Change your voice to sound like old radio broadcasts. Instantly transform for podcasts, videos, or creative work with our AI voice changer. Automatic Equipment - Equipment that enables a radio or TV station to operate automatically.
Average quarter - A term used in the industry describing audience measurements according to Arbitron. For example, the average number of persons listening to a particular station for at least five minutes during a 15. But before I knew it, I had over 1,200 terms, over 1,600 definitions, and hundreds of Internet links, and this did not include many technical terms.
I also realized that a surprising number of the terms I found would be new even to old. At its most basic level, radio is communication through the use of radio waves. This includes radio used for person-to-person communication as well as radio used for mass communication.
Both of these functions are still practiced today. Although most people associate the term radio with radio stations that broadcast to the general public, radio wave technology is used in everything from. The buzz-term for Old Time Radio is 'OTR'.
OTR usually means radio broadcasting from the golden age of radio, mostly before 1964.These shows from the pre-television age include adventure, comedies, mystery shows, western dramas and shows from World War II. Frustrated commercial operators would refer to the ham radio interference by calling them "hams." Amateurs, possibly unfamiliar with the real meaning of the term, picked it up and applied it to themselves. As the years advanced, the original meaning has completely disappeared.
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Amateur radio operators are often referred to as "hams" -- a term with a complicated history. At the start of the 1900s, "ham" was sometimes used to refer to someone as "unskilled" -- "Ham actor" being the most common example.