scroggie 9th 1975
Added: Basic Mathematics for Electronics Cooke Adams 3rd 1970 
Added: Fundamentals of Radio Gorder 1945 
Added: Navy Electronics Installation and Maintenance 1965 
Added: Radio Engineering Sandeman 1948 
Added: Radio for Amateurs Verron 1922 
Added: Radio Tech Modifications 5B 1990 
Added:  Radio Tech Modifications Number 5A 1992 
Added: Refresher Course in Mathematics Camm 1946  
Added: Sylvania 28 Uses for Junction Transistors 
Added: Television Engineering Amos Birkinshaw Vol. 1 1953  
Added: Television Engineering Amos Vol. 4 1958 
Added: Television Engineering Vol. 2 Amos 1956 
Added: Television Engineering Vol. 3 Amos 
Added: Victory Amalgamated Engineering Reference Tables UK 
  Bookshelf: TAB Books   Added: Secrets of Ham DXing 1981
Nov 11 International Musician & Recording World   Added one issue from 1978, and two each from 1979 and 1980
  Bookshelf: Encyclopedias & Directories   Added: Los Angeles Radio People Volume 2 1997
Added: Encyclopedia of American Television Lackman 2003
  Bookshelf: The Enjoyment of Radio   Added: Jukebox Art  by Pearce 1992  Beautiful photos of interesting jukeboxes.
  Bookshelf: History   Added: On the Air The Story of Radio Floherty 1937
Added: A History of Broadcasting Gustafson Lecture Notes
Added: History of International Broadcasting Wood 1992 UK
  Bookshelf: Biographies and Profiles   Added: On the Radio With Harden and Weaver Meyer 1983
  Bookshelf: Business of Broadcasting   Added: Successful Radio and Television Advertising Seehafer 1951
Added: Tandy's Money Machine Farman 1992
  Bookshelf: Radio Programming   Added: Radio Soundtracks 2nd Edition Pits 1986
  Bookshelf: Education   Added a young person's book "Television Works Like This" by Benedick. 1st Edition 1949
  Bookshelf: Commentary and Opinion   Added Cuban American Radio Wars Frederick 1976
  Audiophile   Added 11 issues from Volume 10, 14 and 15.
  Early Radio Collection   Added the technical manual for the 1946 WLW Cincinnati, Ohio, 500,000 watt RCA transmitter. We have also included this in the "Manuals" section but this is of such broad significance it is being put in the general "Early Radio" category as well.
  Microwave Journal   Added a new section for Microwave Journal with most issues from 1980 to 1981.
Nov 10 Broadcasting & Cable   Added all but one of the large-format NAPTE issues from 1992 to 1999
Added several missing issues from 2000 onwards.
  Broadcast Engineering Collection   Added a new page to this site for magazines and publications that don't warrant (yet) a separate page. This includes magazines where we have only a few issues... but hope to find more.
Includes three issues of "Tower Times".
  FCC Applications
"The File Cabinet"
  Added these to our collection of interesting or unusual FCC applications:
KWKH-Shreveport-1977-License-and-Tech-Exhibits
WFAA-570-Transmitter-Move
WHOT Application-1978-5kw-n-500-w-n
  Early Radio Collection   Added "Cincinnati's Powel Crosley Jr" which is a short profile of the industrialist and radio pioneer.
Added A Pictorial Album of Wireless and Radio 1905 to 1928.
Added the March 2007 issue of the Ohio Historical Society's "Timeline" featuring an article about Powel Crosley Jr,
Added Thirty-Year Review of the General Electric Company 1892-1922
Added sheet music for "Mr Radio Man" from 1923
Added The Eminent Years of Powel Crosley Jr 1921-1940 From the AWA Review 2003
  Audio Collection   Added a single Spring 1986 issue of Sound Choice magazine.
Added two issues of Keyboard magazine, April 1991 and August 1993.
  Radio Broadcast   Added Radio Broadcast Magazine's "190 Radio Data Sheets" from 1928. Information on components and basic circuits.
Nov 9 Electronic Musician   Added 11 more issues. They are underlined.
  Music Business   Added the May 22 1965 issue.
  IRE Audio Proceedings   Added the July 1952 issue.
  Radio Logbooks and Station Lists   Added the 1939 Cunningham Radio Travel Log, including international short wave.
Added the 1936 Crosley All Wave Radio Log with maps.
  International Musician & Recording World   Added three issues, one each from 1978, 1979 and 1983
  Hits   Added 55 issues from 1991 to 2003
  Early Radio Magazines   Added the Radio Number" issue of Life Magazine from September 1927 and November of 1926
  Canadian Musician   Added December 1983
  Station Albums and Booklets   Added the 1938 WTIC, Hartford, CT. "Personalities Signing On" booklet
Added the 1951 WLBR Lebanon, PA 5th anniversary booklet from 1951
Added the 1940 WWVA Wheeling WV 2nd Annual Good Will Tour booklet
  Short Wave & Television
(Gernsback)
  Added a Short Wave and Television booklet, ""Short Wave Guide" about receivers antennas and component parts of SW radios.
Nov 5 Electronic Musician   Added 39 issues between 1990 and 2003 in this new section of WorldRadioHistory
  Early Radio Collection   Added an earlier 1940's booklet from Crosley entitled "Radio and How It Works" explaining to the consumer the "mysteries" of radio.
Added RCA's 1922 booklet "Radio Enters the Home" with an explanation of radio and how to user RCA products.
Nov 4 CMJ New Music Report   Added several dozen issues of the monthly New Music Report from 1997 to 2009. They are underlined to facilitate location of the new additions.
  United Kingdom Miscellaneous Publications   Added a single issue of Radio Service magazine from November 1951 complete with several 1951 service manuals and diagrams.
Nov 2 Philco Serviceman   Added a set of |1951-52 Home Radio Service Sheets
Added 6 Philco Service Supervisor issues from 1952-53
Added one lesson from Philco Radio Service Fundamentals
Added 11 issues of Philco Serviceman and Philco Serviceman New Products
  Music Business / Music Reporter   Added 15 issues from 1958, 1959 and 1963
  Equipment Catalogs   Added the 1946 Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation tube catalog.
