Radio News

In 1904 Hugo Gernsback established Electro Importing Company to sell radio components and electrical supplies by mail order.

The catalogs had detailed instructions on projects like a wireless telegraph outfit and were the predecessor of his first magazine, Modern Electrics (April 1908).

During the First World War the US government placed a ban on amateur radio and Gernsback led the campaign to lift it.

On February 20, 1929 an involuntary petition of bankruptcy was filed against Experimenter Publishing and the April 1929 issue of Radio News was the last to feature Hugo Gernsback as editor.

[1] Arthur H. Lynch dropped the forecasting of things to come and provided the technical information to design, service, and operate radio equipment.

[2] Laurence Cockaday became the editor; the format remained the same but the advances in radio and television broadened the topics covered.

The cover has a full color picture of Lucille Ball and an additional 20 pages of gossip and radio star coverage.

The great advances in electronics during World War II were finally available to consumers and industry in the late 1940s.

[6] His 23-year-old son, William B. Ziff, Jr., was a philosophy student at the University of Heidelberg but he immersed himself into the magazine business.

Initially Oliver Read was the editor of both Radio & Television News and Popular Electronics.

Electronics World had a section devoted to repair and John T. Frye wrote a monthly column, "Mac's Service Shop".

The April 1963 issue has a 6 page article, "Electronics in Banking", that explains in detail how the magnetic numbers on the bottom of checks would be read into computers.

[9] The changes in the editorial staff during this time induced many of their authors to start writing for their competitor, Radio-Electronics.

In September 1973 Radio Electronics published Don Lancaster's TV Typewriter, a low cost video display.

In July 1974 Radio Electronics published the Mark-8 Personal Minicomputer based on the Intel 8008 processor.