Footnote #: 216
Refers to Dialogue: “Brinkley circumvented”
Time: 00:40:28
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Brinkley probably didn’t himself “invent” this method of recording on transcription discs, but he was an early adopter of the technology and was the first to use it to circumvent the new law. So many transcription discs were produced and discarded by XERA that locals supposedly used them as roofing shingles.

References

"Unfazed, Brinkley began using some of the first 'electrical transcriptions' — what today would be called pre-recordings — to circumvent the law" (Brock, 192-3); Lee, 174; Crawford and Fowler, 44-45; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_disc  

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