  Electronic Design   Added 10 issues from 1996
Nov 1 Fabulous Added two issues from 1964 
  Hits
(Music Magazine)
  Added August 22 1994, September 9 1996 and August 24, 2001
  Music Connection   Added August 2, 1984 issue
  Early Radio Collection   Added a reprint of the 1940's booklet "Radio Alphabet" which is has definitions of radio terminology.
  Station Albums and Booklets   Added the 30th Anniversary booklet from KGNC and associated stations in Amarillo, including a history of other stations in the market.
  Bookshelf: Biographies   Added the two volume 1910 "Edison: His Life and Inventions" by Dyer and Martin.
  Bookshelf: Radio Engineering   Added volumes 2, 3 and 4 of the Handbook of Radio Frequency Interference by Frederick from 1962
  Radio Program Syndicators   Added a new page from radio program syndicators that were not traditional wired networks.
Added four publications from the Jones Satellite Networks: Country Formats, Network Formats, Network Listen Lines and Promotion Catalog
Added three publications from Drake-Chennault: 1987 Lite Hits Operations Manual, 1987 Great American Country Operations Manual and 1983 Promotions Catalog.
  Canadian Musician Added one issue from 1979 and 7 issues from the 1980's. They are underlined.
Oct 29 SAMS Books   Completed the 6 edition collection of Dial Cord Stringing Guides
  CB Action Added 47 issues of CB Action, the Australian Citizens' Band magazine from the 1980's and 1990's.
Oct 28 International Musician & Recording World   Added one issue from 1980 and four from 1979
  Bookshelf: Radio Station Books and Stories   Added "Joe's Journals" about WDRK in Greenville, Ohio. This station eventually lost its license and the author, Joe Fahnestock, tells an anecdote filled story of working with WDRK which operated from 1962 to 1989
  Early Radio Catalog Collection   Added the Radiolek 1942 catalog entitled "Radio Profit Guide".
Added Radio Bargain News A catalog of radio parts presented as a magazine by Federated Purchaser in October 1932
Oct 23 Network Books and Brochures   Added four CBS publications from the later 1940's.
CBS Television News Reporting Osborne 1954
CBS The Second Most Important Thing In Radio 1948
CBS We Don't Know Why They Listen 1949
The Columbia Program Book Directory of shows for second quarter of 1943
Added two NBC Booklets or Brochures
NBC Measuring Radio's Sales Power 1948
NBC Radio City Tours visitor brochure including experimental pre-WWII TV studios.
  Radio Logbooks and Station Lists   Added the Spiegel Air Castle log book and radio set manual from 1939
  IRE Proceedings
Professional Audio
  Added nearly all issues from September-October 1952 to November-December 1959, a total of 41 issues
Added all but one issues from January-February 1960 to November-December 1964.
  Hits   Added September 6 1996
  Fabulous Added September 12 and February 29 1964
  Music Reporter   Added the November 11 1957 issue of Music Reporter. This magazine changed to Music Business in 1964. This is the oldest issue of the title that we have found.
  Station Albums and Brochures   Added the WPAY, Portsmouth, Ohio 1985 50th anniversary booklet. This is a scan of a photocopy, so not "best quality".
Added an undated "Behind the Mike with KMA" with profiles and pictures of all the KMA, Shenandoah, Iowa entertainers and singers. Even a picture of Earl May himself!
Added an early brochure for KGBZ in York, Nebraska.
  International Musician & Recording World   Added three issues from 1978,1979 and 1983
  Early Radio Catalog Collection   Added the 1927 "World's Greatest Radio" brochure from Platt Music.
  Bookshelf: Station Books   Added Early Cincinnati Radio 1910-1970 by Rice from 1973
Added "The History of Radio In Mississippi" by McRaney from 1979. This is a  partial copy. We are looking for a full edition.
Oct 20 Radio Logbooks and Station Lists Added the Federal Radio Commission (FRC) 1932 listing of all stations in the US: "Radio Broadcast Stations of the United States from 1932 (just prior to becoming the FCC)
Added the 1930's Sears, Roebuck Broadcasting Stations log with radio set ads.
Added the 1920's Celeron "Listen In" booklet for buyers of Celeron radios.
Added the All-American-Official-Radio-Log-1929-With-Network-Show Schedules.
Added the 1940 "Short Wave Station List"
Added post-NARBA 1941 Los Angeles area station log & list
Added the "Eastern Columbia Cab" promotional Los Angeles station list.
  National Association of Broadcasters Publications   Added the 1976 Cartridge Tape Recordings and Reproductions booklet
Added the undated "Maintenance Log Requirements" booklet (If you know the date, please let us know)
Added the 1964 Standard Cartridge Tape Recording" booklet
Oct 19 Early Radio Collection   Added the 1925 booklet "The Merchandising of Radio" which was a research study by Curtis Publishing of the status of both broadcasting and radio set manufacturing. This is a true "State of the Industries" research project.
  Practical Electronics Added the 2nd Edition of the special edition book "Sound Design"
  Early Radio Catalogs   Added the Atwater Kent "Radio Instruction Book" editions 1 and 4 from 1924 and 1927. These are instruction on how to install, set up an antenna, employ batteries and how to enjoy a new Atwater Kent radio of any model.
Oct 18 Hits   Added August 24 2001 and September 16 1996
  ARRL Radio Amateur's Handbook   Added the 7th edition from 1930. With this addition, we are only in need of 3 editions from 1926 to 1984. Help us find 1929, 1928 and 1938 to fill in the missing ones.
  Music Row   Added April 8 1981 issue
  Electronic Design   Added the December 6 1965 issue
  Canadian Musician Added 5 issues from the '80's and one from 2012.
  U.K. Collection Added the first edition from 1934 of Modern Radio Engineer.  This is a wonderfully illustrated technical and hobbyist construction magazine.
  Radio Magazine   Added the 1948 Antenna Manual. We also have the 1936 edition.
  Popular Wireless Added July 5 1924 and April 18 1925
Tempo Added the October 1937 issue of this "Music Professional" magazine.
