![]() ![]() The most famous radio personalities: Howard Stern, Don Imus, Chris Evans, each with millions of listeners. Anne Swainson, master designer in Montgomery Ward’s Bureau of Design, was responsible for designing some of the 1940s radio cabinets. Some 55% of Americans listen to radio in their car. In the 1930s, Montgomery Ward began selling radios in its mail-order catalog using the brand name Airline. 21% use a digital music player, while 82% use the good old analogue radio. The Regency claimed in its advertisements that it was the 'world's first pocket radio' but Schiffer has chronicled the earlier history of pre-transistor portable radios, such as the Operadio 2 in 1923, the 'first stand-alone portable' (page 72), the Zenith Companion in 1924, the 'first boom-box advertised nationally' (page 75), and the Belmont. A staggering 42% of people listen via digital TV, with 36% using a DAB radio. 18% have downloaded shows after they were broadcast by visiting the station’s web site. In the West, more than 80% of people listen to radio, one in three of them listening via the Internet. ![]() In fact, today there are more than 33,000 radio stations in the world – more than 5 000 listed at Mike’s Radio World – attracting some 1.5 billion active listeners (the accumulative audience being much larger). Sony introduced the transistor radio in 1954. When Bell Labs put the transistor on the market in 1952 they had few takers apart from a small Japanese start-up called Sony. It did not take long for commercial production to begin. Bardeen, Shockley, and Brattain at Bell Labs a mere three years earlier in December of 1948. Articles for Daily Use : 1952 to 1983 - continued ( In 100 million yuan ) Year Transistor radio sets Detergent Thermos bottle Valve radio sets Sewing. They apparently said: “Who the hell would want to carry a radio around with them?” At the time, radio sets were rather large. In April of 1952 when this article appeared in Radio & Television News magazine, the bipolar junction transistor (BJT) had only made it out of the experimental laboratory of Messrs. The first radio factory was opened 5 years later.Īfter the invention of the transistor in 1947, several US electronics companies rejected the idea of a portable radio. In 1894 the president of the Royal Society, Lord Kelvin, predicted that radio had no future. The invention: Miniature portable radio that used transistors and created a new mass market for electronic products. Home » technology » Radio predicted to have no future Radio predicted to have no future ![]()
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