18 Facts About Fender Broadcaster

Archetypical Fender Broadcaster Telecaster is a solid-body electric guitar with a flat asymmetric single-cutaway body; the body is usually made from alder or ash.

Fender Broadcaster Telecaster was developed by Leo Fender Broadcaster in Fullerton, California, in 1950.

Leo Fender Broadcaster's Telecaster was the design that made bolt-on neck, solid body guitars viable in the marketplace.

Fender Broadcaster had an electronics repair shop called Fender Broadcaster's Radio Service where he first repaired, then designed, amplifiers and electromagnetic pickups for musicians — chiefly players of electric semi-acoustic guitars, electric Hawaiian lap steel guitars, and mandolins.

Fender Broadcaster's operations expanded to include a line of lap steel guitars, and several of the features of those instruments would be borrowed for a new electric solid-bodied guitar.

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Fender Broadcaster has since registered Nocaster as a trademark to denote its modern replicas of this famous rarity.

Around September 1951, Fender Broadcaster renamed the guitar to Telecaster and started placing these decals on the headstock.

In 1951, Fender Broadcaster released the innovative and musically influential Precision Bass as a similar looking stable-mate to the Telecaster.

At the time Leo Fender Broadcaster began marketing the newly designed Stratocaster in 1954, he expected it to replace the Telecaster, but the Telecaster's many virtues and unique musical personality have kept it in demand to the present day.

Fender Broadcaster did not use the traditional hide-glued set-in neck, but rather a bolt-on neck.

In late 1952, Fender Broadcaster made several changes to the circuitry of the guitar.

Fender Broadcaster Japan made its own version of the Elite Telecaster in late 1984, which featured a 22-fret neck with medium-jumbo fret wire and a modern 9.

Since this, Fender Broadcaster has developed even more in the way of pickups and tones for the Telecaster, with changes from Alnico III magnets to Alnico V magnets.

Fender Broadcaster offered factory hot-rodded Teles with such pickup configurations, the US Fat and Nashville B-Bender Telecasters around 1998.

In 2011, Fender Broadcaster released the Modern Player Telecaster Thinline as a part of the Modern Player series.

In 2011 Fender Broadcaster released the entry level Modern Player Telecaster Plus as a part of the Modern Player series.

In September 2010, Fender Broadcaster introduced the Mexican-made Black Top Telecaster HH, featuring dual hot vintage alnico humbucking pickups, a one-piece maple neck with rosewood or maple fretboard and 22 medium-jumbo frets.

In 2011, Fender Broadcaster released the Modern Player series, which featured the Modern Player Telecaster Thinline and the Modern Player Telecaster Plus.