  Music Views   Added the October 1956 issue of this Capitol Records music buyer guide.
  Lafayette Catalogs   Added Lafayetter 1955 Catalog 12-5, the Christmas gift guide issue including new "transistor radio kits".
  Radio Fan-Fare   Added the July-August 1933 issue. Note that several magazines used this title in the 30's and 40's and we list the all on one page.
  Radio Doings   Added April 8, 1923 of this California and West Coast weekly radio program guide, filled with technical hints and articles and program notes. The April 8 edition details the White Radio Bill, which was the first step in creating the FRC! Also added: September 4 1927 (194 pages!) and March 16, 1924.
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  Duncan's American Radio
FM Technical Facilities
  Added Volume One with coverage maps of FMs in markets 1-100 from 1989-1990. Click the link in the left-hand college.
Oct 15 Modern Electrics   Added the August 1908 issue courtesy of the California Historical Radio Society
  Hobbies   Added November 19, 1958
  Ham Radio Today Added the March 1999 issue and the July "Special Edition" from 1997
Oct 13 Ham Radio Today Added March 1998, March 1997
  Rockpool   Added a new section for this rock and alternative "tip sheet" from the 80's into the 90's. It was primarily focused on college radio and club DJs.
  Early Radio Collection   Added the brief patent application from 1925 for the Franklin antenna.
  Western Electric Catalogs and Manuals   Added the Test Results for the 1923 WWJ transmitter
Added Diagrams and pictures of the 1925 104B Transmitter
Added the 1923 Western Electric Equipment catalog
Added the Instruction bulletin for the 450 and 451 radio transmitting equipment. .
  Electronic Media   Added November 28 1988
Oct 9 Radio Historian Calendar   You can now see images of the pages and order the 2025 Radio Historian's Calendar. Click the title for a link.
  Hi Fi Stereo Review   Added the 1972 Stereo Review Tape Guide.
Added the Stereo Review Tape Recording Guide 1978.
  Modern Era Collection   Added the 2001 "CBS Tour" with presentation for journalists of award winning CBS shows and artists.
  Claude Hall's Radio Report   Added three issues from April of 1979
  Radio Logs and Station Lists   Added the 1936 (uncertain of date) Crosley All Wave Log with maps and featuring a Crosley radio.
Added The American Announcer and Radio Log (see below)
  Early Radio Programming   Added the 1926 "The American Announcer and Radio Log" which has station lists and over 100 pictures and short biographic notes about radio announcers from local stations across the USA.
  RPM Canada Added September 2, 1978 issue of this Canadian music and radio magazine.
  Early Radio Collection   Added "Phono-Graphics", a 1992 "art book" with pictures of early radios.
  Home Study Courses   Added the 1955 DeVry Technical Institute "FCC License Course" with all lessons. This was a home study course aimed at obtaining an FCC 1st Class Radiotelephone License.
Musician Magazine Added the Musician Magazine's 1994 book "The Rock Musician: 15 Years of Interviews"
  Music Technology Added the August 1989 issue of the UK version of this magazine
  Early Radio Catalogs   Added the Radiolek catalogs for 1935 and 1936
Added RCA Radio Parts Catalog 1935
Added Hamilton Carr Wholesale Radio 1928
  Radio's Master Catalog   Added the 1955 second edition of the 19th edition.
  RCA Relay   Added April 1959 issue of this RCA employee magazine
  Early Radio Hobbyist Collection   Added the first issue of Radio Amateur News from April of 1937.
  Popular Wireless Added a combined file with all January 1929 issues
  Wireless World Added complete issue with covers and advertisements for September 1965
  Broadcast Communications   Added two issues from October 1978 and May 1979
Oct 8 Proceedings of the IRE   Added the "Proceedings"" from July to November of 1961. These are from the Semi-Annual book editions, and don't have ads or covers.
  FCC Documents   Added the "Code of Federal Regulations 47 Telecommunications" from October 31 1983.
Oct 7 Hits   Added February 21 2003
  Gavin Report   Added July 5 1985 and July 19 1985
  Fred   Added 12 issues of "Fred", a "tip sheet" produced by Buzz Bennett and C. C. Courtney in the 1978-1980  period.
  RMR   Added five issues of the Cuck Dunaway and Ron Brandon tip sheet from the later 1970's
  Music Technology
U.S. Edition
  Added 11 issues.
Oct 4 Country Music Life   Added 33 issues between 1965 and 1971.
Oct 1 Indiana Historical
Radio Society
  Added the three first issues from 2023
  Electronic Musician   Added a new page with the 1985 through today magazine Electronic Musician. There are now 3 issues, but over 50 are on their way.
  NASWA
North American Shortwave Association
  Added over 20 issues from 1999 to 2013. This publication is not just a short wave DXer's journal, but a history of international broadcasting going back, in our collectioin, to the 1970's.
Sep 30 RCA Manuals
& Catalogs
  Added the RCA Traveling Wave Antenna Manual
  Heathkit
Catalogs
  Added the assembly and operations manual for the 1973 "Most Accurate Clock"
  Babani Books Added: Babani-BP109-The-Art-of-Programming-1K-ZX81
Added: Babani-BP152-Z-80-Machine-Code
Added  Babani-BP550-Advanced-Guide-to-Windows-XP
  Bookshelf:
SAMS Books
  Added: SAMS Amateur Radio Construction Projects Caringella 1963
Added: SAMS Amateur Tests and Measurements Dezettel 1976
Added: SAMS Radio Transmitter Principles and Projects Noll 1971
Added: SAMS So You Want to be a Ham Hertzberg 1971
Added: SAMS TV Service Pricing Manual
Added: SAMS .Television Tube Location Guide TGL 9
  Bookshelf: General Technical Subjects   Added: A History of Engineering & Science in the Bell System 1984
Added: Navy Electronics Installation and Maintenance 1965
Added: Refresher Course in Mathematics Camm 1946
Added: Victory Amalgamated Engineering Reference Tables UK
  Equipment Catalogs
and Manuals
  Added Nautel-Amfet-AM-Transmitters-1982
Added the later 1960's Spotmaster 5 M audio console brochure.
