We’ve been busy here getting back into the swing of things. Most importantly, you’ll find our first issue of 2014 on stands now (having trouble finding a vendor where you live? Give us a call). And, a little more sadly, we’re back to our non-holiday lives. The silver lining, however, is this: we’ve completely resumed…
365 days. 246 blog posts. Fifty-one issues. Fifty-two radio broadcasts. Thousands of ads and hundreds of new advertisers. We’ve been pretty busy – it was one heck of a year! 2013 was not only our 45th year in business, it was also the year that brought completely free advertising – as of November 26, 2013…
On this day in 1958, something pretty special took to the air. Quite literally, in fact: the first communications satellite, called SCORE (Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment), was launched. While orbiting, the satellite broadcast a Christmas message from President Dwight D. Eisenhower via short wave radio. It proved for the first time that such…
This post, that is. We’re hoping that you’re adapting well to Sunday’s time change. We spent a considerable amount of time bumping all our clocks back one hour, and while we were doing so, it got us thinking: did we create a time warp? When you place an ad with us, we get that ad…
Oh, sure. Joke about snipe hunting. Go ahead – we’ll wait (though we think you can tell by the disapproving glance of our friend pictured above that he’s a little tired of being considered as fictitious as the Tooth Fairy or Sasquatch). While the hunt for the elusive snipe is something akin to a wild…
Did you know that English has the largest vocabulary of any language on earth? it’s estimated that our language contains around 800,000 words, and the average English speaker uses about 60,000 of those words. That may seem like a rather puny percentage, but when you think about it, it’s actually pretty impressive: many of those…
Or maybe it isn’t. We don’t know for sure. But we do know that there has been a piano on the air. And an antique cooler. And both of them sold. You probably already know that we invite you to join us live on the air every Saturday morning. We’d love you to call Paper…
Stop. Pause. Rewind. Tinker with the space-time continuum (well, sort of). If you miss a Saturday morning broadcast of Paper Shop Live!, there’s always the not-so-live version: the podcast. It’s not only a chance to catch up if you missed the show, it’s also a great way to get any details or contact information you…
And the FM, too. When you tune in to catch Paper Shop Live! on Saturday mornings, we can be found in a few spots on the dial: 96.1 and 100.1 FM and 630 and 1240AM. While we’re happy that we’re easy to find, we wondered what the difference is between AM and FM radio. We…
We know, we know. For some of us, it just takes a little time (and a bit of caffeine) get from a pre-alarm dozing state to our usual on-the-ball selves. So it’s not all that surprising that we might miss a detail or two of Saturday’s broadcast of Paper Shop Live! It happens. Even if…