"VCR" apparently stands for "Very Complicated Radio". I've been playing with the dials for 11 years now, and not only can I not get the clock set, but still no reception! Not even the big AM station right down the road. And despite what the slot in the front led me to believe, it stubbornly refuses to play my 8-track tape of "Frampton Comes Alive". I finally gave up and bought the 'digitally remastered' version of Gordon Lightfoot's 'Sundown" on one of those new fangled CDs, but it sounded like crap no matter if I had the turntable set for 78 or 45 speed.