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==Other meanings== ===Boston residences=== {{Further|North End, Boston}} In 1923, ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' reported that a section of [[Boston]]'s [[North End, Boston|North End]] had been dubbed "Radio Row" because of its many radio antennas. "The [[hurdy-gurdy]] has a rival," wrote the ''Globe''. "No skyline anywhere else in the city or the suburbs is filled with so many antennae<!--Sic. This is a direct quotation, so please do not make any "corrections"---> as the blocks stretching along some sections of Hanover and Salem sts. Many residents have three or four aerials—one has six—with wires leading down to receiving sets of all descriptions, in the homes of the foreign-born residents. It has all come about in a few months....All stairways lead to the roof, where [some residents] are arranging to rig up a loudspeaker, connected with instruments below. A survey of housetops...shows a whole population getting ready."<ref>Cullinan, Howell (1923), ''The Boston Globe,'' May 6, 1923, p. A5.</ref> ===Cleveland stores=== A section of [[Downtown Cleveland]] along Prospect Ave. from [[East 4th Street District (Cleveland)|East 4th]] to East 9th Street was known as "Radio Row", according to ''[[The Plain Dealer]]'' in 1928.<ref>{{cite news|title=Radio Crowd Sad as Yankees Win|publisher=[[The Plain Dealer]]|date=October 5, 1928 |page=12}}</ref> ===Los Angeles broadcasting === In [[Los Angeles]] during the 1940s and 1950s, "Radio Row" referred to the area near the intersection of [[Sunset Boulevard]] and [[Vine Street]] in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], where all four major radio networks had broadcasting facilities.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/192602063/?terms=%22radio%2Brow%22%2Bsunset&match=1 |title=Hollywood Loses Its Last Radio Station |page=10 |work=The Los Angeles Times |via=Newspapers.com |date=2005-08-11 |accessdate=2022-06-05}}</ref> ===Philadelphia stores=== {{Further|Arch Street (Philadelphia)}} In the 1950s and 1960s, [[Philadelphia]]'s [[Arch Street (Philadelphia)|Arch Street]] from 6th to 11th Streets was known as Radio Row, after its electronic-goods stores.<ref name="phillyhistory">{{cite web | url=http://www.phillyhistory.org/blog/index.php/2007/05/i-remember-arch-street/ | title=I Remember Arch Street | publisher=City of Philadelphia | work=PhillyHistory blog | date=May 2, 2007 | access-date=July 2, 2014 | author=Kushnier, Ron}}</ref> ===Media event broadcasting=== [[File:Pat Kirwan, JJ Watt, Jim Miller, Feb 2019.jpg|thumb|A broadcast from [[Super Bowl LIII]] Radio Row in February 2019]] Radio Row may also refer to a large grouping of [[sports talk|sports]] [[talk radio]] stations that broadcast from the [[Super Bowl]] media center during the week before the annual major [[American football|football]] game.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schonbrun |first=Zach |date=2014-01-30 |title=Before Big Game, Stepping Into Media's Big Top on Radio Row |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/30/sports/football/before-big-game-stepping-into-medias-big-top.html |access-date=2023-02-22 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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