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Eugene Polley (November 29, 1915 – May 20, 2012) was an electrical engineer and engineering manager for Zenith Electronics who invented the first wireless remote control for television. Life and career
By the 1929 model year, Philco was in third place behind Atwater Kent and Majestic (Grigsby-Grunow Corp) in radio sales. In 1930, the company sold 600,000 radios, grossed $34 million, and was the leading radio maker in the country. By 1934, they had captured 30% of the domestic radio market. [9] A Philco 90 "cathedral" style radio from 1931
Ranger's creation was a music box-style electro-mechanical device, which played the three-note sequence at the push of a button. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] The initial installation was made at New York City headquarters, and went into operation on September 18, 1932. [ 9 ]
Sirius XM Radio maintains a full-time Radio Classics channel devoted to rebroadcasts of vintage radio shows. Starting in 1974, Garrison Keillor , through his syndicated two-hour-long program A Prairie Home Companion , has provided a living museum of the production, tone and listener's experience of this era of radio for several generations ...
the first to introduce push-button car radios [24] introduced soap operas to radio broadcasts [37] introduced the first non-electric refrigerator (Icyball) [citation needed] introduced the first refrigerator with shelves in the door (Shelvador) [15] launched the world's most powerful commercial radio station (WLW, at 500 kW) [12]
Radio broadcasting has been used in the United States since the early 1920s to distribute news and entertainment to a national audience. In 1923, 1 percent of U.S. households owned at least one radio receiver, while a majority did by 1931 and 75 percent did by 1937.
The Thousand Oaks Library system was created in 1982. The American Radio Archives are part of the Thousand Oaks Library's special collections, which also include information on the early history of Conejo Valley, including manuscripts, oral histories, photographs, and maps. [11]
Quiet, Please was produced at WOR in New York City, and began on the Mutual Network on June 8, 1947. Beginning in September, 1948, it was syndicated by ABC, though CBS executive Davidson Taylor expressed an interest in the show, writing in a memo in March 1948, "I like this show a lot and believe we could get it if we wanted."