EPISODE · Apr 30, 2024 · 3 MIN
When News Companies Tried To Deliver Newspapers Through Radio Transmissions
from Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson · host Brady Carlson
Today in 1939, the opening of the World's Fair in New York. One of the inventions featured there was a way that newspapers could broadcast newspapers over the radio and have special receivers print out a copy of the paper for customers. Plus: Michigan State University's Abrams Planetarium is also home to the Moist Towelette Museum?!? A Look Back at the Radio Newspaper of the Air (Radio World) Moist Towelette Museum (Weird Universe) Back our show on Patreon and we promise not to use the money to try to broadcast our print edition over the radio (because we don’t even have a print edition!)
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Today in 1939, the opening of the World's Fair in New York. One of the inventions featured there was a way that newspapers could broadcast newspapers over the radio and have special receivers print out a copy of the paper for customers. Plus: Michigan State University's Abrams Planetarium is also home to the Moist Towelette Museum?!? A Look Back at the Radio Newspaper of the Air (Radio World) Moist Towelette Museum (Weird Universe) Back our show on Patreon and we promise not to use the money to try to broadcast our print edition over the radio (because we don’t even have a print edition!)
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