Before the first television station came to Knoxville in the fall of 1953, the chief entertainment in the average household was radio. Families listened to music, religious programming, soap operas, ...

MAMIE SMITH AND HER JAZZ HOUNDS: (Singing) Now I've got the crazy blues since my baby went away. SHAPIRO: ...Or this. (SOUNDBITE OF GEORGE GERSHWIN'S "RHAPSODY IN BLUE") SHAPIRO: But at the same time ...

As the country music institution celebrates a century of its radio broadcast, listen to how the show defined the culture — ...

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The modern ham radio shack can take many forms. Some are shrines the “boat anchor” radios of old, named for their considerable weight. Others are simply a small, unassuming software-defined radio (SDR ...

A new era is born.