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WRTA began broadcasting June 18, 1947, on 1240 kHz with 250 W power. The station was an ABC affiliate and was owned by Roy Thompson. [2]Roy Thompson sold WRTA to the Altoona Trans Audio Corporation in March 1956. [3]
Altoona (/ æ l ˈ t uː n ə / al-TOO-nə) [9] is a city in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States.The population was 43,963 at the time of the 2020 census. [10] It is the principal city of the Altoona metropolitan area, which includes all of Blair County and was recorded as having a population of 122,823.
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The Greater Altoona Career and Technology Center is a large five-story school building at 1500 Fourth Avenue, Altoona, Pennsylvania 16602. Associate districts and schools
WFBG was first licensed on July 23, 1924, to the William F. Gable Co., owner of Gable's department store on 11th Avenue in Altoona, for 100 watts on 1150 kHz. The call letters were randomly assigned from a sequential list. [1] Later that year the station moved to 1080 kHz, [3] and as of the end of 1926 was reported to be on 1070 kHz. [4]
Altoona, Pennsylvania: Almost 3,000 [5] Rusty Gilligan, The Mandalorian Mercs, [26] Robert Bruce, Brian O’Halloran, [27] and Scott Schiaffo. [14] May 15–17, 2015 [28] Blair County Convention Center Altoona, Pennsylvania: Almost 4,000 [3] Blair Murphy [5] June 10–12, 2016 Blair County Convention Center Altoona, Pennsylvania
Logan Township is located in west-central Blair County and nearly encloses the city of Altoona. The Interstate 99/U.S. Route 220 freeway passes through Logan Township as it bypasses Altoona to the east, with access from Exits 31, 32, and 33
The Altoona and Beech Creek Railroad was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad in Pennsylvania that operated during the late ninteeth and early twentieth centuries. It carried passenger traffic from the vicinity of Altoona to Wopsononock and coal and timber from Wopsononock and Dougherty to Altoona.