Broadcast station history sought
Carl Ratner
Hi all,
I'm trying to find out when AM radio stations WABC, WJZ and WOR began
broadcasting.. Would anyone have this information, or could you point me to a
source where I might look it up?
Many thanks.
-- Carl
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Paul Lindemeyer
Carl Ratner wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to find out when AM radio stations WABC, WJZ and WOR began
> broadcasting.. Would anyone have this information, or could you point me to a
> source where I might look it up?
>
> Many thanks.
From Erik Barnouw's _A Tower in Babel_:
WJZ -- Westinghouse, Newark, NJ. October, 1921.
WOR -- Bamberger's Dep't Store, Newark, NJ. Early 1922.
WABC -- CBS, New York. January, 1929.
(Before WABC, CBS originated from WOR.)
Jeff Miller's radio page probably has the real poop from the FCC.
http://members.aol.com/jeff560/jeff.html
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Thomas Hamilton White
Carl Ratner <art-...@bway.net> wrote in article
<art-deco.7...@bway.net>...
> I'm trying to find out when AM radio stations WABC, WJZ and WOR began
> broadcasting.. Would anyone have this information, or could you point me
to a
> source where I might look it up?
>
WJZ was first licenced to the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company, in Newark, NJ in May, 1921. On
September 30, 1921 it got a new licence for 360 meters
(833 kilohertz), and it began public broadcasts by carrying
the World Series. (The date is variously given as 10/7/1921
by the 1983 Broadcast Yearbook, 10/12/1921 per the H.P. Davis
section in THE RADIO BUSINESS: THE STORY OF ITS DEVELOPMENT
(A W Shaw Company, NY, 1928), and 10/13/1921 per Donald McNicol's
RADIO'S CONQUEST OF SPACE (Murray Hill Books, NY, 1946).
On May 15, 1923 WJZ moved from Newark to New York City. On March
1, 1953 it changed its call to WABC.
WOR was first licenced to Newark, NJ on May 20, 1922, to the
L. Bamberger & Company department store. (The station application
requested the calls of "WLB", but these had been assigned the
previous month to a station in Minnesota). I don't have a first
air date, but most likely it was within a week of the licence grant.
The city-of-licence was changed to NYC on January 28, 1941.
WAHG was first licenced in September, 1924 to A. H. Grebe &
Company (a radio manufacturer) in Richmond Hill, NY. In December,
1926 the call sign was changed to WABC (Atlantic Broadcasting
Company), and in the early 40's it became WCBS.
[Or was this a trick question? WABC was first assigned to a
short-lived Anderson, IN station that lasted from May, 1923 to early
1924. The call was next used by a station owned by the Asheville [NC]
Battery Company from mid-1925 to 1926. So over the years four separate
stations have been assigned the WABC call sign]
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Al Rooney
Carl Ratner wrote:
> Hi all,
> broadcasting.. Would anyone have this information, or could you point me to a source where I might look it up?
This site has some interesting older photos of the WABC studio.
http://www.exit109.com/~jimh/wabc.shtml>
Al
John Byrns
In article <33055B...@worldnet.att.net>, Al Rooney
<n2...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
The photos at http://www.exit109.com/~jimh/wabc.shtml are of the modern
era WABC, formerly WJZ I think, which ever station it was that NBC spun
off with the Blue netowrk. I think Carl was refering to the early WABC
which was the CBS station in New York, which later took the WCBS call
letters, this was an entirely different station than the modern WABC.
Regards,
John Byrns
Carl Ratner
My thanks to all who replied to my question. What a wealth of knowledge there
is in this group!
--Carl
Thomas Hamilton White
Thomas Hamilton White <whit...@ipass.net> wrote in article
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> WOR was first licenced to Newark, NJ on May 20, 1922, to the
CORRECTION: First licence was FEBRUARY 20, 1922.