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Date: 11/15/2016 10:18 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2016 : Issue 74
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      old time radio dealers                [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 13:48:29 -0500
    From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
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    Subject:  old time radio dealers

    Walden asked:

>     I was wondering how many old time dealers we still have
>     in the business that started in the 1970s?

    I'm still around. Satellite Media Production. This is a business I
    started in 1956 as a recording studio while I was still in high
    school. In the early 1970's I saw an ad in Audio Magazine for OTR
    shows for sale and I put one in myself. Through that ad I came in
    contact with about a dozen other OTR collectors and I took my small
    collection of 150 radio programs that I had recorded off the air to
    about 3,000 shows by trading with other collectors.

    Today,  have no idea how many programs I have. There are still reel
    to reel tapes sitting around that I've yet to transfer to CD. In the
    mid 1970's Hy Garder somehow heard about my company and ran a short
    article about me in his newspaper column and then later republished
    that in a book he wrote. Between article and the book I soon had
    inquires from over 1000 people asking about my programs.

    That was then. Today I still get some orders for radio shows from a
    few customers. One even wanted them on cassette and I offered him all
    kinds of incentives to change his order to CDs. But he wanted
    cassettes, so I dusted off my cassette duplicator and dubbed the
    cassettes. Took a while to find cassette labels, but I did find some
    on a top shelve. I even found a box of brand new C-60 cassettes.

    And if anyone wants a carton containing 500 blank new audio
    cassettes, I could make them a good deal.

    When the mp3 craze started, a few friends suggested that I don't
    convert my library to mp3. They said this would allow my collection
    to end up on the Internet and my sales would go down. So I just kept
    them in the audio CD format. I still sell audio CDs at the
    conventions I go to. Not everyone wants mp3.

    But sales are nowhere where they were in the 70's and 80's. Today our
    biggest sales are old movies and old TV shows.

    Our local newspaper did an article on my wife and I since this is our
    companies 60th year in business. The link to that newspaper is here.
    Our article is on page 14.

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    Fred

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