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  2. List of oldest radio stations - Wikipedia

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    Experimental or early radio stations (FM and shortwave) Station call-sign (original) Station call-sign (current) City/location On air Transmission frequency (AM radio / FM radio) Broadcast class; PCGG: N/A The Hague, Netherlands 6 November 1919 – 11 November 1924 Narrow-band FM, 570 m N/A WWV US Government Time Service: WWV: Fort Collins ...

  3. Snuffy Jenkins - Wikipedia

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    During this time, Jenkins also played in the W.O.W. String Band. [5] In 1936, he joined J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers as banjo player performing at local radio station WSPA in Spartanburg. [6] [7] The next year, in 1937, the Mountaineers were hired to perform over WIS in Columbia. The announcer of radio station WIS was Byron "The Old Hired Hand ...

  4. When Radio Was - Wikipedia

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    The series began as a local program in Chicago, hosted by Carl Amari, who was the founder of Radio Spirits, Inc., which sells tapes and CDs of old time radio programs.. Former CBS Radio executive Dick Brescia heard an in-flight version of the program, and soon mounted a nationally syndicated version of the show (through Dick Brescia Associates), beginning Jan. 1, 1990 and hosted by Art Fle

  5. Charlie Bowman - Wikipedia

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    The band then relocated to Washington, D.C. where they played regularly on D.C.-area radio station WLS, and in 1928, performed at a White House social hosted by President Calvin Coolidge. Later that year, the band played in the Al Jolson motion picture, The Singing Fool. In Fall 1928, Bowman left the band and returned to Gray Station. [3] [4]

  6. Portable broadcasting stations in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Portable broadcasting stations in the United States was a category of AM band radio stations, which were not restricted to operation in a specific community, but instead were permitted to be transported for broadcasting from various locations. These authorizations began in the early 1920s during a period when radio regulation in the United ...

  7. MFSB - Wikipedia

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    MFSB formed in 1971 and disbanded in 1985, three years after Teddy Pendergrass' car accident, which left him paralyzed. [4]Assembled by record producers Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, MFSB was the house band for their Philadelphia International Records label and originated "Philly sound" that dominated the early 1970s for the artists who recorded at the Sigma Sound Studios, including The O'Jays ...

  8. 1925 in country music - Wikipedia

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    November 28 – Nashville radio station WSM begins a national institution with its first broadcast of the "WSM Barn Dance" – the weekly program that would go on to be known as the Grand Ole Opry. January 1925, the major labels were still releasing country material on pop labels.

  9. '40s Junction - Wikipedia

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    During its first four months on Ch. 71, the station was known simply as '40 s. The station was rebranded as 40 s Junction on August 13, 2015. [1] The 40 s Junction name, and the station's longtime nickname, "The Savoy Express", refer to the passenger train−travel common in the 1940s. The name also lends reference to the popular dance hall in ...