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Made the first radiophonic broadcast in Brazil, but the first radio officially acknowledged was Rádio Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (actually, Rádio MEC). Also, it is one of the oldest stations in the world. [List entry too long] First Australian experiment in the broadcast of music: n/a AWA; Ernest Fisk; Sydney: 8 August 1919 AM [11]
The station first signed on, as KFDM, on October 1, 1924. It was the first radio station in Southeast Texas. In the 1930s, it was owned by the Sabine Broadcasting Company with studios in the million-dollar Hotel Beaumont. [4] It transmitted with 1,000 watts by day and 500 watts at night.
Many inventions improved the quality of radio, and amateurs experimented with uses of radio, thus planting the first seeds of broadcasting. Telefunken The company Telefunken was founded on May 27, 1903, as "Telefunken society for wireless telefon" of Siemens & Halske (S & H) and the Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft ( General Electricity ...
The station's reporting on corruption in Gregg County, led by Glen Ivey, earned it a 1979 award from the Texas State Network [18] and other honors from the Texas Association of Broadcasters and United Press International. [19] After more than 20 years, H.A. Bridge announced the sale of KLUE to McLarty Communications of Little Rock, Arkansas in ...
KFYO was the longtime home of Texas Tech Red Raiders football and men's basketball games starting with the first Texas Tech Football game broadcast in 1934 and continuing into the mid-1990s. Jack Dale was the "Voice of the Red Raiders" from 1953-2003 and also served as KFYO's Sales Manager in 1960s and 70s.
It then flipped to KEWS - "The First All-News FM Station in America, Made in Texas" on February 27, 1996. [17] Religious talker KWRD was established at 94.9 on January 11, 1997, after a trade with KEWS-FM. As a result of the trade, KDFX-1190 AM became KWRD-FM, while KEWS-FM became KOOO-1190 AM.
The next year the company used the same concept to begin establishing the first radio network. [107] The WEAF and WJZ chains. At the same time in early 1922 that it announced the beginning of advertisement-supported broadcasting, AT&T also introduced its plans for the development of the first radio network. [104]
Milestones in radio: the first half century (1895–1945). The UNESCO courier (February 1997), p. 16–21; Radio Review/Radio Listeners Guide (1925–1929), Broadcasting Yearbook (1935–2010), World Radio TV Handbook (1947–) Berg, Jerome S. The early shortwave stations: a broadcasting history through 1945 (2013) radioheritage.net