Radio… “Of Mikes and Men” – Part 2
A year ago, I shared with you a small portion of this book, which was published in 1951. The story takes place…
There’s no Escape-ing … 20 years!
This Easy Listening/Beautiful Music genre’s channel was birthed on XM Satellite Radio 20 years ago this week, in the last week of…
Missing… But Not Forgotten!
A sub-title of this Musings could be, “Tunes you no longer hear on SiriusXM’s Escape channel.” Why? While these melodies have long…
The Westinghouse Stations – Part Two!
The following continues the story that began in the last Marlin’s Musings about the Westinghouse Corporation. If you’ve not read Part One,…
Radio History … the Westinghouse Stations!
The Westinghouse name, if remembered at all, likely means different things to different people, as it spanned so many aspects within the…
Remembering Glenn Miller!
What you’ll read below is an encore posting of a Musings I shared in 2018 immediately following our return from this small…
Trivia & Frances …
The above rouge’s gallery of characters, including yours truly, was a panel discussion among those providing programming content or consultancy services to…
Worst to First … A Story of Two Stations!
In recent weeks, many in the radio industry and fans of radio history have been all a-twitter over the release of this…
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)…
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…