Table radio

[1][2][3] Though generally compact in design, table radios are not necessarily intended to be portable in the manner of a boom box.

[3] Although some households owned one or more sophisticated table radios or console models with shortwave and radio-phonograph combinations as early as the 1920s, table radios offered in various cabinet materials and designs at an assortment of prices from $10 to over $100 proliferated in the 1930s.

Volume increased after World War II, and accounted for almost two thirds of all sets produced in the US in 1946.

Lower performance standards resulted in declining sound quality, especially in early all-transistor sets.

The popularity of television led to the table radio's decline as the primary means to receive news and entertainment in a communal or family setting, and their increasing use in individual or personal settings.