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Originally Posted by StainlessS
Wow, you must be ancient
When I was a kid, my mother had [in the kitchen] a 5 band radio that had FM, and could pick up airplanes, taxi's, police, and even TV audio.
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FM broadcasting[wikipedia]:- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_broadcasting
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It would have been more accurate to say nobody was broadcasting.
I don't think my portable player had an FM receiver, but the first... cough... Hi Fi system I owned did. Remember when a Hi Fi system was made up of individual components? You bought an amplifier, a tuner, a turntable, a cassette player etc, but at some stage manufactures started combining them into "3-in-1" units. They eased us into it though by putting everything in a single box and designing it so it still looked like individual components, but wasn't. My first Hi Fi system was one of those. It did have an FM receiver but for the first year or so there weren't any FM stations broadcasting.
Apparently EON FM launched sometime during the year I turned 16. I would have said it was a couple of years later, but Wikipedia says it wasn't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeli...adio#1980-1989