Added the QEI 606 FM Exciter manual from 1994
Added Mosley-MRC-1600-Remote-Control-System-Manual-1984
Added Mosley-PCL-505-STL-1978-Manual
Added Dynamax-ESD10-Eraaser-Splice-Detector
Added Dynamax-DCR1000-Cart-Machine-1993
Added Dynamax-CTR-Series-Recorders
Added Sparta-ASC-305B-Stereo-Studio-Control
Added Mc-Martin-Briochures-and-Prices-1976
Added McMartin-Presentation-Leonard-Hedlund-FM-Clinic
  Collins Catalogs & Manuals   Added Collins-21-E-M-Broadcast-Transmitter-AM-1964
Added Collins-828E-1-5kw-AM-Transmitter-1976
Added Collins-Automatic-Tape-Control-Cart-Machine-A-190
Added Collins-IC-6A-IC-10A-Consoles-Manual
Added Collins-the-Rock-1kw-AM-1975
  Gates & Harris Manuals and Catalogs   Added 1961 Spot Tape manual
Added 1965 Modulation Monitor manual for AM
Added 1971 UHF and VHF transmitter and accessory catalog
Added 1982 AM-FM-TV Catalog
Added 1997 CD Link STL manual
Added 2004 DAX-5 AM transmitter manual
Added 2005 Dexstar IBOC Exciter manual
Added Jack Selmeyer's DX 50 Test Procedure
Added FM 1H FM transmitter manual from 1977
Added 1977 catalog of TV transmitters and associated gear.
Sep 29 IRE Proceedings   Added the 1956 Convention Record Part 7: Audio and Broadcast from the Institute of Radio Engineers.
  Heathkit
Catalogs
  Added 58 catalogs from the very first in 1946 to "the end" in 1993. All the new ones can be identified by hyphens ( - ) between the words of the description. We have separated the Heathkit catalogs into their own section now that there are so many of them!
  Australian Musician Added a new page with 5 issues of this magazine.
  Catalogs   Added two 1967 Sencore Catalogs. <
Added the 1986 Fordham Electronic Catalog
  Eico Catalogs   Added 1967, 1974, 1981, 1985 and a 1974 "Condensed" catalog.
  Elementary Electronics   Added the 1978 special edition "Budget Electronics".
  Country Music Life   Added a new page for this 60's and 70's country music fan magazine and included 12 editions.
  SBE Signal   Added the June 2007 edition of the magazine of the Society of Broadcast Engineers.
Speaker Builder Added 26 issues from 1995 to 2000
  Billboard   Added the 1988 Buyer's Guide
  Music Connection   Added an issue from 2012 and one from 1984
  City Radio Magazines Knoxville   Added 7 editions of "Knoxville on the Air" from 198 with complete listings of the radio programs from the local stations. Many ads for stations, too.
  Canadian Musician   Added 5 issues from 199 to 2008 and one from 1982
Sep 27 Early Radio Collection   Added the Tung-Sol WW II era booklet "Your Radio In Wartime".
  Wireless World Replaced April 1964 with better and complete scan.
  Hits   Added December 6 1993 and March 10 2000 and Aug 11 and Aug 25 of 2000
  Popular Wireless Added January 5 1929
  Modern Era Collection   Added the Press Club of San Francisco's 1970 "50 years of Broadcasting" special edition.
Sep 26 Radio's Master   Added the 1959, 1941 and 1960 editions of this directory and catalog of all electronic industry products, from components to test gear and antennas. We now have 267 of these editions, from 1935 to 1970. And we have one more one the way! Only 7 needed.
  Radio Logs and Station Lists   Added the 1934 Stewart Warner "World of Radio Entertainment" log and radio program guide.
Added the 1934 "Radio Stations of the United States" booklet which has a color map of the NBC Red and Blue radio network connection system from 1927.
  Cornell Dublier Capacitor   Added 47 issues from the years 1940 to 1948. They are underlined.
  Home Study Courses   Added the full 99 lesson ASI(Advanced Schools, Inc) Radio & Television Service and Repair course from 1974
  Cisin's Shop Books   Added a new section in the Technical Bookshelf department for our first batch of 9 Cisin's service and maintenance guides.
  Popular Electronics
Special Editions
  Added the 1969 Popular Electronics Communications Handbook.
  Music Connection   Added November 24 1983
Sep 25 International Added the RTE Annual Report from Ireland for 2018 to 2022
  International Musician & Recording World   Added 8 issues from 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1981
  Broadcaster & Wireless Retailer Added the 1934 Broadcaster Trade Annual directory
Sep 21 EQ Magazine   Added 10issues from 2008, 2009 and 2010. They are underlined for easy location.
  World Radio   Added nearly 100 issues of World Radio, an amateur "ham" radio publication which ran from 1971 to 2009
  International Musician & Recording World   Added 8 issues frin 1977 and 1978
  Broadcast Equipment Catalogs & Manuals   Added the 1946 manual for the Westinghouse 50-HG 1 AM transmitter.
  Early Radio Collection   Added a collection of postcards printed in 1992 showing beautiful and unusual early radio sets.
Added the manual for the 1920's Federal Radio Junior radio telephone.
Added the National Radio Institute 1921 Radio Quiz Book for the Federal Government Radio Operator License Exam.
  Early Radio Catalogs   Added the 1940 Mallory catalog
Added the 1931-32 S.S. Kresge Radio & Television Catalog and Service Men's Guide.
