An article from another Blog about AM/Mediumwave Stations in Tanzania.
Category: Radio
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An article from another Blog about AM/Mediumwave Stations in Tanzania.
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An article from another Blog about Radio Algerie International.
Algeria, a former French colony; is still a French-speaking nation well into the present day; in addition to the native Arabic and Berber languages.
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Broadcast and Emergency Dispatch Radio Towers in Illinois, United States of America:
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An article in National Communications Magazine about CB Radio, and how it was carved out of the 11-Meter Amateur/Ham Radio Band in the late 1950’s:
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Photographs of the Blaw-Knox Diamond-Shaped Tower of WLW-AM, and Powell Crosley at the controls for the 500 kilowatt Transmitter of WLW-AM.
The control console for the 500 kilowatt Transmitter of WLW-AM was fabricated out of wood.
In the video taken by Randall “Randy” Hall, whose Ham call sign is K7AGE; as part of a group Tour of the WLW-AM Transmitter Site in the Cincinnati suburb of Mason, Ohio; and of the Crosley/Voice of America Shortwave Transmitter Site in Bethany/West Chester, Ohio (by then, decommissioned; and the Transmitter building having since been converted into the Voice of America Museum), seen is that 500 kilowatt AM/Mediumwave Transmitter of WLW-AM, in dilapidated condition due to it being dormant ever since the end of WWII, when the FCC, beginning in the late 1930’s, had mandated that 50 kilowatts is the maximum amount of power an AM Station is allowed to transmit its signal. The FCC had again allowed WLW-AM to transmit its signal at 500 kilowatts during WWII; where WLW-AM operating at 500 Kw, in addition to the Shortwave transmissions from the West Chester Transmitter site being received in war-torn Europe; led to Adolf Hitler to refer to the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation, and the Office of War Information (now the Voice of America) as the “Cincinnati liars”.
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As early as 1957, the Sea Island Broadcasting Corporation had applied for a license to put another AM Station in Beaufort, South Carolina; as it had already owned and operated WBEU-AM.
For the next few years, the Sea Island Broadcasting Corporation actually found themselves in competition with another company with the same name, but different owners; for the allocation by the FCC to put a Radio Station on the air in Beaufort.
The Sea Island Broadcasting Corporation was operated by Chief Engineer Charles Bell, in addition to the Merrill and Klatt Families.
In 1961, the Sea Island Broadcasting Corporation had settled with Mr. Ben Davies for the allocation in the area of 1490 kilocycles, and as a result; the Sea Island Broadcasting Corporation was awarded a license by the FCC to put a 100 watt AM Station in Beaufort.
By January, 1962; the Sea Island Broadcasting Corporation had put WSIB-AM on the air following months of construction.
In 1967, Charles Bell had applied for a Daytime Effective Radiated Power (ERP) increase of 500 watts, which was granted by the FCC. The FCC would also grant Mr. Bell’s application to increase the Nighttime ERP to 250 watts in 1969.
In November, 1973; the FCC had issued an order to the Sea Island Broadcasting Corporation, demanding an explanation as to why the FCC should not revoke the license of WSIB-AM due to this Station performing fraudulent billing practices.
After a succession of legal issues throughout the remainder of the 1970’s, the FCC, at first, had ordered WSIB-AM to cease operation in January, 1981. Then, the FCC had decided to authorize an interim operation of WSIB-AM to the new owners, William and Vivian Galloway until the sale had finalized.
By June, 1981; the same of WSIB-AM to the Galloways was finalized, and the Galloways had changed call letters to WVGB-AM. As of the time of writing this post, this Station still retains the WVGB-AM call letters.
In 1984, the Galloways, in addition to two other applicated; jointly filed for a license to put an FM Radio Station on the air. By 1985, WVGB-AM would spawn an FM offspring, WGCQ-FM, and would be assigned by the FCC to operate and transmit its signal at 92.1 megacycles. As of the time of writing this post, WGCQ-FM is currently WVSC-FM.
In 2011, after 30 years of owning and operating the former WSIB-AM; the Galloways would sell WVGB-AM to Partners Broadcasting Company; and they Galloways would sell what was by then WGZO-FM to L&L Broadcasting.
