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Consisted of 27 stations (3 owned and operated and up to 24 "phantom stations" – time leased on affiliated radio stations. WEAF chain: Broadcasting Company of America: Northeast and Midwest United States 1923–1926 Regional network of AT&T-owned radio stations with New York City radio station WEAF as its hub.
Premiere owns the radio distribution rights to the current "fourth major network", Fox (which owns no radio stations), and distributes that company's news and sports radio broadcasts. iHeart's immediate predecessor, Clear Channel Communications, benefited from the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which allowed for greater media consolidation ...
The early history of radio is the history of technology that produces and uses radio instruments that use radio waves. Within the timeline of radio, many people contributed theory and inventions in what became radio. Radio development began as "wireless telegraphy". Later radio history increasingly involves matters of broadcasting.
In early 1916, Saint Martin's College was issued a "Technical and Training School" radio license, with the call sign 7YS, for a station established by Benedictine monk Father Sebastian Ruth, O.S.B. [4] After the entrance of the United States into World War I in April 1917, all civilian licenses were suspended, but following the war, 7YS was relicensed in late 1919. [5]
WHYN-FM (93.1 MHz "Mix 93.1") is a commercial radio station licensed to Springfield, and serving the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts.It airs a hot adult contemporary format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc.
The FCC "History Cards" were collections of 5-by-8-inch (13 by 20 cm) index cards, maintained for each AM, FM and TV broadcasting station. They were introduced in early 1927, at the time of the establishment of the Federal Radio Commission (FRC), and were taken over by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after its formation in 1934.
The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio (OTR) era, was an era of radio in the United States where it was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium. It began with the birth of commercial radio broadcasting in the early 1920s and lasted through the 1950s, when television gradually superseded radio as the medium of choice ...
WMH was an AM radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio, which was licensed to the Precision Equipment Company from December 30, 1921, to December 11, 1923, although it ceased broadcasting in early January 1923. It was one of the first formally authorized broadcasting stations in the United States, and also the first licensed in the state of Ohio.