  Bookshelf: General Technology   Added: A History of Engineering & Science in the Bell System 1984
Added :Navy Electronics Installation and Maintenance 1965
Added Refresher Course in Mathematics Camm 1946
Added: Victory Amalgamated Engineering Reference Tables UK
  Bookshelf: Technology Handbooks   Added: Radio Communication Handbook RSGB 4th 1968
Added: Radio Communication Handbook RSGB 5th 1977Added:
Added: Radio Magazine Radio Handbook Missing Undated Ver 2
Added: The Radio Amateur's Handbook Collins 5th 1927
  Bookshelf; Radio Technology   Added: AM Broadcast Station Antenna Systems Griffith 1998
Added: Fundamentals of Modern Television TTI
Added: Handbook Radio Frequency Interference Volume I 1962
Added: Introduction to Electricity & Radio Turney 3rd 1948
Added: Introduction to Electricity & Radio Turney-1948
Added: Ionospheric Radio Propagation Davies 1966
Added: Practical Transmitters for Novices Case 1996
Added: Principles and Practices of Telecasting Ennes 1st 1953
Added: Principles of Electricity Telephone & Telegraph AT&T 1961
Added: Principles of Television Engineering Fink 1st 1940
Added: Radio Vol 1 Tucker 1952
Added: Radio Vol II Tucker 1954
Added: Telecasting and Color Tyler 1946
Added: Television Engineering Part 1 Fundamentals Roberts 1985
Added: Television Engineering Part 2 Applications Roberts 1985 II
Added: Video Handbook Scheraga Roche 1951 Edition
Added: Steringa Idzerda de pionier van de radio omroep Boer 1969
  Bookshelf; Radio Shack   Added Radio Shack Electronics Data Book 1972
  Bookshelf: Audels   Added: Audels-Television-Service-Manual-1953
  Bookshelf: Servicing & Construction   Added: Transistor Radio Circuitry Mullard 1962
  Bookshelf: TAB Books   Added: TAB 99 Ways to Use Your Oscilloscope Saunders
Added: TAB Commercial FCC License study Guide Swearer
Added: TAB How to Test Almost Everything Horn 3rd 1993
  Bookshelf: SAMS Books   Added: 101 Ways to Use Your Oscilloscope Middleton 1959
Sep 20 Fabulous Added over 25 issues between 1965 and 1969
  International Added  2015 to 2017 annual reports of RTE from Ireland.
  Bookshelf: Radio and TV Programming    Added: Boxtree Encyclopedia of TV Detectives Tibbals 1992
Added: Total Television Programming 1948 1996 McNeil
  Bookshelf: History    Added: Achievement in Radio National Bureau of Standards 1986
Added: Active Radio Pacifica's Brash Experiment Land 1999
Added: La Radio Antes de la TV Aguilar 1991 Puerto Rico (in Spanish)
Added: Listening In Douglas 1999
Added: Machine Age to Jet Age Tabletop Radios Stein 1994
Added: Stay Tuned Sterling Kittross 1978
Added: The Best Seat in the House Weaver 1994
Added: The Talking Machine Compendium 1877  1929 Fabrizio
  Bookshelf: News    Added: A Broadcast News Manual of Style MacDonald 2nd 1994
  Bookshelf: Commentary    Added: Freedom and Responsibility in Broadcasting Coons 1961
  Bookshelf: Business of Broadcasting    Added: Broadcast and Cable Selling Warner 1986
  Bookshelf: Regulatory    Added: Commissioners of the FCC 1927 1994 Flannnery 1995
  Bookshelf: Education    Added:  International Handbook of Broadcasting Systems Rosen 1988
  Bookshelf: Biography    Added: Connie Chung Broadcast Journalist Malone 1992
Added: From Roman Priest to Radio Evangelist Aldama 1946
Added: Maverick Inventor Goldmark 1937
  Bookshelf: Enjoyment of Radio And Television    Added;  Por Onda Corta Tatum 1942
Added;  Radio Soundtracks 2nd Edition Pits 1986
Added;  Television Works Like This Bendick 1st Edition 1949
Sep 17 Station Albums Added the 1961 WNAX Yankton SD "Your Neighbor Lady" booklet from 1961. Recipes, and lots of pictures of the station's activities over ist five state coverage area.
Added a brochure from around 1941 for WBEN, Buffalo, NY,  with interesting studio and transmitter pictures.
Sep 16 "File Cabinet"
Interesting FCC Filings
  Added the 1940 Proof of  Performance for WEAF in New York City. Includes coverage map projections, field readings and directional vs Non Directional coverage.
  IRCA Mexican Log   Added the 1924-1925 International Radio Club of America's 1924-25 Mexican AM station logbook with slogans, formats and further information on all AM stations in Mexico.
You can find it  at the very bottom of the page under "2024".
  Network Booklets and Albums   Added the 1947 NBC booklet "NBC's Air Castles" about the design, construction and use of its broadcast studios. Lots of pictures of what was advanced technology back then.
  Hits   Added December 22, 2002 and Oct 23 2003
  Westinghouse Engineer   Added the 1941-1950 cumulative index of past issues.
  Station Albums   Added an illustrated presentation to the FCC by WHO in Des Moines, Iowa from 1946. This is not a promotional booklet like many we have, but a detailed description of how WHO serves its very wide audience in the Midwest.
Sep 15 Discoveries   Added almost 3 full years of issues of this music collector magazine published 1988 to 2006
  FMedia   Added nearly all issues from 1989 to 2006 of Bruce Elving's FMedia, a monthly newsletter about FCC actions on the FM band. This was the sister publication to the FM Atlas book.
Sep 14 Hits   Added July 5, July 12, August 30 1993 and January 31, September 26 and May 23 1994 and July 23, April 16 1999 and October 13 2000.
  Practical Mechanics Replaced February through June 1955 issues with better scans with all ads and covers
  General Radio   Added two catalogs, Apparatus and Parts May 1931 and Parts #923 1925
  RCA Relay   Added the October 1957 issue of this employee magazine for RCA staff.
  Etude   Added 9 issues from the 1930's of this music magazine
  Sylvania News   Added Spring 1974 edition.
  Maplin Project Books Added Maplin Projects Book 18 from 1986
  Radio Doings   Added October 24, 1926 and September 16, 1935 issues
  EQ Magazine   Added July 1995 and February 1996
Sep 13 Listening In   Added our first 4 issues of this "illustrated radio magazine" which began in mid-1923. This was a localized radio publication for "radio fans in Western New York".
  Music Connection   Added July 7 1986, April 2014, September 2 1985, March 31 and April 14 and May 12 1997, March 18 and September 2 1996
  Music Row   Added May 2004 edition
  Early Radio Collection   Added the Life Magazine "Radio Number" from March, 1926. Much of the issue is devoted to radio and its followers.
