{"id":65576,"date":"2026-03-14T07:23:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=65576"},"modified":"2026-03-14T07:23:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:23:53","slug":"mark-spots-a-grundig-in-persons-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/mark-spots-a-grundig-in-persons-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark spots a Grundig in Persons of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Mark Hirst, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I’m re-watching Person of Interest, which reappeared on Netflix recently, and spotted a Grundig radio (logo obscured) in one of the episodes.<\/p>\n

Can anyone ID this model? I owned one of these at some point and gave it to a family member who was interested in shortwave. I recall it had great audio.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Mark Hirst, who writes: I’m re-watching Person of Interest, which reappeared on Netflix recently, and spotted a Grundig radio (logo obscured) in one of the episodes. Can anyone ID this model? I owned one of these at some point and gave it to a family member who was interested […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305],"tags":[5458,11060,5506],"class_list":["post-65576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-mark-hirst","tag-persons-of-interest","tag-radios-in-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-h3G","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33022,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/mark-decodes-sstv-images-from-international-space-station\/","url_meta":{"origin":65576,"position":0},"title":"Mark decodes SSTV images from International Space Station","author":"Thomas","date":"June 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Hirst, who shares the following SSTV images transmitted by the International Space Station: Wow! 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