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174 |
New Zealand |
Aunt Gwen of 2YA |
"Putting together this story about my mother has taken a long time, all my life in fact."
With these words, Margaret Willis introduces us to New Zealand's most loved Radio Aunt, 'Aunt Gwen of 2YA'...
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173 |
New Zealand |
Never A Dull Moment |
Keith Richardson is known to Kiwi babyboomers for his top rating radio shows on 1XN Whangarei, 2ZC Napier, 2ZB Wellington and to even more recent
listeners on Radio Pacific, Greater Wellington FM, Radio Fifeshire and others...
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172 |
Australia |
The Queensland Network |
The Queensland Network - Five Great Voices in One
4BC Brisbane 4SB Kingaroy 4GR Toowoomba
4RO Rockhampton 4MB Maryborough...
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171 |
Australia |
7DY Derby |
Playing an important part in Tasmanian country broadcasting since February, 1938, Station 7DY,
situated near Derby, operates on 1450 kc/s. (107 metres) , with a power of 200 watts...
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170 |
Antarctica |
WASA Radio, Antarctica |
In 1971 I had the privilege of being deployed to the Antarctic for one year and three days. The following are excerpts from my diary in regards to my involvement with
the WASA radio station at McMurdo...
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169 |
New Zealand |
2ZA Radio On Stage |
2ZA 'The Voice of the Manawatu' began broadcasting from Palmerston North in 1938.
An ambitious social history exhibition was mounted by the regional museum Te Manawa to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the local radio station that had such an impact on community life...
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168 |
New Zealand |
Kiwi Hams All Ages |
Cecil James and Brendan Farrell share something unique: they are the oldest and youngest ham radio operators in New Zealand and they belong to the Hamilton Radio Electronics Group...
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167 |
New Zealand |
Apna 990AM Auckland |
Morning radio jockey Shaiyaz Mohammed doesn't mind getting up at 4.30am to do the job he loves.
The Apna 990 general manager hosts the radio station's breakfast show and has been with the media company since its inception...
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166 |
New Zealand |
Blue Skies FM |
Alexandra's only independently owned radio station is going off air.
Blue Skies FM will have its final broadcast on Tuesday and become RadioWorks' easy-listening radio station the Breeze from Wednesday...
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165 |
Papua New Guinea |
9PA Port Moresby |
For a period of around two years during the Pacific War, there was no radio broadcasting station on the air in Port Moresby. However, when the American forces flooded into the South Pacific in support of the war effort, there was a
need for a radio broadcasting station in Port Moresby...
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164 |
New Zealand |
One Christian Radio |
James Cope is bringing his faith to New Plymouth airwaves...
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163 |
New Zealand |
Southside 107.7 FM |
When Papatoetoe man Chris Bennett didn’t like what he heard on the radio he decided to do something about it...
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162 |
Northern Mariana Islands |
The KYOI Story |
The idea for a pop/rock station on Shortwave first appeared in early 1980. At the time there was an upsurge of popularity in shortwave listening amongst teenage Japanese, brought about partly by the
availability of inexpensive, good quality portable receivers...
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161 |
Philippines |
Starting Radio Sangley |
I was sent TDY to the Naval Air Station, at Sangley Point, across the bay from Manila.
I was teaching technicians in communications, radar, and sonar equipment. There were many families living on or near the Sangley Point station, and they had no radio except Philippine stations. So, in conversation with the Special Services Officer, we decided to build a "carrier current"
transmitter and broadcast music and news on the station...
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160 |
Philippines |
KTLG Radio Sangley |
Before enlisting in the Army in 1952 I had done some commercial broadcasting at a local radio station here at home, so,
naturally, I was drawn to the AFRS station there at Sangley...
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159 |
Northern Mariana Islands |
SuperRock KYOI |
KYOI, located on Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands was a commercial shortwave station, on air 24 hours a day, broadcasting "Contemporary Hits"
rock music directed at the Japanese market...
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158 |
South Pacific |
Samoan Radio Journey |
We turned a corner on the Cross Island Road, and there sat a stumpy little radio tower, almost hidden in the misty rain. High in the hills behind Apia, the Afiamalu Pass is the location used by 2AP for many years. As Alan Roycroft, even today still
remembered in Samoa as the founder of radio in the islands...
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157 |
New Zealand |
Hospital Radio Timaru |
Hosptal Radio celebrated 20 years yesterday with the biggest crowd yet to its annual gathering...
