Station Histories

Station Histories

Other sites with extensive station histories

• oldradio.com - Barry Mishkind's extensive old radio site.
• http://hawkins.pair.com/radio.html - Jim Hawkins Radio and Broadcast Technology Page. Photo tours and histories of many statons.

Stations by State

• California

  • Delano

    • Last of VOA’s Wartime Transmitting Stations Goes Dark - How International Broadcasting Found Its Way to Delano, by James E. O'Neal, 3.01.2008

  • Los Angeles

    • KJS/KTBI/KFAC/KWKW - First religious station in Los Angeles, started at Biola in 1922 on 1300 kHz, then 1330 kHz

      • Los Angles Almanac
    • KFSG Los Angeles, CA
    • KHJ Los Angeles, CA. See also Boss Radio Forever
    • KIIS / KXTA Los Angeles
    • KTLA (TV) - KTLA website has a history section. Also, see info on the biography pages of Harry Lubcke and Klaus Landsberg.

  • San Francisco Bay Area

    • Bay Area Radio Museum - Memories and audio of bay area radio.
    • Broadcast Legends - Bay Area association of vintage broadcasters.
    • John Schneider's San Francisco Radio History - Very nice collection of station histories.
    • KFRC San Francisco, CA. See also KFRC switch to Family Radio
    • Museum of City of San Francisco broadcasting history, including Radio – 1927, "S.F. Man's Invention to Revolutionize Television" – 1928, Debut of Carlton E. Morse’s “One Man’s Family” – 1932, Don Lee Television to Soon Come to San Francisco – 1939, New NBC Studios for San Francisco – 1940, Tour of the New NBC-KPO-KGO Taylor and O’Farrell St. Studios – 1942, “New Zanies on the Radio” (Coyle and Sharpe), by Dwight Newton – 1963, Jim Coyle and Mal Sharpe Skit, KGO-AM Radio Tower Collapse – 1989, KFRC-AM – San Francisco, KPO-AM, KMPX-FM, RCA Shortwave Station KER, Ocean Beach Wireless Station – 1912, History of San Francisco Liberation Radio – 1998

  • San Luis Obispo

    • KCPR San Luis Obispo, CA

• Connecticut

  • Connecticut Radio History Time Line
  • WWUH, West Hartford

• Florida

  • THE MIGHTY 690 WAPE--Jacksonville. This was one of the Brennan Family stations like WVOK (along with Benns) and WBAM. WAPE was a red hot top 40 in the mid 60's witha powerful north-south signal from Jacksonville. The transmitter was home-made and the station was a daytimer only. 50,000 watts of red hot rock and roll, or as Dewey Philips of Memphis WHBQ might describe it, 'Red, Hot and Blue'. This is their original tansmitter schematic copied from a blue print at WFLI, a sister station. On a 36" wide presentation the print is a reverse of the original. This was a patented Weldon version of the Doherty circuit using grounded grid finals. WAPE Schematic. Stanley Adams was here.

• Idaho

  • History of Idaho Broadcasting

• Illinois

  • Chicago Television History

• Kentucky

  • WAKY Louisville, Kentucky
  • WKLO Louisville

• Missouri

  • Kansas City MO includes KCKN, KCMO, KMBZ, Early FM station KOZY, WDAF, WHB, WOQ, WREN, Kansas City Post station "WRW," Hi-fi pioneer W9XBY, Kansas City FM in 1962, KFEQ St. Joseph Missouri, KFRU Columbia Missouri, KKSU Manhattan Kansas, WIBW Topeka Kansas, WOS Jefferson City Missouri, and St. Louis stations: KSD, KWK, KFUO, KXOK, WIL.

  • KMOX, St. Louis*

    • Article by Frank Absher that appeared in Radio Guide, this is the draft of the article. You will find the published article here: *Radio Guide Article
    • KMOX Equipment ppt slides 34M KMOX Original Equipment material has been submitted by Stanley Adams. pdf version of Power Point presentation
  • St. Louis Radio - This is the premier website of the history of St. Louis broadcast radio. Our website includes articles on subjects from the city's first on-air personalities to recent events which have permanently shaped the local radio scene.

• New Jersey

  • WRAN, Randolph

• New York

  • WABC New York.

  • WOR New York. The Story of WOR's Original Transmitter, Stanley Adams, as printed in Radio Guide September 2005. 570k. This story came to Barry Mishkind by way of the grandson Cliff Uzmann who still lives in the greater NYC area. His grandfather George was a multi-disciplined fellow who ran code for the press syndicates as well as wrote stories on radio history and programming. Here is the original article from Cliff as submitted to me (Stan) upon which we based our story in RG from. Please observe the owners wishes to copyrights. Article by George Uzmann], Stanley Adams. I want to publically thank Barry for being a considerate encourager for many who have contributed to both Harold's Wiki and also to the http://www.oldradio.com web site. Barry is one among many. He is a standout.

    • One of WOR's more famous announcers was Jean Shepherd. Here are some air checks of him from the 1960s where he tells us about the wonders of Morse code and a visit to the NAB convention.

• Oregon

  • KQIV Lake Oswego, Oregon

• Virginia

  • WRVA, Richmond, VA since 1925

International

• 2LO - Article from December 23, 1922 Amateur Wireless and Electronics describing 2LO, London. Contributed by Tim Hughes. 3.5MB. Also see http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/2lo/index.asp and http://homepage.ntlworld.com/martin.ellen/oa/Vintage%20BBC%20Transmitters.htm for more 2LO info.
• 5SC - Article from October 11, 1924 Amateur Wireless and Electronics describing 5SC, Glasgow. Contributed by Tim Hughes. 2.4MB
• LM Radio - The first radio station in Lourenco Marques began broadcasting on 18th March 1933 but suspended transmissions for a while in 1934 due to shortage of money. A South African, G J McHarry became involved, and in 1935 Radio Clube de Moçambique was launched, broadcasting mostly in English.
• Radio Caroline - Broadcasting from the North Sea. See also Ross Revenge, Days of Radio Caroline

• XERF/XERB

  • Border Blaster - BBC Radio 4 - In Search of the Wolf: Nick Barraclough recalls the first pirate radio stations which sprung up on the US/Mexico border in the 1950s

Station Memorabilia

• Radio Logo Land - Radio logo T shirts from the 1950s through 1970s.

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