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Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Radio - Bok av Ed Salamon - Inbunden

Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Radio - Bok av Ed Salamon - Inbunden

Pittsburgh is the birthplace of radio, the location of many of radio's first and most influential stations and broadcast personalities, and a key market for the development of new formats. Pittsburghers' reaction to the music they heard on the radio helped to break records and create stars. Radio provided an unprecedented audience for live performances by local artists. After the big band era, radio gave voice to pop, rock and roll, and rhythm and blues. Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Radio celebrates..

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Philadelphia Radio - Bok av Alan Boris - Inbunden

Philadelphia Radio - Bok av Alan Boris - Inbunden

Philadelphia radio broadcasting began in 1922, when the city's first officially licensed stations went on the air. Within a few years, what had begun as a small, experimental medium became a full-fledged craze as families listened to live news, sports, and entertainment for the first time. In 1932, the first building designed for radio broadcasting opened on Chestnut Street, coinciding with the golden age of radio that featured live orchestras, soap operas, and imaginative dramas. In the 1950s, a..

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Boston Radio - 1920-2010 - Bok av Donna L Halper - Inbunden

Boston Radio - 1920-2010 - Bok av Donna L Halper - Inbunden

Boston's radio history begins with pioneering station 1XE/WGI, one of America's first radio stations, and includes the first station to receive a commercial license, WBZ; the first FM radio network, W1XOJ and W1XER; and one of the first news networks, the Yankee News Service. Nationally known bandleaders like Joe Rines and Jacques Renard were first heard on Boston radio, as was one of the first weathercasters, E. B. Rideout. The city has been home to a number of legendary announcers, such as Bob..

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Tulsa's KAKC Radio - The Big 97 - Bok av Steve Clem - Inbunden

Tulsa's KAKC Radio - The Big 97 - Bok av Steve Clem - Inbunden

KAKC AM 970 dominated radio listening in Tulsa, Oklahoma, like no other station before or since. During its heyday, half of all radios in northeast Oklahoma were tuned to this Top 40 station. The \new\ KAKC emerged in 1956 with a baby-boom generation raised on rock and roll, the twist, and transistor radios. But it was more than music that kept KAKC on top throughout the turbulent 1960s, Vietnam, and into the 1970s--it was fun! The station was always out doing something entertaining in the community,..

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Davenport's WOC AM-FM-TV - Bok av David T Coopman - Inbunden

Davenport's WOC AM-FM-TV - Bok av David T Coopman - Inbunden

Beginning in 1922, Davenport's WOC has charted an impressive list of broadcasting firsts: the first licensed commercial radio station west of the Mississippi River; first station to establish logging, the practice of recording program schedules down to the minute and second; the use of time signals at the beginning of programs; first to build and use audio mixing controls that allowed multiple microphone usage; first to broadcast from a state legislature; and first to broadcast programming meant..

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West Plains - 1930 to 1970 - Bok av Toney Aid & Jerry Womack - Inbunden

West Plains - 1930 to 1970 - Bok av Toney Aid & Jerry Womack - Inbunden

The Great Depression hit West Plains hard, but people were resilient and bounced back during World War II. The postwar years brought rural electrification, television, and paved roads. As the economy began to move away from agriculture to new industries, a flooring mill and shoe factory came to town, accompanied by a community hospital. Big band slipped into rock and roll, radio to television, and iceboxes to refrigerators. In 40 years, people went from Ford Model Ts to Mustangs and from silent films..

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Harrisburg Broadcasting - Bok av Timothy P Portzline - Inbunden

Harrisburg Broadcasting - Bok av Timothy P Portzline - Inbunden

In 1922, the first radio station in Harrisburg, WBAK, was owned by the Pennsylvania State Police. By 1925, three more stations were added to the local lineup. By 1953, Harrisburg had two television stations within the city limits--WHP-TV and WTPA. WKBO was the city's Top 40 leader in the 1970s. In 1985, album rocker FM104 became WINK 104, skyrocketing almost overnight into one of the highest-rated stations in Harrisburg history. Throughout the decades, names like Dick Redmond, Ed K. Smith, Ron Drake,..

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Twin Lights of Thacher Island, Cape Ann - Bok av Paul St Germain - Inbunden

Twin Lights of Thacher Island, Cape Ann - Bok av Paul St Germain - Inbunden

Thacher Island was named for Anthony Thacher who, in 1635, lost his four children and other family members in a shipwreck during the most severe storm to ever hit the Massachusetts coast. Only Anthony and his wife Elizabeth survived. The lighthouses have played an important role in several wars, including the Revolutionary War and World Wars I and II, when the navy established a radio compass station to protect the coast from enemy submarines. A ship bearing a U.S. president almost wrecked on Thacher..

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