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Crosley Radio is an audio electronic manufacturing company headquartered in
Louisville, Kentucky Louisville is the List of cities in Kentucky, most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast, and the list of United States cities by population, 27th-most-populous city ...
. It is a modern incarnation of the original Crosley Corporation which existed from 1921 to 1956. Modern Marketing Concepts resurrected the Crosley name after the original brand was discontinued by parent company Avco in 1956, due to declining sales. The modern Crosley first marketed
turntables A phonograph, later called a gramophone, and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of sound. The sound vibration Waveform, waveforms are recorded as correspond ...
in 1992. Today, Crosley is a marketer of turntables,
radio Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 3  hertz (Hz) and 300  gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connec ...
s, and
jukeboxes A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that plays a user-selected song from a self-contained media library. Traditional jukeboxes contain records, compact discs, or digital files, and allow user ...
. In 2017, Crosley introduced the 'Vinyl Rocket' – the first vinyl jukebox in its catalog, and the "world's only vinyl jukebox in current production". The machine holds up to 70 seven-inch records, and can play both A and B sides using a “unique rotating vinyl mechanism” for a total of 140 possible selections.Crosley is bringing vinyl jukeboxes back from the dead with the Vinyl Rocket
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{{reflist Companies based in Louisville, Kentucky Electronics companies established in 1984 1984 establishments in Kentucky American companies established in 1984 Audio equipment manufacturers of the United States Phonograph manufacturers Radio manufacturers