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RADIO PIONEERS/EARLY STATIONS

This page leads us to information about the earliest efforts in ‘Radio Broadcasting’ and we also profile some technologists who laid the tracks. The station-development stories are not always in date order, so look for more stations here.

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Some pioneering efforts: High Risk; High Reward?

ABC of Radio 1922	Eiffel Tower Station: Jun 1922	Pioneer Minnesota Station	Detailed WDY Story
WEAF 1924--Schneider	Purportedly a 1917 9XM Voice Test MP3
Calif. Theater station 1921	WJZ Dec,1921	KZY February,1922	KDKA broadcasts Jul, 1922
WGY April/May, 1922	KSL San Francisco!! Jul, 1922	First Texas station, 1922	WGR Sep, 1922
WSB Sep, 1922	New Denver station Oct, 1922	KUO October, 1922	KDYL Jan, 1923
KFI Apr, 1923	WEAF studios Jul, 1923	KGO-KOA plans Jul, 1923	WRC Jan, 1924
WTAM Jan, 1924	WMAF Jan, 1924	KGO March, 1924	WLW studios Jan, 1925
WLWL–WOK–WVP 1926	WTMJ Jun, 1927	WSM-WOR Jun, 1927	WEAF Jun, 1927
WGY move-suit Oct, 1928	WNYC-WMCA Dec, 1928	WLS-WENR Dec, 1928	WNYC-WMCA Feb, 1929
WGY move-suit Mar, 1929	WBAP-WFAA May, 1929	WOWO Jan, 1930	KMOX Nov,> 1930
Pioneer Amateur Station	WEAF New Home May, 1923	WGY Rebroadcasts 1924	KDKA to England Mar, 1924
WEAF 50 kilowatts Nov, 1927	WJZ and Telco 1923	WGY fights allocation Dec, 1928	More on KDKA to England
50 kilowatt upgrades Dec, 1930	Radio Central: WJY-WJZ 1923	WDAP 1923	WOS
WLAGWCCO-WCCO page	STATION N-A-A	WNYC 1924	Kansas City Radio 1924
WRC 1924	Early static-reduction 1924	Gen Pershing on radio 1923	Presidents on Radio 1924
CQD story 1924	Early WWJ--Thomas White	ABS Affiliates-Holt	W2XAD 1930--Gustafson
W2XAD-2--Gustafson

Smart technologists with vision

Lodge: Wave Transmission Feb, 1923	Lodge: Pioneers in Ether Sep, 1923	DeForest on radio–WOR Oct, 1923
Lodge: Heaviside Layer Dec, 1924	McMurdo Silver Jun, 1929	Marriott’s early days in Wireless 1924
Marconi: Dream Mar, 1930	Marconi: Retrospective Jan, 1932	R. A. Fessenden Dec, 1932
Edison “Inventor of Radio” Sep, 1936	Fleming’s Valve Mar, 1938	Alexanderson–progress Mar, 1943
Radio milestones-DeForest Jul, 1944	DeForest: Audion Jan, 1947