page_title: Radio News
section_title: Electronics World
hierarchical_section_title: Radio News / Electronics World
caption_attribution_description: English: Electronics World, September 1959, Volume 62 Number 3. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. Publisher: Oliver Read, Editor: Wm. A. Stocklin, Technical Editor: Milton S Snitzer. This 8.5 by 11.25 inch (21.6 by 28.6 cm) magazine had 160 pages and over 120 advertisers. The net paid circulation (Jan-June 1959) was 244,660. Many Ziff-Davis magazines would have two 6 issue volumes a year. Volume 61 was January to June 1959, volume 62 was July to December 1959. Cover Story: Compact Two-Tube Stereo Amplifier. J. Augeri and D. Crhistansen, CBS Electronics. Radio News was founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1919 and acquired by Ziff-Davis in 1938. The name was changed to Radio &amp; Television News in August 1948, to Radio &amp; TV News in May 1957 and to Electronics World in May 1959. It was merged into Popular Electronics in January 1972.
context_page_description: Radio News was an American monthly technology magazine published from 1919 to 1971. The magazine was started by Hugo Gernsback as a magazine for amateur radio enthusiasts, but it evolved to cover all the technical aspects to radio and electronics. In 1929 a bankruptcy forced the sale of Gernsback's publishing company to B. A. Mackinnon. In 1938 Ziff-Davis Publishing acquired the magazines.
context_section_description: Ziff-Davis Publishing would develop two categories of magazines; the professional magazine such as Radio & Television News and the leisure time magazines like Popular Photography. In October 1954, Popular Electronics was created for the hobbyist market. It became the largest selling electronics magazine, 250,000 copies per month by 1957 and 450,000 copies by 1965. Initially Oliver Read was the editor of both Radio & Television News and Popular Electronics. Soon Oliver P. Ferrell took over as editor of Popular Electronics and Wm. A. Stocklin as editor of Radio & Television News.
  The title Radio & TV News was changed Electronics World in May 1959 to reflect the expanding field of electronics. The feature stories were often on the newest technology and at a sophisticated level. Some examples: "Melting Silicon for Semiconductors" (May 1959), "Computer Arithmetic Circuits" (June 1961), and "Binary Computer Codes and ASCII" (July 1964.) There were also articles on audio and video consumer electronics, communications systems, automotive and industrial electronics.
  In 1960, most of the consumer audio, radio and television devices used vacuum tubes. These sets required frequent repair so there was a Radio/TV repair shop in every neighborhood. Electronics World had a section devoted to repair and John T. Frye wrote a monthly column, "Mac's Service Shop". A large portion of the advertisements were directed at the service industry.
  The April 1963 issue has a 6 page article, "Electronics in Banking", that explains in detail how the magnetic numbers on the bottom of checks would be read into computers. It also has the first article written by Don Lancaster, "Solid-State 3-Channel Color Organ".
caption: Radio News became Electronics World in 1959.
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