The DC Traveler

There are over 40 Washington, DC radio stations within listening distance to downtown.  Most DC-based radio transmitter towers are shorter than in most cities, since most are located on shorter buildings or in the suburbs. This causes reception to be poor. It is partially because Washington, DC allows no buildings to be built that are taller than the tip of the statute on the Capitol Building (228 feet), other than the Washington Monument (555 feet).
The tallest radio/TV tower (also the tallest structure) in the District is located at 6001 Georgia Ave., at 9th and Peabody Streets, NW. At 761 feet …read more

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Have you been lusting over one of the latest high-def, wide-screen, uber high-tech plasma televisions?
Less than one hundred years ago, people looked at home radios the same way.
Want to see where it all started? At the Radio and Television Museum in suburban Bowie, Maryland, you can step back in time and see some of the earliest home radios and televisions.
In the early 1900s, inventors tested and played with technology that would transmit not just sound, but also an image over the air. It took another 20 years to learn to transmit a signal with enough quality that …read more

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