POPULAR RADIO was a magazine about setting up and listening to and enjoying radio broadcasts during the formative years of the 1920's. It aimed at a broader market than the technically oriented magazines published by Gernsback, but was more about the hardware than about the stars or the programs.
For most of its run its covers were stylized radio-related graphics, against a background of silver-colored ink. This kind of cover is impossible to reproduce correctly on a computer screen, but we've tried. We've tried several different ways. Give us some slack.
POPULAR RADIO ran from May, 1922, until May 1928. In late 1925 it absorbed THE WIRELESS AGE, another radio-related magazine which had been founded in 1913. In the last two issues it tried to cover the early, abortive beginnings of television, adding "AND TELEVISION" to its title. According to Steve Davis, the last issues used better paper and more expensive two-color layouts, and we assume production costs went up. Content was somewhere between consumer and technical experimenter, and may have been too technical for one and not technical enough for the other. Perhaps they guessed wrong when they focused it on television; the last issue announces television articles for the June issue that was never published. A subscription ad in the last (May) issue offers special deals for new subscribers, including 5 months for a dollar or 7 months for $1.25 -- and that may be a sign of a cash-flow problem.
For most of its run its covers were stylized radio-related graphics, against a background of silver-colored ink. This kind of cover is impossible to reproduce correctly on a computer screen, but we've tried. We've tried several different ways. Give us some slack.
POPULAR RADIO ran from May, 1922, until May 1928. In late 1925 it absorbed THE WIRELESS AGE, another radio-related magazine which had been founded in 1913. In the last two issues it tried to cover the early, abortive beginnings of television, adding "AND TELEVISION" to its title. According to Steve Davis, the last issues used better paper and more expensive two-color layouts, and we assume production costs went up. Content was somewhere between consumer and technical experimenter, and may have been too technical for one and not technical enough for the other. Perhaps they guessed wrong when they focused it on television; the last issue announces television articles for the June issue that was never published. A subscription ad in the last (May) issue offers special deals for new subscribers, including 5 months for a dollar or 7 months for $1.25 -- and that may be a sign of a cash-flow problem.

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Popular Radio 1922-05
2595 visits
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Popular Radio 1922-06
2170 visits
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Popular Radio 1922-07
1930 visits
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Popular Radio 1922-08
3066 visits
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Popular Radio 1922-09
3247 visits
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Popular Radio 1922-10
3349 visits
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Popular Radio 1922-11
1693 visits
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Popular Radio 1922-12
3666 visits
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Popular Radio 1923-01
3776 visits
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Popular Radio 1923-02
3108 visits
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Popular Radio 1923-03
2459 visits
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Popular Radio 1923-04
3157 visits
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Popular Radio 1923-05
3494 visits
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Popular Radio 1923-06
3157 visits
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Popular Radio 1923-07
3024 visits
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Popular Radio 1923-08
2157 visits
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Popular Radio 1923-11
2552 visits
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Popular Radio 1923-12
1963 visits
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Popular Radio 1924-01
2789 visits
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Popular Radio 1924-02
2478 visits
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Popular Radio 1924-03
2603 visits
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Popular Radio 1924-04
2625 visits
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Popular Radio 1924-05
1349 visits
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Popular Radio 1924-07
2761 visits
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Popular Radio 1924-09
2570 visits
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Popular Radio 1924-10
2674 visits
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Popular Radio 1924-11
2637 visits
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Popular Radio 1924-12
2156 visits
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Popular Radio 1925-01
2617 visits
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Popular Radio 1925-02
2419 visits
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Popular Radio 1925-03
2259 visits
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Popular Radio 1925-07
1930 visits
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Popular Radio 1925-08
3062 visits
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Popular Radio 1925-08: Wireless Age Is Merged In
1242 visits
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Popular Radio 1925-10
2975 visits
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Popular Radio 1925-11
1352 visits
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Popular Radio 1925-12
1252 visits
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Popular Radio 1926-01
2931 visits
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Popular Radio 1926-02
1999 visits
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Popular Radio 1926-03
2585 visits
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Popular Radio 1926-04
2706 visits
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Popular Radio 1926-08
2641 visits
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Popular Radio 1926-11
3003 visits
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Popular Radio 1927-03
552 visits
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Popular Radio 1927-06
2378 visits
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Popular Radio 1927-07+08
1412 visits
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Popular Radio 1927-09
2408 visits
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Popular Radio 1927-11
2605 visits
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Popular Radio 1928-02
2177 visits
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Popular Radio 1928-03
1669 visits
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Popular Radio 1928-04
1582 visits
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Popular Radio 1928-05
3852 visits