@#26 ... I miss listening / watching IMUS.. ...
Back in the day, I used to listen to Mr Imus. Indeed, as I drove on the highways from state to state to visit relatives for the holidays, I used to tune to his broadcasts, from one area AM station to another as I traversed the Country.
Don Imus
en.wikipedia.org
... Imus began his first radio job at KUTY in Palmdale, California in 1968. Three years later, he landed the morning broadcast position at WNBC in New York City.
He was fired from WNBC in 1977, worked for a year at WHK in Cleveland, and was rehired by WNBC in 1979. He remained at WNBC until it left the air in 1988, at which time his show moved to WFAN, which took over WNBC's former frequency of 660 kHz. Howard Stern's success with national syndication led Imus in the Morning to adopt the same model in 1993.
Imus was labeled a "shock jock" in his later career.[2] He was fired by CBS Radio in April 2007 after describing the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos". ...
Then his "shock-jock" apparently became his calling card. And facts seemed to suffer.
btw, the early days of FM radio...
FM Radio Reception Comes to US Cars in 1958
www.nutsvolts.com
... Radio technology was developed by Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi in 1895. However, this technology was not officially implemented in vehicles until the 1930s with the Motorola: the first-ever car radio.
The AM radio was first seen in American cars in the 1920s. Early car radios used the AM frequency, allowing drivers to listen to classics like Louis Armstrong's jazz or popular "Crooners" everywhere they went.
It started to become popular in the 1930s when most of the manufacturers of automobiles began to offer a built-in auto radio that was nicely integrated into the dashboard of the vehicle.
A circa-1930 brochure advertises a Motorola car radio. Courtesy of https://www.theglobeandmail.com.
Other suppliers offered less expensive ways to obtain an auto radio with alternatives to those sold by the car manufacturers. They offered both custom radios that fit into the dashboard like a factory radio and ones to mount under the dash that were more universal, less specialized, and frequently less expensive. Motorola became a big company by making excellent aftermarket automobile radios starting in the 1930s.
The first factory-supplied FM radio by a US automobile manufacturer was offered by the Lincoln Division of Ford Motor Company in 1957 for their 1958 Lincolns. Ford sold the FM tuner for other Ford products except for the Thunderbird because the dash extended to a center console that covered the transmission hump. ...
