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For your convenience and enrichment, here are
a few hyperlinks to other pertinent resources.

  1. A Broadcast Engineer in Korea—1957 by John D. Harmer

  2. AEA (Audio Engineering Associates)

  3. AES (The Audio Engineering Society)

  4. AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists)

  5. ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers)

  6. Audio Literature Time Machine (eBay Store specializing in
    RCA Microphone Manuals, Bags, and Advertisements)


  7. The Audities Foundation (A non-profit corporation dedicated to the
    preservation of electronic musical instruments, recording technology
    and associated documentation for the arts)


  8. BCMICS (Western Historic Radio Museum)

  9. BEA (The Broadcast Education Association)

  10. BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.)

  11. Classic Microphones (The Bert van Oortmarssen collection)

  12. Collectors Weekly (The microphone collection section)

  13. Communication Pioneers Biographical Dictionary

  14. Czechoslovakian Microphone Museum

  15. Dorrough Electronics (Be sure to press “PLAY”)

  16. ENAK Microphone Repair

  17. Federal Communications Commission

  18. Harmonica Masterclass (Vintage Blues Harmonica Microphone Museum)

  19. HRTS (Hollywood Radio and Television Society)

  20. KPCS (The story of how and when KPCC got its start)

  21. Lloyd Budhram’s Microphone Classics

  22. Los Angeles Radio People (Industry rumors and gossip)

  23. Microphone Sensitivity Conversion (International standards
    have established 1 Pascal as 94 dB-SPL)


  24. The Microphone Vault (Contemporary and vintage microphone archives)

  25. Monitor (A tribute to Monitor, NBC’s weekend program
    that aired from June 12, 1955 to January 26, 1975)


  26. NAB (National Association of Broadcasters)

  27. NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants)
    (also known as the International Music Products Association)

  28. Neumann’s history of its microphones

  29. Old Radio Broadcasting Equipment and Memories
    (A history of the BBC’s Broadcasting House)


  30. Old Time Radio: Radio Days (Source for the history of
    nostalgic and old time radio series and news)


  31. Red Blanchard’s Old-Time Radio Reminiscing

  32. SBE (The Society of Broadcast Engineers)

  33. SESAC (The Society of European Stage Authors and Composers)

  34. SGA (The Songwriters Guild of America)

  35. SMPTE (The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers)

  36. Southern California Broadcasters Association Job Alert Newsletter

  37. Silvia Classics Microphone Restoration

  38. The Turner Microphone Story Courtesy of Eric Braun

  39. Vintage Broadcast Microphones (Downloadable microphone data sheets)

  40. Vitaphone Varieties: “Observations on Film, Music and Imagery of the Past”

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