Below is the link to a photograph that was taken in 1971 of the front façade of the small Studio building of WSIB-AM on Boundary Street in Beaufort, South Carolina:
The location of the WVGB-AM Transmitter Site in Beaufort, South Carolina:
A Photograph of the WVGB-AM Tower (the Tower is seen in between the Trees and their Trunks, and behind the house with the Blue siding in this picture):
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A photograph of the Transmitter Hall at (the now defunct) WGTM-AM in the Raleigh suburb of Wilson, North Carolina.
WGTM-AM went off the air in March, 2010; and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had officially deleted the license of WGTM-AM on December 2, 2011; for the owner’s (Spirit Broadcasting Inc.) failure to renew this Station’s license. WGTM-AM’s license had actually expired the prior day, on December 1, 2011.
For a time, WGTM-AM had an FM offspring, WGTM-FM; which was assigned by the FCC to operate and transmit its signal at 106.7 megacycles. WGTM-FM would be taken off the air by Hurricane Hazel in 1954, only to never again return to the air.
Where WGTM-AM’s Transmitter Site was located, in the Raleigh suburb of Old Fields Township, North Carolina:
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An ID Card for NBC Television affiliate WKY-TV (now KFOR-TV) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Edward K. Gaylord, founder of the Oklahoma Publishing Company (now the Gaylord Broadcasting Company), became fascinated with the nascent medium upon hearing about it in the mid-1930’s; as Television was actually conceived in the late 1920’s.
Edward K. Gaylord developed ambitions of putting his own Television Station on the air. Like many an individual or business who had already owned and operated one or more Radio Stations, Mr. Gaylord’s plans for putting a Television Station on the air were set back by the onset of WWII.
In 1949, Edward Gaylord put WKY-TV on the air as a stepchild of WKY-AM. WKY-AM, in turn; had first gone on the air in January, 1920 as Amateur Station 5QP.
In the Fall of 1921, the call letters were changed to 5XT, and a year later, in 1922; the AM Radio Station was granted the recently minted ‘Commercial’ status, and was assigned the call letters WKY.
WKY-TV was one of the very first Television Stations to transmit its signal in Color, having ordered the RCA Color Equipment as early as the time it first signed on the air in 1949, and actually began transmitting its signal in Color starting in March, 1954.
Around this same time, WWJ-TV (now WDIV-TV) in Detroit also began transmitting its signal in Color. WWJ-TV/WDIV-TV actually had only transmitted NBC Television Network programming beginning in 1954, and actually didn’t begin transmitting its newscasts, and it’s locally-produced, in-house programming until it had acquired the equipment necessary to transmit its local programming in Color in 1960.
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Photographs and an Article about the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) 600 kilowatt AM/Mediumwave Transmitter Site nicknamed “Aspidistra”.
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Radio Transmitter Sites throughout the World:
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Pat Sajak may be retiring from the position as the Host of the Television Game Show “Wheel Of Fortune”, and Pat Sajak may continue to serve as a member of the Board of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan (as of the time of writing this post), but I would still like to cast Pat Sajak in my Movie as a Radio Disc Jockey.
It is only Pat Sajak’s background in Radio and local Television that I am interested in, and not at all his famous tenure as the Host of the Television Game Show “Wheel Of Fortune”.
Specifically, the role that I want to cast Pat Sajak in; is a Disc Jockey for a heritage FM Radio Station with a hybrid Adult Contemporary-Jazz-Easy Listening format that had originally gone on the air in 1934 as an Experimental APEX Station; and when the FCC had ruled beginning in the 1960’s that FM Stations were no longer allowed to simulcast their AM parents just so one could hear the programming of the AM Radio Station in the crystal-clear sound of FM Radio; this FM Radio Station had taken its hybrid Adult Contemporary-Jazz-Easy Listening format in 1968. Both this FM Radio Station and its AM parent are CBS Radio affiliates, and this FM Station’s Television sibling is a CBS Television affiliate.
Pat Sajak had got his start in Radio when he won a contest held by Dick Biondi to serve as a Guest Disc Jockey at ABC owned and operated WLS-AM in Chicago sometime during the 1960’s.
