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What is now WNBC traces its history to experimental station W2XBS, founded by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA, a co-founder of the National Broadcasting Company), in 1928, just two years after NBC was founded as the first nationwide radio network.
The 1926 formation of the National Broadcasting Company was a consolidation and reorganization of earlier network radio operations developed by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) beginning in 1922, in addition to more limited efforts conducted by the "radio group" companies, which consisted of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and its corporate owners, General Electric (GE ...
The following is a list of radio stations formerly owned by NBC via parent company RCA from 1926 until 1989. NBC formerly operated two radio networks in the United States: the NBC Radio Network from 1926 until 1987 (known as the NBC Red Network from 1926 to 1942) and the NBC Blue Network from 1926 until 1943 (known as the Blue Network from 1942 to 1945 and the American Broadcasting Company ...
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network which is owned by Comcast through NBCUniversal.The network is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles (at 10 Universal City Plaza), and Chicago (at the NBC Tower).
On October 7, 1988 at 5:30 p.m., WFAN moved down the radio dial to replace WNBC at 660 kHz. The last voice heard on WNBC was that of Alan Colmes, who counted down the seconds to WNBC's demise with the legendary NBC chimes (the notes G-E-C) playing in the background. After 66 years, the long history of NBC radio in New York had come to an end. [2]
In 1974, WNBC incorporated the sequence into the opening of its synthesized theme music for its local newscasts, NewsCenter 4 (sharpening the pitch by a half-step); the stinger was heard at the opens to the station's 5:00, 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. newscasts. Eventually, NBC Radio adopted WNBC-TV's NewsCenter 4 stinger as its top-of-the-hour news ...
KMO-TV/KCPQ enjoyed two stints with NBC. In the 1950s, as KMO-TV, it lost the NBC affiliation upon the sign-on of KOMO-TV (due to KOMO radio's affiliation with the NBC Radio Network) and became an independent station. Then in the 1980s, as independent station KCPQ, it cleared NBC programming not cleared by the network's existing affiliate KING-TV.
From 1922 to 1946, WEAF was the callsign of the radio station that became WNBC and the flagship station of the NBC Red Network. [5] This station is now known as WFAN in New York. [ 1 ] In the mid-1970s, WEAF was the callsign of the current WPTI in Eden, North Carolina .