History of American Broadcasting

AM broadcasting history

• Meanings of requested call letters of the 1920s
• Various articles: Part 1 Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15
• New York City AM Calls, by Bob Harrison
• A chronology of AM broadcasting 1900-1960
• Broadcasting magazine special issues of 1962 and 1970
• World shortwave stations as of 1926 and 1931
• U. S. and Candian shortwave stations as of 1947
• Radio station slogans in the 1920s and 1930s
• A Broadcast Engineering article on the 1965 blackout
• From the 1947 Broadcasting Yearbook an article Radio Highlights and Headlines: 1946
• UPI Wire Reports from 1963 and 1969
• War of the Worlds (1938)
• Amos ’n’ Andy
• The Hindenburg broadcast
• CBS Radio
• KDKA
• KFSG
• KFSG - Debunking the Myth of the McPherson Telegram to Hoover
• KFWB - Celebrating the 90th Anniversary
• KFWO and Catalina Island Radio
• KGFJ Los Angeles - The Original 24-Hour Station
• KPPC Pasadena - The Birth and Death of a Heritage Radio Station
• Mutual Network
• WLW
• WOI
• WSM
• Radio and the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympics
• College Football on Los Angeles Radio 1922-1942
• Early Canadian and Mexican radio station lists
• Lists of U. S. radio stations from: 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1942, 1946
• Network-affiliated AM stations from 1949
• Elizabeth McLeod's 100 Old Time Radio Moments of the Century
• Some Internet posts about World War II radio broadcasts
• Which was the first U. S. radio station?
• Oldest surviving airchecks
• The Academy Awards on Radio
• An article on "Educational Radio's First Rural Station," WBKY
• Frank Bull - Los Angeles Sportscasting Pioneer

FM broadcasting history

• A Broadcasting article from 1947: "142 FM Stations Operating in 33 States"
• A list of the earliest U. S. FM stations
• Various articles: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
• New York City FM calls
• A chronology of early FM broadcasting
• Lists of U. S. FM, apex, and high frequency stations from: 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, another 1942 list, Feb. 1942 list, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1958
• The most powerful FM stations

TV broadcasting history

• Various articles Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9
• What became of TV channel 1?
• A TV Guide article from January 1964 describing TV coverage of the Kennedy assassination
• A chronology of early TV broadcasting
• Lists of U. S. TV stations from: 1930, 1931, 1939, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1958, 1986
• U. S. TV Channel Allocations as of 1947

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