  Indiana Historical Radio Society   Added issues from 1973, 2003 and 2004
  Ham Radio Today Added January and May 1997
  Polyphony   Added 45 issues from 1975 to 1985 of this journal which later became "Electronic Music".
  Canadian Musician Added 20 issues from 1999 to 2022
Sep 12 Post Office Electrical Engineers Added several dozen issues between 1912 and 1978 of this UK technical journal.
  International Musician & Recording World   Added 11 more issues from 1976 and 1977
Sep 11 International Musician & Recording World Added 14 issues between 1975 and 1977. These are joint UK and US editions.
Sep 10 UK Miscellaneous Added "The 270 Set", a booklet about the first pirate focused on the North adn Midlands area of England
  International   Added the RTF Annual Reports from the Irish state broadcaster from 2010 to 2014
  Music Technology   Added December 1986
  Practical Electrics   Added four issues from 1924 of this Gernsback magazines, first named Amazin Facts and then The Experimenter
  Canadian Musician Added 6 issues. They are underlined.
  Network Publications: ABC   Added issue #2 of the ABC network "ABC Dialer's Diary" from 1949.
  Network Publications: NBC   Added the 1944 Blue Network Fun Book
  BBC Books   Added an undated post-WW II booklet called Calling All Nations with an historical perspective to the BBC news and information services.
Aug 26 M-Street Journal   Added issues from July 1988 to November 1990 and 2001 to Sprin 2002
Aug 25 NAB Publications   Added: Radio Broadcasting: A Profession a speech by the NAB President 1948
Added: Program for the NAB program clinic seminar 1949
Added: Sales Potential of FM with data on existing FM stations in 1950
  Billboard Airplay Monitor   Added the "Radio Powerbook" for 2002. This is a radio and music industry directory.
  Rave Added November 1966
  Fabulous Added July 30 1966. While this is a fan magazine, both Rave (above) and Fabulous give excellent pictorial histories of the pop explosion beginning in the early 60's in the UK.
  International   Added an undated brochure with rate card for Radio Nordsee International operating on MW, SW and FM from the coast off of the Netherlands in the earlier 1970's (1970-1974).
Added these booklets from Austria:
40 Jahre Rundfunk 1964
40 Jahre Rundfunk in Osterreich 1964
Bilamz Eines Jahrzents Osterreichisecher Rundfunk 1957
Radio Osterreich 30 Jahre_84
ORF Zentrum Wien
Radio Wien 25 Jahre Osterreichhischer Rundfunk 1949_80
Added the RTF Annual Reports from the Irish state broadcaster from 2001 to 2009
FCC Publications & Filings Added a collection of filings with the FCC in 1949 on the subject of editorializing by broadcast licensees.
Added the 2007 filing by KFI Los Angeles for a tower replacement after an aircraft accident felled the existing tower.
Added the 1940 filing of KGNC in Amarillo, TX, to move to 860 from 1440. Eventually, it moved to 710.
Aug 24 Westinghouse Engineer   Added 1972 index of that year's articles.
  Electronic Media   Added 43 issues from 1987 and 1988. I am looking for the full set of this publication. Many university libraries have them in closed collections. Any site user of WorldRadioHistory who can find these at a local public or university library and obtain a release of them will be rewarded with $200 for the effort.
  FCC Publications & Filings   Added the 1946 WHAM, Rochester New York Clear channel hearing presentation.
  Station Booklets and Albums   Added the 1948 WINN Louisville, KY, "Going Forward With Radio" booklet with pictures of station and staff members as well as the city of Louisville.
Added an undated WCCO Minneapolis program and talent brochure.
  Home Study Courses   Added the Motorola Training Institute two-way radio course from 1960
  National Radio Club
(AM DXing)
  Added the Antenna Reference Manuals Vol 1 and Vol 2 from 1985 and 1989. These are detailed descriptions of Medium Wave (530-1700kHz) DX antennas.
Aug 23 Station "Odds and Ends"   Added the 1955 WHOL Allentown PA Community Club Awards booklet. This is in out section for miscellaneous station promotion materials.
Added a batch of representative issues of "GO" which was a pop weekly issued in a number of cities under the heading of a local Top 40 radio station.
  Radio Pictorial Added Three issues from 1937
  Lenkurt Demodulator   Added 60 issues ranging from 1956 to 1982. They are all underlined.
  BBC London Calling Added the March 2 1941
  Home Study Courses   Added the Cleveland Institute of Electronics basic electronics course set from 1962-1963. This is the same course that your WorldRadioHistory webmaster took during his early years in broadcasting.
  Indiana Historical Radio Society   Added 14 issue of the club bulleting ranging from 1973 to 2006. All are underlined.
  Federal Communications Commission (USA)   Added Commissioners of the FCC 1927-1994 by Flannery from 1994
Added the Code of Federal Regulations 47 Parts 70 to 79 from 1987
  Ham Radio Today Added all issues from 1996
Aug 19 Broadcasting & Cable   Added many issues from 2002 to 2006 starting when "Broadcasting" became "Broadcasting & Cable". We are looking for additional issues; any help you can provide will be welcome.
Aug 18 BMI   Added the "Pop Hits 1940-1974" history of BMI's biggest songs.
  Radio Life   Added 5 issues from 1957 and three from 1949. While this was a radio and television guide for Los Angeles, it had an extensive  coverage of artists and network programs as well as local station news.
  Electronics   Added three special editions; Circuits for Electronic Engineers from 1977, Design Techniques for Electronic Engineers from 1977 and Designer's Casebook Number 3 from 1979
  Radio Craft   Added the 1944 edition of the Radio Electronics Reference Annual. These are listed on the Gernsback publication and book page
  Radio Pictorial Added August 9 1935, August 13 1937 and a complete edition for December 2 1938
Musician Added September 1997 and November 1979,  April 1981
  Music Row   Added December 23 2009 and October 2003
  Music Connection   Added August 18 1986
  EQ   Added May and June of 1995
  International Musician and Recording World   Added April, October  and November 1979,
  AudioXpress   Added all 12 issues from 2004
Aug 10 AudioXpress   Added the first three years of publication of AudioXpress, and audiophile magazine consolidating Audio Electronics, Glass Audio and Speaker Builder. Note that this continues to be published and we include a link to their excellent website.
