[Jeffhs]

If there had been a big band or nostalgia radio station in their area (or if he could have used a small AM low-power transmitter to broadcast mp3s, CDs, or even audio cassette tapes of old radio shows to his antique radio), he might have kept the radio downstairs, rather than relegating it to the attic again.

It seems very strange, IMO, to be hearing today's rock noise coming from a 1930s-vintage cathedral radio. One of the worst mistakes, again IMO, the previous owners of a former Music of Your Life (nostalgia) radio station in Cleveland ever made about eight years ago was to install a 50kW transmitter, then, shortly thereafter (and I mean shortly, as in a week or so later) dropping the MoYL format for ESPN sports. MoYL has never been heard in northeastern Ohio since then (on AM anyway), although there is a nostalgia FM station at 91.5, operated by a schoiol district in the next county south of here, and there are other nostalgia stations on AM in nearby cities, so one can still find older music on the AM dial -- it just takes some looking around. There is a station, for example, in suburban Youngstown, Ohio (not far from Pittsburgh and 80-90 miles from Cleveland) on 1390 that comes in well at my home 35 miles from Cleveland, that plays big-band and nostalgia music, and then there's CFZM-AM "Zoomer Radio" AM740 in Toronto, so the big band/nostalgia format on AM radio isn't dead yet.