Elvis Duran Quotes

The new national campfire - radio.

Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world.

I had the little Radio Shack crystal radio, and then my aunt Judy bought me a shortwave radio. It was amazing to me: like on these really clear nights - I lived in Ohio - I could get Texas or Florida. You felt like the world was a smaller place.

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.

Radio has no future. Wireless [telegraphy] is all very well but I'd rather send a message by a boy on a pony

You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.

I remember attaching a wire clothing hanger to the antenna of my radio in my bedroom, so I could get the frequency and get that station and listen to the top 10 every night.

I went into radio in 1965 when I got a license for CJOR 600 AM. It was my second business.

Radio is in my blood.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.

I've got a radio that occasionally I listen to. It's portable. It's got an antenna. I've put a piece of aluminum foil on it that gives me a little bit better reception. And a refrigerator.

I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.

As far as the radio waves part of the spectrum, we can do these adequately from the ground because the atmosphere is basically transparent to our radio waves.

In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.

I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

I went in, and there, in the front room, a converted bedroom, sat the first radio I had ever seen. The equipment was so bulky that it took up one entire wall of the bedroom. The set, which could send or receive signals, was tuned to KDKA in Pittsburgh, and I remember being completely flabbergasted at the thought of sounds coming from that box.

There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.

I've always been fascinated with radio and broadcasting. I did fake radio shows as a kid, where I was a DJ and stuff like that.

One thing that I can tell you that we have not done very well is to build in broadcast capability into the network, and we don't take advantage of broadcast radio.

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.