  Valve   Added 55 issues from 1994 to 1999 of this "Vintage audio listeners and valve enthusiasts" newsletter.
  All Music Searches   Updated and rebuilt the searches on all U.S. Music titles. These are the individual searches for each title and are only updated a few times a year. If any  don't work right, let us know as there was about 20 hours of work and there have to be some errors!
  All Audio Searches   We are adding individual title searches to all the audio magazines from North America. This is still being done at 1 AM PST but let us know if there are errors.
Aug 9 Band Leaders   Added March 1946 issue of this magazine featuring the Big Bands, the crooners and the music industry at the time.
  Radio Logbooks & Station Lists   Added an RCA Travel Log promoting RCA Radiotron Tubes. Lists of Shortwave and Police radio stations.
  International Musician and Recording World   Added January and June of 1979
  Musician   Added three issues: Jan 1998, August 1997, April 1996
  Radio Guide   Added March 4 2010
Aug 8 Radio World   Added 37 issues from 2001 to 2021
Aug 6 Early Radio Catalogs   Added the M&H Wholesale 1930 and 1933 catalogs
Added the Radiolek 1937 Catalog
  Bookshelf: Regulation and Legislation   Added: The Politics of Broadcast Regulation Krasnow 1973 1st Edition. We now have editions 1, 2 and 3 available for comparison.
  Bookshelf: SAMS   Added the 1959 edition of 101 Ways to Use Your Oscilloscope. We now have the 1974 edition and this one to compare tube technology with solid state.
Bookshelf: Radio & TV Engineering (Post 1940) Added: Video Handbook Scheraga Roche 1951 Edition
Added: AM Broadcast Station Antenna Systems Griffith 1998
Added: Fundamentals of Modern Television Television Training Institute
Added: Handbook Radio Frequency Interference Volume I 1962
Added: Introduction to Electricity & Radio Turney 3rd 1948
Added: Ionospheric Radio Propagation Davies 1966
Added: Practical Transmitters for Novices Case 1996
Added: Principles and Practices of Telecasting Ennes 1st 1953
Added: Principles of Electricity Telephone & Telegraph AT&T 1961
Added: Principles of Television Engineering Fink 1st 1940
Added: Radio Vol 1  Tucker 1952
Added: Radio Vol II Tucker 1954
Added: Steringa Idzerda de pionier van de radio omroep Boer 1969
Added: Telecasting and Color Tyler 1946
Added: Television Engineering Part 1 Fundamentals Roberts 1985
Added: Television Engineering Part 2 Applications Roberts 1985 II
  Bookshelf: TAB Books   Added: How to Test Almost Everything Horn 3rd 1993
Added: 99 Ways to Use Your Oscilloscope Saunders
Added: Commercial FCC License Study Guide Swearer
  Bookshelf: The Business of Broadcasting   Added: TAB Books' "TAB How To Sell Radio Advertising"
  Bookshelf: History   Added: The Third Floor Front Greene
Added: Zenith radio The Early Years 1919 1935 Cones 1997
Added: Media at War Radio´s Challenge to the Newspapers Jackaway 19
Added: Pioneer Mikes Kramer 2009
Added: The Complete Talking Machine 2nd Reiss 1996
Added: The Portable Radio In American Life Schiffer 1991
Added: The Talking Machine Fabrizo Fixed
Added: Broadcasting in the Arab World Boyd 1982
Bookshelf: Radio Programming Added the Spanish language "En La Misma Sintonía" which has biographical sketches of many contemporary U. S. and Mexican Spanish language radio station stars, programmers and leaders. It includes a profile of your WorldRadioHistory webmaster on page 118.
Bookshelf: Biography Added: Radio Boy Paul Gambaccini 1986
Added: Radio Wizard Edward Samuel Rogers Anthony 2000
Added: What Am I Doing Here Rollye James
Added: Everybody Called Him Cedric Hardman 1970
Added: Laughter in the Air Took UK 1981
  Bookshelf: Education   Added: Television and Radio Announcing Hyde 1998 India Edition
Added: The Technique of Radio Writing Weaver 1948
Added: Broadcaster's Guide 4 Volumes Wilson 1975
Added: Latin American Television Sinclair 1999
Added: Profitable Scriptwriting for TV & Radio Pedrick 1961
Added: Radio and TV News Editing & Writing 4th Wimer 1966
Added: Television and Radio Announcing Hyde 3rd 1979
Added: AP Broadcast News Handbook 1982
Added: AP Broadcast News Handbook 1998
  Wireless World Replaced January 1965 with complete issue with covers and ads.
  Audio Engineering   Added front and back covers from the June 1947 issue which was missing those pages.
Aug 5 Audio Added missing 20 pages from the December 1957 issue.
  Musician   Added June 1997
  Mix   Added the Mix Masetering Engineer's Handbook from 2000.
  Melody Maker Added three from 1965, one from 1966 and two from 1981
  International Musician   Added the July 1973 issue of this journal of the American Federation of Musicians
  Hi Fi Choice Added 6 issues of the  Best Buy Guide
Added 6 edition of "The Collection"
Added 6 special editions covering "Jimmy's Tweaks", "Compact Disk and Midi Systems", "The Essential Hi Fi Guide" and "The Essential Music Guide"
  CMJ New Music Monthly   Added September, October 1995, February 1996
  BBC Annual Report & Yearbooks Added the 2022-23 and 2023-24 Annual Report editions  We still need the 1998 and 1999 issues to complete this collection
  Babani Books Added Web Site Construction Simplified from 1999
July 28 Nebraska Broadcasters Association   Added a link to the excellent and extensive collection of documents and photos covering the history of radio in Nebraska.
  Billboard   Added the Buyer's Guide for 1989.
  Radio World   Added the 1989 "Annual" edition from December 31 of that year.
