A few years later, Sony established itself as the market leader in the USA. It was also the first 'shirt pocket' radio. Texas Instruments, in the United States, marketed the first transistor radio, the Regency TR1 for Christmas 1954. Made construction of smaller-sized electronic circuits possible. Tube, as an electronic component that could amplify sound.Īs well as the transistor, the printed circuit board (PCB), which was developed in the Second World War, Regency TR1, the world's first transistor radio Joe Haupt from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The invention of the transistor Many radios from the 1950s and 1960s show a host of exotic foreign stations on the dial. It was also possible to receive many other overseas stations on AM in the UK. However, many pop listeners tuned intoįoreign stations, particularly Radio Luxembourg and the pirate stations in the middle years of the 1960s. The BBC did play some pop music on the Light Programme and Radio 1 started in 1967. There was only BBC national and regional radio. In the 1960s there were no commercial stations in the UK. You could receive a large number of overseas broadcasts in the UK in the 1960s.
Radio broadcasts in the 1960sĭial from a McMichael M103BT Personal transistor radio c1961. Regimes in Europe, Africa and Asia, it was the only way to find out what was really going on. Radio helped people throughout the world keep in touch with news and opinions. Far Eastern imports from Hong Kong drove the price drop and squeezed out UK manufacturers. In the 1960s its price dropped making itĪffordable to teenagers.
In the late 1950s, the transistor radio was an expensive novelty. Outdoors, in the street, in the park or at the beach. Young people used transistor radios to listen to music If there was one object that defined the sixties, it was the transistor A selection of UK market imported pocket transistor radios from the 1960s.
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