An Article From National Communications Magazine About How Far They Perceive Modern Radio Scanners To Have Progressed From Earlier Turntable-Style Receivers:
https://natcommag.substack.com/p/scanning-todays-radios-have-come-far-from-past-receivers
Month: September 2025
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The Way The U.S State Of Florida Should Forevermore Continue To Be; Pastoral, With Small Population Sizes; As Was The Case When This 16 Millimeter Film Was Taken During The Great Depression, In 1931:
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ABC Evening News Newscast That Had Aired On January 1, 1970; Jointly Anchored By Frank Reynolds And Howard K. Smith, Which Had Passed Through The Transmitters Of ABC’s Owned And Operated Television Stations Such As WABC-TV And WXYZ-TV; And While My Friend And Former ABC Radio Executive Allen Shaw Was Working On Discontinuing The Automated ‘Love” Format On ABC’s Owned And Operated FM Radio Stations; Installing The Live Progressive Rock Format On ABC’s FM Stations; And Before Allen Shaw Had Changed The Call Letters Of Each Of ABC’s Seven Owned And Operated FM Radio Stations The Following Year, In 1971. ABC Television Had Aired A Teaser For A Television Documentary About The Golden Age Of The Automobile That They Would Actually Air In The Coming Weeks:
The Television Documentary about the Golden Age of the Automobile that ABC Television had aired on January 13, 1971:
Those of you who are interested in the history of ABC Radio may purchase from Barnes & Noble, a copy of a Book that I wrote, utilizing information and images compiled by my friend and former ABC Radio Executive Allen Shaw:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/memories-of-abc-radio-matthew-parij/1140918112?ean=9785983203235
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The Way NBC Television Affiliate, And Onetime CBS Television Affiliate WOW-TV/WOWT-TV, The Television Offspring Of WOW-AM; Originally Put On The Air By The Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society In 1949; Before Being Sold Alongside WOW-AM And FM To The Meredith Corporation, Chronicle Publishing Company, Benedek Broadcasting; And Now, Gray Television; Should Forevermore Continue To Be:
WOWT-TV celebrated it’s 75th Anniversary in September, 2024:
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Journalist Marie Torre (Whose Original Family Name Is Torregrossa, Before She Shortened The Family Name To Torre), Who Had Worked At Westinghouse Broadcasting/Group W-Owned KDKA-TV In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; And At ABC Owned And Operated WXYZ-TV; Is Such A Wonderful Journalist. Sad That She Was Charged In Contempt Of Court At One Time In 1959 For Refusing To Disclose The Name Of An Associate Of Judy Garland. Her Daughter, Roma Torre Is Just As Much Of A Wonderful Journalist As Her Mother Was.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61011898/marie-t-torre-tark
Westinghouse Broadcasting/Group W had replaced Marie Torre with fellow KDKA-TV News staffer Yvonne Forston to host their locally produced, in-house Talk Show in circa late 1976-early 1977:
Bill Burns and Marie Torre jointly anchoring KDKA-TV’s Noon Newscast on September 13, 1976:
Article in Time Magazine that was published in 1959 regarding Marie Torre, while working as a Reporter for the New York Herald Tribune Newspaper (which had ceased operations and publication in 1966); having sadly been sentenced to Contempt of Court due to her refusing to name the associate of Actress Judy Garland, mother of fellow Actress Liza Minelli:
Marie Torre’s daughter Roma Torre’s own website:
Roma Torre’s webpage on a Social Media website:
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A Conventional-Style School Bus On The International Harvester/Navistar C-Series Chassis & Cowl. The Chassis & Cowl And The Body Were Both Produced During The Mid-Late 1930’s.
Matthew Parij 