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'Those records still sound like nothing else'

MONTREAL - I was born a few years too late to get the full effect of the Byrds ambling out of my transistor radio speaker when they first arrived on the scene, but I listened plenty in the early '70s when music started to really get under my skin...Read more

Danger: Silly Season Ahead

If you play “Penny Lane” (or “Whole Lotta Love”) through an old monophonic transistor radio, you will hear both “sides” (as it were) of the song. But, the fidelity will be very poor, and you won't hear the nuances and richness of the song...Read more

50 essential GAA tweeters

Sure, we had seen one or two wild pulls in 2010, but it was the great influx of players onto the network last spring that saw hashtags and retweets threaten to rival the grand old GAA spectacle of a transistor radio pressed to an ear...Read more

Exhibit showcases works by pop art master Roy Lichtenstein

By Barbara Vitello It takes a rather exceptional artist to perceive the potential in a trash can, a transistor radio or a pair of Keds high-tops. Roy Lichtenstein, the celebrated 20th century artist who in the early 1960s helped ignite the pop art...Read more

Mobile phones replace radio as most desired rural gadgets

Some days ago, Sande asked his boss who had travelled home to buy for him a transistor radio and a mobile phone. Masheti, however, told him he could not afford to do the two things at once and asked Sande to choose one that he believed he needed most...Read more

India households with radios falls by 18.4 million in ten years

Ten years ago, around 35% of Indian households claimed they owned a radio or a transistor. According to the 2011 census data, that proportion has come down to about 20%. The number of households with radios has fallen in absolute numbers as well,...Read more

Turn up the radio! Rita Wilson covers the FM/AM classics

Rita said she took the title of her album from her years listening to the radio: "I used to put my transistor radio under my pillow at night so I could listen to all my favorites -- The Beatles, Diana Ross, Carly Simon, everybody...Read more

Radio Days

When I was growing up, listening to the radio was a big part of my life. With all their iPods, computers and such, do kids even listen to the radio these days? I don't know. Starting around age 10, I always had a transistor radio pressed up to my ear...Read more