  Westinghouse Engineer   Added January 1972
  Music Row   Added September 7 1998
  Radio Television Appliance Sales Added January 1947
Jul 26 World Radio (US)   Added 10 more issues from 1997 and 1998
  Radio Contact Added a third issue from 1935
Jul 25 London Calling
from the BBC
Separated the "London Calling" issues into a separate page and added the 4 issues which are underlined.
FCC Documents Added the revised 2008 edition of the FCC's "The Public and Broadcasting" which is a guide for consumers and users of radio and TV.
  World Radio (US)   Added June 1998 of this amateur (ham) radio magazine.
Mix Added May 2012 and July 2012
  CMJ New Music   Added issues from August 1996 and June and November of 1997
  Maplin Project Books Added Book 20-A
  Billboard   Added August 27 1932, April 24 1926, August 6, 1932
Added May 31 1930, April 30 1932
  Radio Times
from the BBC
Added the 50th Anniversary edition of Radio Times
Added "The Art of Radio Times" illustrated book from 1981
(Both at bottom of page)
  Wireless World Added a revised (improved) scan of  the April 1961 50th Anniversary issue
  Lenkurt Demodulator   Added 7 issues from 1980 to 1982. They are underlined for easy location.
  Goldmine   Added a new page for this music collector magazine with many artist and record articles. 73 editions from 1998 to 2002 were added.
  The Street   New page with 7 issues of this fan magazine which began in 1988 and was published by the Record World retail chain from the Northeastern US.
  Radio Review Added November 9 1935 edition.
  Radio Television Appliance Sales Added October 1946 issue of this Canadian appliance and radio / TV dealer magazine.
  Musician   Added two issues from 1977 and 1978
  International Musician   Added 4 issues from the 1970's. They are underlined. This is the magazine of the Musician's Union.
  Radio Contact Added two issues from 1935 of this magazine "for the enthusiast and constructor". The issues are the first and second editions.
  Radio Lists and Logbooks   Added the 1927 booklet from the Mona Motor Oil Company, the original owner of KOIL in Omaha. Pictures, as well as a station logbook.
Added the Philco "Radio Personalities and Radio Log" from 1940. Featrues pictures of Philco radios
  Music Connection   Added two issues from the 1980's and four from the 2010's
  AFTRA
(SAG AFTRA)
  Added the January-February 1979 "Stand By" magazine from AFTRA.
  EQ Magazine   Added 5 issues. They are underlined.
  International Music & Recording World   Added September 1978 issue.
  Westinghouse Engineer   Added over 70 issues from 1959 into the early 70s. This nearly doubles the collection size. Jobs of this size are bound to have errors so if you find one, please let us know so it can be fixed.
  Early Radio Magazines   Added "Radio Programs" first (and perhaps only) issue from October 13 1929
  Billboard   Added the fold-out "Hot 100" Chart to the April 4  1964 edition.
  Canadian Musician   Added January-February 2008 issue
Added March 2010 and September and November of 2007
Jul 19 Record World   Added either new or complete issues. They are highlighted in RED
  AFTRA   Added the Winter 1979 edition of the AFTRA magazine. This is out oldest issue of the Radio and TV Artist union.
  Modern Era Collection   Added "What Every Young Announcer Should Know" a manual from Armed Forces Radio Services 1951
  Canadian Musician Added the January-February 2017 edition.
Station Booklets and Albums Added a later 1920's "Souvenir and Picture Book" from KFNF in Shenandoah, Iowa. Along with KMA, these were important agricultural information stations for several decades.

Added a post-WW II era booklet from WHO Des Moines, Iowa covering foreign farm information.
  Lafayette Catalogs   Added our first 1954 catalog, the 41st anniversary catalog from 1961 and the summer 1961 catalog
Jul 11 Early Radio Catalogs   Added a later 1920's catalog from Graymore Radio Corp. in New York City.
  Early Radio Miscellaneous   Added 1925 ARRL (American Radio Relay League) convention program. Lots of interesting ads, too!
Jul 9 EQ   Added January, February, March of 1995
  Modern Era Catalogs   Added the 1949 Canadian Electrical Supply Radio Buying Guide
  Canadian Musician Added March/April 2009
  Radio Row   Added a new page for Radio Row, a 1945 to 1947 pictorial fan magazine filled mostly with pictures of radio stars.
  Musician   Added December 1978
  Westinghouse Engineer   Added August 1943
  db Magazine   Added October 1980
  Hi Fi Music at Home   Added October 1958 and September 1958 of this Milton Sleeper audio magazine
  Hobbies Added 5 more issues from 1965 and one from 1954. The are underlined.
Jul 3 EQ Added 13 issues, all from 2000 to 2002. They are underlined-
  Early Radio Catalogs   Added the 1929 Rasco Radio Parts catalog from Radio Specialty Company (RASCO). 114 page extensive catalog of radio parts and supplies.
  International Television Almanac   Added the 1973 edition. We divide these into the extensive "Who's Who" biographical sketches and the remainder of the stations, service, agency and program sections. We now have 57 of the 59 editions published between 1956 and 2014
  Music Connection   Added four issues from 1987 and 1989
  Institute of Radio Engineers Publications   Added the 1962 IRE Directory. This is a huge 1700 page book with members, listings of manufacturers and products and even the IRE bylaws and organization. Look for the link in the left hand column at the bottom.
  Hits   Added Edition 3 of Hits' magazine's RainMakers books. This one features articles about MICHELE ANTHONY IRVING AZOFF MARTY BANDIER JOHN BRANCA TROY CARTER JODY GERSON SIR LUCIAN GRAINGE ALLEN GRUBMAN JIMMY IOVINE JOEL KATZ ROB LIGHT MAX LOUSADA MIKE McVAY BOB PITTMAN JON PLATT MICHAEL RAPINO SARA NEWKIRK SIMON ROB STRINGER
Canadian Musician Added April 1983 October 1995, May-June 2003, July-August 2002, May-June 2004, July-August and November-December 2001, September-October and May 1998, November-December 2003, February and October 1997,
  Hobbies Added 33 issues from 1964 and 4 issues from 1965.
  Hi Fi + Added a new section with issues 1 from April 1999 to September 2008 of this premium audio magazine from the UK. Hi Fi + is still published and we have included links to their active and interesting website.
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