It’s hard to believe that AM radio is 100 years old this.
Off topic, but I recall being a little boy, fascinated by how you hear stations from far away at night. I used to look forward to sundown, and hearing far away radio stations on my little transistor radio.
And this tied in with my interest in baseball. I recall hearing night games broadcast on WLW in Cincinnati, WJR in Detroit, WGN and WMAQ in Chicago, and hearing Harry Carey on KMOX broadcasting Cardinal games.
As a kid I used to listen at night to WWVA in Wheeling West Virginia, that’s when I learned to love country music!
I was also fascinated in hearing distant AM radio stations at night. I tied to hear and identity as many distant stations as I could. Then I discovered shortwave radio and I listened to music and programs from around the world - and this was many years before the Web or streaming audio.
This article is interesting. Broadcast radio was new technology for the 1920 election. TV was relatively new by the time of the 1952 election. The 2000 election was really the first election that was widely followed on the Web.
Yep, and occasionally we’d get TV Skip, so all the way in Florida, I would occasionally get TV stations all the way in Michigan or even Canada.