Luxury Railroad Travel Postage Stamps
February 2, 2023

Celebrating Luxury Rail Travel … in the 1930’s & 1940’s!

As the message read under that headline on this set of five U. S. postage stamps issued on August 26th, 1999 ……

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Bill Tynan (on left) and Bob Carpenter (right) visit Marlin at XM Satellite Radio in 2002.
January 28, 2021

Remembering WHFS …

  . . . and its two founders! Updated from the original post dated 9/13/18. The story of this station’s birth, which…

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September 24, 2020

Another Radio Anniversary!

Here in 2020, as historians and radio aficionados celebrate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of radio “broadcasting” … I want to…

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September 5, 2019

Like it or not … Disco isn’t a fad

In their July of 1979 issue, a now long-defunct industry magazine named Broadcast Communications published an article under the above headline. It…

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July 11, 2019

A message for those who aspire…

Each year, at the April luncheon of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia, a group of 20 college students each receive a “scholarship”…

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June 20, 2019

The Birth and Evolution of the FM Dial “Card”!

As the Musings planned for this space hasn’t come together as anticipated … and as a gentleman recently engaged me in an…

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Radios - AM, XM, and Marlin's Book
November 1, 2018

Marlin’s Story

When one looks at the radio pictured on the dust cover of my memoir, some likely think that the contents are about…

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