Following Up From The Earlier Post For As Much As I Dislike Hard Rock And Heavy Metal Music, I Must Report That A Disc Jockey At The FM Radio Station In Philadelphia That Has Gone On The Air As An Experimental FM Radio Station With The Call Letters W47PH In April, 1942; Was Later Reassigned By The FCC To Transmit It’s Signal At 44.9 Megacycles In March, 1943; And Was Also Assigned The W49PH Call Letters In The Process, Was Assigned The WIP-FM Call Letters In November, 1943; Was Sold Alongside It’s AM Parent WIP-AM To Metromedia In May, 1961; Metromedia Had Felt Compelled To Install A Progressive Rock Format At This Station, In Addition To WHK-FM In Cleveland, KLAC-FM In Los Angeles, And WNEW-FM In New York City; And Metromedia Would Change The Call Letters Of This Station To WMMR-FM In 1966, By The Name Of Pierre Robert; Has Recently Passed Away (As Of The Time Of Writing This Post); I Would Also Prefer If Metromedia, Incorporated Had Retained The Hybrid Adult Contemporary-Big Band And The Drake-Chenault Automated “Hit Parade” Formats Of WHK-FM/WMMS-FM, The Automated Middle Of The Road Format Of WNEW-FM, The Classical Music Format Of KSAN-FM, And The Hybrid Middle Of The Road-Big Band And Smooth Jazz Formats Of KLAC-FM/KMET-FM/KTWV-FM.
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For As Much As I Dislike Hard Rock And Heavy Metal Music, I Must Report That A Disc Jockey At The FM Radio Station In Philadelphia That Has Gone On The Air As An Experimental FM Radio Station With The Call Letters W47PH In April, 1942; Was Later Reassigned By The FCC To Transmit It’s Signal At 44.9 Megacycles In March, 1943; And Was Also Assigned The W49PH Call Letters In The Process, Was Assigned The WIP-FM Call Letters In November, 1943; Was Sold Alongside It’s AM Parent WIP-AM To Metromedia In May, 1961; Metromedia Had Felt Compelled To Install A Progressive Rock Format At This Station, In Addition To WHK-FM In Cleveland, KLAC-FM In Los Angeles, And WNEW-FM In New York City; And Metromedia Would Change The Call Letters Of This Station To WMMR-FM In 1966, By The Name Of Pierre Robert; Has Recently Passed Away (As Of The Time Of Writing This Post).
I, personally would prefer if Metromedia had instead retained the Full-Service Middle Of The Road format of WIP-FM/WMMR-FM; instead of installing the Progressive Rock format in 1968.
I do understand that while retaining the Full-Service Middle Of The Road format, for the time being, as of 1966; that Metromedia had changed the call letters of WIP-FM to WMMR-FM to install call letters that stand for “Metromedia-Radio”.
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An Article In National Communications Magazine About When CB Channel 19 Became The Popular Inter-Highway Communication Channel, And The Epicenter Of Communication During The Heyday Of Trucker Culture During The 1970’s:
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An Article About The Bygone Position As A Radio Officer Aboard A Civilian Or Military Vessel:
https://www.marineinsight.com/careers-2/obsolete-yet-famous-marine-jobs-radio-officers/
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An Article About Single-Side Band (SSB) Marine Radios:
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Experimental Television Stations That Lee DeForest Had Put On The Air During The Years 1930, And In 1935, In Passaic, New Jersey; And In Bakersfield, California:
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A Jenkins Disc-Based Mechanical Television Set Produced In The Early 1930’s, And The Cheaper, Knocked-Down Kit Version That The End User Would Assemble Him Or Herself; Called The Jenkins RK-1 And RK-2.
Disc-based Mechanical Television Sets at this time were called Radiovisions, Radiovisors, and Televisors.
https://www.earlytelevision.org/jenkins_100.html
https://www.earlytelevision.org/jenkins_rk-1.html
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Information On Experimental Television Station W9XAK, Owned And Operated By Kansas State University Alongside 9YV/KSAC-AM.
Also included is a digitization of a QSL Card sent by Kansas State University to a viewer (or a listener of solely W9XAK’s Audio Signal) of W9XAK.
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Information On Experimental Television Station W9XAL In Kansas City, Missouri; Co-Owned And Operated With APEX Radio W9XBY By First National Television.
Included with this information is a QSL Card of APEX Radio W9XBY that was mailed to a listener who managed to receive this APEX Station’s signal from afar in February, 1935.
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Experimental APEX Radio Station W9XBY (Later KITE-AM, And Then KXKX-AM) In Kansas City, Missouri:
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I Am Deeply Saddened Over The Recent Passing (As Of The Time Of This Post) Of CTV Journalist Beverly Thomson.
I, personally think that Beverly Thomson would have benefitted from working, at one point in time in her career; at CTV affiliate CFCF-TV in Montreal; at CFCF-AM, and at it’s FM stepchild; CFQR-FM, both of which are related to CFCF-TV in Montreal.
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I Am Furious Over The Malevolent Donald Trump Threatening To Have The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Revoke The License Of Any Radio Or Television Station, Or Cable Channel That Criticizes Him.
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An Article In The Broadcasting Trade Magazine Radio, Incorporated About The AM Radio Act Receiving Bipartisan Support, And Also Receiving Votes In Favor Of This Bill By Two-Thirds Of The Current United States House Of Representatives; Who Are Hold Their Positions In The House Of Representatives As Of The Time Of Writing This Post:
Matthew Parij 