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The first shortwave station in Europe. 25 June 1926 (test transmissions began), and the first shortwave station in the world with its own dedicated programming rather than being a simulcast of an AM/MW or LW station such as KDKA. Regular broadcast from 30 May 1927 to May 1940 when the station went dark due to the German occupation of Holland ...
The following is a list of FCC-licensed AM and FM radio stations in the U.S. state of Texas, which can be sorted by their call signs, broadcast frequencies, cities of license, licensees, or programming formats.
The station first signed on, as KFDM, on October 1, 1924. It was the first radio station in Southeast Texas. In the 1930s, it was owned by the Sabine Broadcasting Company with studios in the million-dollar Hotel Beaumont. [4] It transmitted with 1,000 watts by day and 500 watts at night.
WFAA was the first radio station in Texas to join a national network (becoming an affiliate of the NBC Red Network in 1927, four years after it agreed to join the network), co-founded the Texas Quality Network, and was the first Texas station to carry educational programs, to produce a serious radio drama series, to air a state championship ...
The station was first licensed, with randomly assigned call letters WCM on April 22, 1922; 102 years ago ().It was started by the University of Texas at Austin. (Initially call letters beginning with "W" were generally assigned to stations east of an irregular line formed by the western state borders from North Dakota south to Texas.
KSNY (1450 AM, "The Zone") is the first radio station to air in Snyder, Texas.Before the advent of FM as a mainstream medium, KSNY adopted a block format, meaning different formats at different times of the day.
It later became an ESPN Deportes Radio Network affiliate, and was the first Spanish-language sports radio station in Texas. [4] On September 4, 2011, KWNX became a straight simulcast of its sister station, KTXX-FM, with the exception of broadcasts of Texas Rangers baseball, occasional Round Rock Express baseball, and Baylor Bears and Texas ...
The station traces its history back to an October 5, 1946 sign-on, owned by the Belo Corporation, and was the first FM radio station to go on the air in Texas. [2] It was called KERA-FM. Even before KERA-FM's first day on the air, there was an experimental FM station "W5X1C" that began tests on October 15, 1945, and another trial dating back to ...