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Walkman


The Sony Walkman personal stereo was a transistorized miniature portable cassette tape player invented by Akio Morita, Masaru Ibuka, and Kozo Ohsone, manufactured by Sony Corporation. The first Sony Walkman stereo was sold in 1979. The name Walkman was invented by Akio Morita. A German inventor, Andreas Pavel, claimed that he had came up with a similar device called a Stereobelt back in 1977. After court battles, Pavel and Sony came to an out of court settlement in 1999. The original blue-and-silver Walkman model TPS-L2 went on sale in Japan on July 1, 1979. In the UK, it was launched at the London rooftop nightclub Regines as the Sony Stowaway, a name withdrawn within three months of its first public appearance outside Japan in May 1980. In the United States, it was originally called the Sony Soundabout, but this too was eventually replaced by "Walkman". In Sweden, the name Freestyle was used. Offering the ability for people to carry their own choice of music with them, the Walkman stereo was one of the most successful new consumer product introductions of the 1980s. Hit pop songs were written about it ("Wired for Sound" by Cliff Richard), hundreds of clones flooded the marketplace, and they quickly became ubiquitous amongst urban pedestrians and commuters. It was often linked to the jogging fad while Sony marketing also underlined its suitability for roller-skating. Sony has sold more than 330 million Walkman stereos worldwide, including approximately 150 million in the US. The original Walkman was based on the Pressman, a business-oriented portable cassette recorder. While retaining the general form, the recording capability was replaced with stereo playback and two mini headphone jacks so two people could listen at the same time (though it came with only one pair of headphones). Where the Pressman had the recording button, the Walkman had a "hotline" button which activated a small built-in microphone (retained from the Pressman), partially overriding

Walkman


Does anyone know the original list price of the Sony Walkman? :This pagehttp://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~an4t-tkns/taro/walkman/1979.htm says it was Y33,000 in Japan, which at the time was around $130. -- Paul Richter 12:27, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC) In the UK, the original blue-and-silver, two headphone Walkman (Stowaway) retailed at £99. --Pete 14:32, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC) The real Inventor of "Walkman" is Andreas Pavel: http://www.applereport.com/apple/german-inventor-may-sue-a.html Can anyone provide a picture of an early cassette based walkman? I think that an image of an MD walkman is unsuitable.--Malcohol 12:53, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC) I most heartily agree. I changed the picture ... HarS jan. 26, 2005 :Shouldn't it be mentioned that the term "wWalkman" is often used for all kinds of portable music machines, even when they aren't manufactured by Sony?

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Sony Walkman SRFS84S/SRF-S84 Silver 'pocket radio'/'miniature radio'. Taken 31 May 2005.
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    Power FM 98.1 FM


    Power FM 98.1 is a local radio station in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia. It is based in Muswellbrook, and serves listeners in Muswellbrook, Singleton, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Merriwa, Murrurundi and surrounding areas. Its official callsign is 2VLY (2 is the New South Wales prefix for radio stations, and VLY as in Valley), but this is never heard on air. Its signal is on the FM band, at 98.1 megahertz, with a power output of up to 20 kilowatts (20,000 watts), but is limited to around 10 kilowatts (10,000 watts) to reduce "overspill" into Newcastle and Tamworth. In early 2004, the station received funding under the radio blackspots program to transmit into Merriwa on 102.7 FM, however it isn't known if it has begun transmitting on this frequency yet. It commenced broadcasting on the 7th of June 1995, as a supplementary FM service of 2NM, and became part of the Power FM Network owned by Grant Broadcasters. The station is owned by Radio Hunter Valley Pty. Ltd., along with sister station 2NM 981 AM. It broadcasts a contemporary hit radio format targeting under 35's, using music from the 80's and 90's, and syndicated programming such as Take 40 Australia, The Hot Hits, Rick Dees Weekly Top 40, How Green Is My Cactus (also heard on 2NM) and Planet Rock.

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    Sony


    Sony Corporation (Japanese katakana: ソニー) , is a global consumer electronics corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. It is currently one of the world's largest producers of consumer electronics and is one of the biggest corporations in Japan. Sony Corporation is traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange under number 6758 and on the NYSE as SNE through ADR. See also Sony Corporation shareholders and subsidiaries.

    History

    It was founded by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita on May 7, 1946 as the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering with about 20 employees. Their first consumer product, in the late 1940s, was a rice boiler. As it grew into a major international corporation, Sony acquired other companies with longer histories, including Columbia Records (the oldest continuously produced brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888). Today Norio Ohga is Honorary Chairman, Nobuyuki Idei is Chairman and CEO, and Kunitake Ando is president of the corporation.
    Brand change
    When Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was looking for a romanized name to use to market themselves, they strongly considered using their initials, TTK. The primary reason they did not, is that the railway company Tokyo Kyuko was known as TKK. The name "Sony" was chosen for the brand as a mix of the Latin word ''sonus'', which is the root of sonic and sound, the English word "sunny", and from the word ''Sonny-boys'' which is Japanese slang for "whizz kids". However "Sonny" seemed not to be appropriate since it sounds too much like the Japanese ''soh-nee'' which means something like ''"business goes bad"'', Akio Morita pushed for a word that does not exist in any language so that they could claim the word "Sony" as their own (which paid off when they sued a candy producer who also used the name who claimed that "Sony" was just an existing word in some language). At the time of the change, it was extremely unusual for a Japanese company to use Roman letters instead of Chinese

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    Logo

    Isn't using the company's logo a copyvio (see similar additon by Tonius on the Hasbro article)? We should probably get clear on this before we add company logos to every article in the 'pedia and get a lawsuit on our hands. Please correct me if I'm wrong (such as, using company logos is allowed under Fair Use). —Frecklefoot 15:19, 11 Aug 2003 (UTC :I was wondering about that. It would be nice to know if we can include logos.Vancouverguy 15:24, 11 Aug 2003 (UTC) There's a discussion regarding this issue now in progress on the Village Pump. Regardless, the current image is rather poor in quality (grainy) and should be replaced with a crisper (and perhaps larger) version. A PNG would probably be preferable to a JPG as it is not lossy. See IBM for a better implementation of a logo. —Frecklefoot 19:12, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC) Okay, I replaced it. But the old one, Image:Sony.jpg, is still sitting on a server somewhere. Does anyone know where to request to get it deleted? —Frecklefoot 17:38, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC) Why is the notice on this page, shouldn't it be on the Image:SonyLogo.png page? -- EmperorBMA|話す 22:33, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC) ---- I notice that Columbia Pictures is a redirect to this page; Columbia had a long and interesting history before Sony bought them in 1989, and it really should have its own article. I'll go ahead and start on it, though I don't have much time at the moment. -lee 16:14, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

    From Talk:Sony

    background on the sony brand: http://news.sel.sony.com/corporateinfo/sony_brand/ from http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/1-35/h1.html: In 1958, Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, which was gaining recognition for its Sony brand goods, changed its name to Sony Corporation. The name "Sony" is easy to pronounce and read in any language. from http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/1-35/h4.html: Following registration of the

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