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December 07, 2025
E16: Countdown #91: Bulova Time (1941)
"It was a big goddammed deal!" For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100...
00:09:50
November 30, 2025
E15: Countdown #92: Standards
Despite RCA's plunge at the New York World's Fair in the spring of 1939, the FCC proceeded cautiously before setting signal standards for the...
00:09:14
November 23, 2025
E14: Countdown #93: Play Ball!
For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years...
00:07:31
November 16, 2025
E13: Countdown #94: Now We Add Sight To Sound - 1939
If David Sarnoff can be recalled for any single ambition, it is his desire to be remembered as the man who singlehandedly delivered television...
00:11:19
November 09, 2025
E12: Countdown #95: Britain, 1936
Despite the tremendous engineering strides made in the decade after its invention, by 1936 the commercial adoption of television in the United States remained...
00:12:33
November 02, 2025
E11: Countdown #96: Berlin, 1936
In addition to providing a showcase for Aryan Supremacy, Adolph Hitler's grand plan for the 1936 Berlin Olympics included demonstrating Nazi Germany's technical expertise...
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