Besides working at WSM-AM when it had an Adult Contemporary format, and at WSM’s Television offspring WSM-TV (later WSMV); Pat Sajak had also worked at WEDC-AM in Chicago beginning in 1966, at AM Radio Station WNBS-AM in Murray, Kentucky (named for inventor Nathan Beverly Stubblefield, an inventor known for his inventions pertaining to wireless telephony) and as a Weatherman for NBC’s owned and operated Television Station in Los Angeles; KNBC-TV.
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I, the owner of this very Blog; can not tolerate Smart Mobile Telephones, other Smart Devices, and Social Media all being the lifeblood of younger generations of people.
If you’ve been following this Blog for a while, you also know that I don’t have any tolerance for younger generations of people being modernists, who always yearn for the latest, greatest, and trendiest things; are usually flippant, and think only about the here, now, whatever is in front of them, and whatever comes their way; rather than being philosophical, and erudite, and thinking along the lines of the past state of being, how things first came into being, how things have and will continue to evolve, the construction of all matter in the Universe, and so on.
You also know that I don’t have any tolerance for most of the people from the younger generations being shiftless, and unambitious.
It does not matter to me if people such as myself are esoteric.
I would prefer to have a Landline, Home Phone Service, and a Landline Corded or Cordless Phone instead of a Mobile Telephone.
I would also prefer to use a Payphone, and posses a Bag Phone, or a Brick-style Cellular Phone instead of a Smart Mobile Telephone.
You do have to wonder how Internet Retailers such as Amazon, and Brick and Mortar Retailers such as Costco can manage to sell Smart Mobile Telephones; including this one manufactured by the Korean manufacturer Samsung that young radicals would be willing to part with nearly $2,000 United States Dollars to purchase:
And this Smart Mobile Telephone manufactured by the British company Vertu that costs nearly $20,000 United States Dollars:
And also, this Smart Mobile Telephone manufactured by the British company Vertu with an outer casing made from real Animal hide (as I am writing this post, I feel so bad for these Animals who were killed against the will of God and every other higher power only for sport and for manufacturing items such as Luxury Upholstery and parts of Cellular Telephones) that costs nearly $4,000 United States Dollars:
The one and only aspect of Smart Mobile Telephones that I care about is the Radio aspect of them. including the Radio Signals and Cellular Towers.
Heck, Amateur/Ham Radio, and Commercial Broadcast Radio are both more important than Smart Cellular Telephone culture; and Smart Mobile Telephones, and other Smart Devices being the lifeblood of younger generations of people.
Younger generations of people should consider all that Bell Laboratories (the ingenious Research Division of the Bell System) located in Holmdel, New Jersey, United States of America; had done to make Cellular technology possible, including the Radio aspect of Mobile Phones; instead of yearning for the latest, greatest, and trendiest things. being flippant, and thinking only about the here, now, whatever is in front of them, and whatever comes their way.
Amateur/Ham Radio Operators, and Shortwave Radio enthusiasts know all about Single Sideband (SSB), including what it actually is:
Young radical people in Great Britain and the Commonwealth nations should consider the impact that the British Home Office had and continues to have on the Research and Development of Cellular Technology; instead of yearning for the latest, greatest, and trendiest things. being flippant, and thinking only about the here, now, whatever is in front of them, and whatever comes their way.
Young radical people in Great Britain and the Commonwealth nations should also consider the Business Affairs the Bell Telephone System and its successor companies have had with Great Britain and the Commonwealth nations:
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Some of the many, many, many off brand Chinese-manufactured goods that the Internet retailer Amazon sells.
One has to wonder why is the Internet retailer Amazon selling all of these off brand Chinese-manufactured goods.
One also has to wonder how younger generations of people can have low enough standards and values to think that off brand Chinese-manufactured goods such as these carried by Amazon are as satisfactory as name brand goods from manufacturers such as General Electric, RCA, Westinghouse, Sony, National/Panasonic, Samsung, LG, Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Minolta, Konica, Olympus, and Kodak.
If you are shopping for any one or more of these Cameras, Radios, Audio Cassette Players, and any of the other Electronic Devices pictured below; feel free to click on the photographs below:
Who, in their right mind; would spend nearly $14,000 United States Dollars on a Chinese-built off brand Television:
Matthew Parij 