Not everyone had a cassette recorder, but plenty of people understood that recordings could be made of audio. Yes and no. They understood that recordings coul

Not everyone had a cassette recorder, but plenty of people understood that recordings could be made of audio. Yes and no. They understood that recordings could be made of audio, but they expected everything to be live and ephemeral. That's why if you listen to old radio shows, very often the introduction includes the phrase "...coming to you by transcription from {$city}..." "Transcription" is what they used to call recording, and people were almost always told that what they were listening to was not a live broadcast. It's so common, I have to wonder if there was a period in time when it was a legal requirement.