Seventy years ago, the War was over, and American radio manufacturers were getting ready to deliver on the pent-up demand for radios, which had been out of production since early 1942. Stromberg-Carlson was no exception, as shown by this ad in Life Magazine, November 12, 1945, promising that the sets shown here would soon be available.

Interestingly, the FM sets covered two bands.  Since some prewar stations were still on the air on the old band, the sets covered 42-49 MHz.  But since that band would soon be depopulated and the stations moved to the new band, they also covered the modern 88-108 MHz FM band.

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