
Railroad History: Shiny or Rusty Rails?
What better way to introduce a series of railroad photos than to get your attention with this marvelous picture of the fireworks…

Welcoming In The New Year with Auld Lang Syne!
At the stroke of midnight on December 31st of each year, when you are with at least another person or two, what…

Special Memories … shared with Friends!
The above photo was taken 18 years ago … in mid-December 2003! You likely do not recognize all of the faces, and…

Christmas & Precious Memories
By the time you will read this in the early days of December, numerous radio stations in all corners of our nation…

Radio Automation … circa 1974!
In case you don’t recognize us, the gentleman on the left is James A. Schulke, the proprietor of Stereo Radio Productions (SRP)…

How Gratitude Changes You …
Earlier this week, as the calendar turned to November … I received a reminder that this month is National Gratitude Month (which,…

Easy Listening is not dead!
Back in 2019, I wrote about a true radio broadcasting entrepreneur named Norm Alpert. We lost Norm in December of 2018, not…

In the News … 77 years ago this week!
Here’s the text of another report of what those who listened to XM Radio’s 1940s Channel — known as the Savoy Express…

enLighten, Marlin, & his 2021 SGMA Hall of Fame Induction
The enLighten Channel on XM Radio A prime definition of “enlighten” is “to give spiritual knowledge or insight” … which certainly was…

Marlin’s Good-Time Picture Show – Part Five
As noted before, prior to leaving Maryland in the early part of this year, I sorted and sifted through many mounds of…

WNEW-AM’s Family tree!
Let’s say the trunk of the tree is the fledgling new industry of radio broadcasting. Eighteen months after KDKA Pittsburgh and WWJ…

A Radio Station & its Mistress! – Chapter One
Before we get into this story — which I will share in multiple parts over the next several weeks — I must…