Word: cb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...darkened motion-picture house, to the home of private television sets, each twinkling in a different room for a different member of the family - these are the natural progressions of technology. Each of us will have his personal machine, adjusted, focused and preselected for his private taste. CB radio now has begun to provide every citizen with his own broadcasting and receiving station. Each of us will be in danger of being suffocated by our own tastes. Moreover, these devices that enlarge our sight and vision in space seem somehow to imprison us in the present. The electronic technology that...
...high-volume sales of Citizens Band radios received another boost on New Year's Day, when a Federal Communications Commission ruling that delighted CB bugs went into effect. The FCC authorized the use of 17 more channels to supplement the 23 already crowded by 7.8 million licensed CBers. Although retailing biggies like Sears, Roebuck will gain much from demand for the new, higher-capacity radios, the firm that stands to benefit most is a fast-growing Texas-based chain of consumer electronics stores called Radio Shack...
...ubiquitous (more than 5,000 U.S. and Canadian outlets) Radio Shack claims 15% of the market in Citizens Band radio equipment; CB enthusiasts accounted for almost 25% of the chain's $742 million in revenues last year. Experts forecast sales this year of at least ten million of the new CB models, and Radio Shack is set to take home to its parent, Tandy Corp. of Fort Worth, an increasing share of the industry's profits. With its sales of hi-fi and stereo equipment also booming, the chain is expanding at a pace that puts it further and further...
...talks with a kind of cultivated Texas swagger. "If they don't want to do that, then beat it. Let them work for Sears." The system has produced managers such as C.L. Whitfield of the Guam Radio Shack, who journeyed to Japan to pick up new 40-channel CB radios so he could be the first to sell them on U.S. soil Jan. 1?which was still Dec. 31 on the mainland...
...Europe and Japan are faring so poorly that Tandy has put a freeze on expansion there. But overall, the outlook is bright. Electronics buffs say Radio Shack's products are reasonably priced and of good quality. As CBers clamor for new 40-channel "ears," Tandy can relish his own CB "handle": Mr. Lucky...