Talk shows through the ages

[Roger Kirk]

Maureen Carney wrote:
 >And knowing how some station owners behave if it cost more than 50 
cents they wouldn't
 >have been interested even if the technology was available.

One station owner (on the North Shore) when told by his engineer that 
their only cart machine needed a transistor (and could he buy one), he 
told the engineer "just take one of the transistors out of my personal 
pocket transistor radio."