[BC] WHA vs, KDKA

[RON DOT'O SR.]

WWJ Detroit is in the running for "Oldest Station" too.  The Yearbook lists 
them with an older date than KDKA.

Ron D, Salem, OR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <DHultsman5 at aol.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 04:52
Subject: Re: [BC] WHA vs, KDKA


>
> In a message dated 1/2/06 9:46:18 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> akline at netins.net writes:
>
> >AFAIK. WHA is the only station that IDed as "the oldest station in  the
> >nation." It did so for many years. Don't know whether it still  does.
>
> As of 1998, KCBS San Francisco used the phrase "world's oldest  radio
> station" in
> its sign-on/sign-off copy.  Wasn't heard often, of  course, because their 
> only
> off-air time was the Sunday morning maintenance  window.
>
> ak
>
>
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> There are many other stations that can make the claim of being on the air
> prior to the date of KDKA as a broadcast facility.   Many of their  roots 
> were
> as experimental or amateur stations.
>
> The old WRR-AM,  Dallas, Texas built by Dad Garrett at his home and  later
> moved to the City of Dallas Central fire station.  Station played  records
> between fire calls. WRR used to claim an FCC license dated 1920.  I  know 
> they
> raised money from the citizens of Dallas to get their first  commercially
> manufactured transmitter a Western Electric 6B in 1929.
> The Texas Almanac credits WRR as the first radio station in the state of
> Texas.
>
> WDAE in Tampa used to have photocopies of their license from the Maritime
> Commission out of New Orleans before 1920.
>
> I believe KCBS had something similar from the Maritime Commission in San
> Francisco.
>
> None of the above will ever change history because none of the above had 
> the
> money involved to write the history.
>
> Dave
>
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