Try writing your local radio station and complain. When this strip came out that might actually have worked. Today…. don’t bother. The local station is probably owned by someone out of Boston, or NYC, or Chicago, or LA, or Atlanta, or New Orleans, or just about any major metropolitan city where they don’t care what the people where you are want to listen to.
Yeah, corp-radio sucks….thank goodness for the community radio (3 choices!) in my neck o’ the woods. Not always my cup of tea, but at least it’s local…..’bout half the time, I know the deejay!
Just turn your dial to 91.9 FM and slowly scan down toward 88.1. That’s the part of the FM spectrum that’s reserved for non-commercial stations…if you can get past all the NPR and religious channels who’ve started hogging the noncom airwaves, you’ve got a chance at hearing music you’ve never heard before played by people who don’t earn a living as DJs. I’ve been a DJ at both commercial and noncom stations. The money’s in commercial but the fun and creativity is at the noncom end.
Radio tubes. Memories. They all had a 35W4, 50C5, 12BA6, 12BE6, and a 12AV6. I once worked on a deluxe 6-tuber that also had a 12AT6. Of course, you had to spray the variable condenser occasionally so you could keep the tuning smooth. I would stick a wire on to the wound interior antenna that was usually inside the removable back panel so I could bring in a few stations.
Funny how I can remember all of that, but I temporarily don’t remember what I had for supper last night.
If Charlie Brown was listening in the afternoon it was in the period of the soap operas. No kid is going to be happy listening to “The Guiding Light,” “John’s Other Family,” “Backstage Wife” or “Ma Perkins.” He wants “The Lone Ranger,” Jack Armstrong, All-American Boy" and “The Adventures of Superman.”
Linux0s over 9 years ago
I bet there’s a bad tube or loose connection now.
Templo S.U.D. over 9 years ago
Trying moving to a different part of the country or world, Charlie Brown, and maybe you’ll find a good radio program.
knight1192a over 9 years ago
Try writing your local radio station and complain. When this strip came out that might actually have worked. Today…. don’t bother. The local station is probably owned by someone out of Boston, or NYC, or Chicago, or LA, or Atlanta, or New Orleans, or just about any major metropolitan city where they don’t care what the people where you are want to listen to.
artybee over 9 years ago
I am so sick of hearing Led Zeppelin that I could cry, and I used to like them. Thanks, packaged radio.
orinoco womble over 9 years ago
These days even specialty programmes are pre-programmed on disc. If it’s an evening slot, there’s probably no one in the studio at all.
wiselad over 9 years ago
if you only had kept kicking radios, you might have been able to kick footballs later on
Kali39 over 9 years ago
Jack Benny is on Sunday nights at 7, Charlie Brown.
Doctor Go over 9 years ago
Listening to Rush Limbaugh again?
Neo Stryder over 9 years ago
I wonder if he’ll kick the TV too.
Darryl Heine over 9 years ago
Now in Summer months TV doesn’t have good programs.
posstockhoarder over 9 years ago
Wow! Charlie Brown was a punk in those early days!
meillered over 9 years ago
It’s like reading a history book.
VICTOR PROULX over 9 years ago
I wonder what tubes in a radio conger up to a 10 year old today.
grumper13 over 9 years ago
Yeah, corp-radio sucks….thank goodness for the community radio (3 choices!) in my neck o’ the woods. Not always my cup of tea, but at least it’s local…..’bout half the time, I know the deejay!
Guilty Bystander over 9 years ago
Just turn your dial to 91.9 FM and slowly scan down toward 88.1. That’s the part of the FM spectrum that’s reserved for non-commercial stations…if you can get past all the NPR and religious channels who’ve started hogging the noncom airwaves, you’ve got a chance at hearing music you’ve never heard before played by people who don’t earn a living as DJs. I’ve been a DJ at both commercial and noncom stations. The money’s in commercial but the fun and creativity is at the noncom end.
Max Starman Jones over 9 years ago
Radio tubes. Memories. They all had a 35W4, 50C5, 12BA6, 12BE6, and a 12AV6. I once worked on a deluxe 6-tuber that also had a 12AT6. Of course, you had to spray the variable condenser occasionally so you could keep the tuning smooth. I would stick a wire on to the wound interior antenna that was usually inside the removable back panel so I could bring in a few stations.
Funny how I can remember all of that, but I temporarily don’t remember what I had for supper last night.
Mikel V over 9 years ago
Fortunately for him, unfortunately for us, Charles Schulz didn’t live to witness the age of “Reality TV”
Jimmi440 over 9 years ago
Hah. Tubes.
neverenoughgold over 9 years ago
Try reading a good book, Charlie…
rwg1957rwg over 9 years ago
Compare this CB to the one in todays Classic Peanuts strip. Big difference.
Scott S over 9 years ago
Can you even get vacuum tubes anymore?
Kali39 over 9 years ago
Celebrate radio, Charlie Brownhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGwRXjzzBCs
Whatever happened to common sense? over 9 years ago
And in the 64 years since this strip was first published it hasn’t changed. It’s actually gotten worse.
Esnyder212 over 9 years ago
Then don’t use it.
bmckee over 9 years ago
If Charlie Brown was listening in the afternoon it was in the period of the soap operas. No kid is going to be happy listening to “The Guiding Light,” “John’s Other Family,” “Backstage Wife” or “Ma Perkins.” He wants “The Lone Ranger,” Jack Armstrong, All-American Boy" and “The Adventures of Superman.”
comicsman47 over 9 years ago
…and when your radio stopped working, you would go to the drugstore and use the Tube Tester – wow, drugstores actually sold replacement tubes!