{"id":3176,"date":"2018-02-27T02:33:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/02\/27\/dragnet-goes-after-tv-repairmen-in-1951\/"},"modified":"2018-02-27T02:33:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T15:33:00","slug":"dragnet-goes-after-tv-repairmen-in-1951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/02\/27\/dragnet-goes-after-tv-repairmen-in-1951\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragnet Goes After TV Repairmen in 1951"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fgTyfwuhThU\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"> <\/div>\n<p> <b>Detective Friday goes after a vicious new kind of crime: Crooked TV repairmen who overcharge their customers. These monsters unnecessarily replace (or say they do!) transformers, when all that is needed is a new 5U4 tube. Oh, the humanity! <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>And the reporter they were working with pretended to be a salesman for a new company dealing in rosin-core solder! <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>No kidding. I really thought this was a joke. They were serious. Just click on the video above to listen. <\/b> <\/p>\n<div> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div> <b>Or scroll forward to the 1:32:59 point on this link. Lots of tube talk. This one&#8217;s for you Grayson! <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/wamu.org\/story\/18\/02\/20\/big-broadcast-feb-25-2018\/\"><b>https:\/\/wamu.org\/story\/18\/02\/20\/big-broadcast-feb-25-2018\/<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detective Friday goes after a vicious new kind of crime: Crooked TV repairmen who overcharge their customers. These monsters unnecessarily replace (or say they do!) transformers, when all that is needed is a new 5U4 tube. Oh, the humanity! And the reporter they were working with pretended to be a salesman for a new company &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/02\/27\/dragnet-goes-after-tv-repairmen-in-1951\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dragnet Goes After TV Repairmen in 1951&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-troubleshooting","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}