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Posted in Advertising

Beautiful Billboards #4: Mountain Dew and the St. Louis Cardinals, 1965

We have a special twofer in this edition of Beautiful Billboards. This great slide from 1965 features ads for Mountain Dew and baseball’s St. Louis Cardinals on KMOX-AM, which would seemingly

Posted in Listening Booth, Music

Listening booth — Amy Winehouse (Tränenpalast, Berlin, Germany 2004)

Here's a concert Amy Winehouse fans will want to hear. It features the late British singer performing live in Berlin, Germany in

Posted in Ephemera

Be tech-savvy: A handy glossary of CB lingo

Chris Holmes
posted on July 27, 2011June 11, 2013
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As a public service, here's a handy dandy glossary of CB (Citizens' Band) radio lingo, straight out of the July 1976 issue of Popular

Posted in Featured Posts, TV & Radio

Proud As a Peacock – NBC Logo Evolution

Chris Holmes
posted on February 2, 2011February 19, 2022
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A retrospective gallery of NBC TV logos from the 1940s to the present day. All hail the

Posted in Books

Book report: The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism

Chris Holmes
posted on September 10, 2010
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It’s hard to imagine, especially for those of my generation or younger, but broadcast news was not always a wasteland of vacuous celebrity gossip, shallow political “analysis”, or

Posted in History

This Week in History! (February 22-28)

Chris Holmes
posted on February 24, 2010July 31, 2011
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Here's a look back at the most important happenings in history for the week of February 22-28.

Posted in Advertising, Retrotisements

Retrotisement – Peter Gabriel III

Chris Holmes
posted on January 23, 2009July 31, 2011
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Chris Holmes offers up this unique audio retrotisement, a 1980 BBC radio spot for Peter Gabriel's self-titled third

Posted in Sports

Mike Francesa’s ego is now free to expand and collapse into a black hole

Chris Holmes
posted on August 15, 2008June 12, 2013
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Posted in Mental Debris

Hit the road Jack

Chris Holmes
posted on July 9, 2007June 12, 2013
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I can’t believe I missed this while I was away, but apparently last week it was announced that WCBS-FM, the long-running New York oldies station, will be returning to the airwaves this week.

Beautiful Billboards #4: Mountain Dew and the St. Louis Cardinals, 1965

Listening booth — Amy Winehouse (Tränenpalast, Berlin, Germany 2004)

Be tech-savvy: A handy glossary of CB lingo

Proud As a Peacock – NBC Logo Evolution

Book report: The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism

This Week in History! (February 22-28)

Retrotisement – Peter Gabriel III

Mike Francesa’s ego is now free to expand and collapse into a black hole

Hit the road Jack

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