when did radio shack change to the source
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title: Radio shack text: Radio shack A radio shack is a room or structure used for housing radio equipment. During radio's early days, equipment was experimental and often home-built. The first radio transmitters used a loud spark gap to generate radio waves, and so were often housed in a separate outbuilding or shed. When radio was first adopted by the U.S. Navy, a small, wooden structure placed on deck to house the ship's radio equipment became known as the "radio shack". Today, a radio shack can be anywhere that radio equipment is housed and operated, usually a room such as with amateur radio stations, title: The Source (retailer) text: The Source (retailer) The Source (Bell) Electronics Inc., doing business as The Source (), is a Canadian consumer electronics and cell phone retail chain. The chain goes back over 40 years in Canada, initially as Radio Shack and later as The Source by Circuit City. The Source is now owned by BCE Inc., which purchased the assets of InterTAN from its parent, American retailer Circuit City, in 2009. The Source is a unit of 4458729 Canada Inc. and is based in Barrie, Ontario. The Source began as the Canadian branch of Radio Shack (later "RadioShack"). The chain was originally owned title: Radio in the United States text: Pressured by complaints from the newspapers, in early 1933 the three major news-wire services, AP, UP, and INS, announced they would no longer allow radio stations to use their stories. In response, in March 1934 the radio industry established its own news-gathering agency, Transradio Press Service. By 1935 the major wire services had relented, and began supplying their services to subscribing radio stations. Radio's instant, on-the-spot reports of dramatic events drew large audiences starting in 1938 in the run-up to World War II, and played a major role during the conflict. All broadcasting stations are licensed to individual localities, and title: Radio in the United States text: a rule change to allow AM stations to rebroadcast their programming over FM band translators. In 2017, the FCC eliminated an eighty year old requirement that radio stations had to maintain a studio in or near their "community of license". "Abridged from U.S. State Department IIP publications and other U.S. government materials." Radio in the United States Radio broadcasting in the United States has been used since the early 1920s to distribute news and entertainment to a national audience. It was the first electronic "mass medium" technology, and its introduction, along with the subsequent development of sound movies, ended the title: RadioShack text: federal government review, the company sold off the few remaining Allied retail stores and resumed using the Radio Shack name. Allied Electronics, the firm's industrial component operation, continued as a Tandy division until it was sold to Spartan Manufacturing in 1981. The longest-running product for Radio Shack was the AM-only Realistic Flavoradio, sold from 1972 to 1986, 15 years in the same design. This also made the Flavoradio the longest production run in radio history. Originally released in 6 colors or flavors, strawberry, orange, lemon, avocado, blueberry and grape, the line grew to eleven flavors. They were made in Korea,