With the advent of the 9V battery-powered transistor radio in the 1950s, the “Emergency Radio” was born. Unlike vacuum tube receivers with heavy batteries or unpowered crystal radios, these handheld ...

Severe weather situations, such as hurricanes or wildfires, can develop extremely quickly. That’s why it’s vital to stay ready with an emergency preparedness supplies kit, and including one of the ...

The audio of the first radio broadcast from the Kentucky Derby in 1925 has been lost to time, but The Courier Journal printed a word-for-word transcript of it in the newspaper. Radio as we think of it ...