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44 |
South Pacific |
ZMAP Apia, Samoa |
As part of the preparations for civilian air service from Fiji to the Cook Islands shortly after World War II, the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) installed communications and radar services. I was involved with this work in Samoa,
Tonga and Rarotonga, and, while in Apia, I decided to start up a radio station...
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154 |
New Zealand |
Access Manawatu 999AM |
Ten years on, and this radio station team hasn't let anything get it down...
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153 |
New Zealand |
Reef Radio |
Eric Allen is using his love and knowledge of music to give back to his local community.
After becoming fed up with the lack of radio programmes for seniors, the 83-year-old Pt Chevalier
resident decided to start his own station, Reef Radio, in 2006...
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152 |
New Zealand |
Howick Village Radio |
Eastern residents have a local voice thanks to the launch of a new radio station.
Howick Village Radio officially launched last week and promises a mix of local news, community group information,
health and lifestyle features, and varied musical styles...
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151 |
Australia |
6PM Perth Network |
6PM Perth, 6AM Northam,
6KG Kalgoorlie, 6GE Geraldton...
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150 |
Australia |
4VL Charleville |
Station 4VL is owned and controlled by the Charleville Broadcasting Co., Ltd., Alfred Street,
Charleville. Studios and transmitter are situated at that address...
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149 |
India |
India FM Abuzz |
The year gone by was a time when years of hard work and patience finally paid off for the radio industry in India. It was a year of intense competition, aggressive marketing and marginal creativity
as private FM finally flowered in metros as well as tiny towns throughout the nation...
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148 |
Australia |
4AY Ayr |
C. D. McCARTHY, manager of 4AY Ayr, "The Voice of the North'' exerts his influence from his town office, where his contacts make 4AY a busy station...
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147 |
New Zealand |
Hear the Lights |
Santa will have no trouble finding one Christchurch house this Christmas -- 6000 lights flashing to synchronised music will see to that.
Software programmer Nathan Kennedy has upped the ante for Christmas lights with a hi-tech, drive-by display in Wetlands Grove, Bexley.
A neon sign tells you to tune your car radio to 88.1FM...
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146 |
New Zealand |
Waves in Waipu |
At the tender age of 19, Ashley Worthy has his own caravan, cat, flat and radio station. Not bad for a legless lad from Waipu...
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145 |
New Zealand |
Radio Cindy |
As a child I always fancied being on the radio, playing cool music and emulating the gun DJs, right through my life it's always been a pipe dream, up until recently. With a 29 year marriage left behind me, a
62 year old solo guy can do what ever he wants if he has the money and motivation...
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144 |
Australia |
2UE Memories |
Hi! My name is Tom Crozier, long retired from commercial radio in Australia but still interested in the business.
A friend of mine forwarded your "long-lost radio stars" of January 10th this year to me. Maybe you have gone past that by now, but many of the names on the list were well-known to me, from my period
at 2UE Sydney in 1949/51, and then a 20-year stint with the same station from 1961...
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143 |
Australia |
2PK Parkes |
Parkes Broadcasting Co. Pty. Ltd. is the licensee of 2PK, which came on the air on October 5th 1937...
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142 |
Australia |
2MG Mudgee |
Station 2MG, Mudgee, "The Voice of the Tablelands," owned and operated by the Mudgee Broadcasting Company Pty. Limited, is situated a mile from the
chief commercial town of a very rich inner-western district of New South Wales...
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141 |
Australia |
2BH Broken Hill |
2BH, "The Barrier Miner" Broadcasting Service is the only station giving coverage to Broken Hill and West Darling districts under all transmitting conditions...
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140 |
Australia |
2LT Lithgow |
Radio Centre 2LT, controlled by Lithgow Broadcasters Pty. Ltd. and an offshoot of Western Newspapers Pty. Ltd. commenced
entertaining its 26,000 town listeners on June 7th, 1938...
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137 |
Solomon Islands |
AFRS Guadalcanal |
The year is 1944 and the world is at war. In the Southwest Pacific, US soldier and broadcaster, T/5 Hy Averback, presents the Atabrine Cocktail Hour on the airwaves of the American Expeditionary
Station (AES) on Guadalcanal in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate...
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138 |
Solomon Islands |
AFRS Radio City |
Once ashore, Captain Spencer Allen was relieved to find that Army engineers and Signal Corpsmen had constructed a studio building for the radio station, “the first made of clapboard in the camp,”
he recalls, and a smaller transmitter shack about 200 yards away...
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139 |
Solomon Islands |
AFRS Mosquito Bites |
As AES-Guadalcanal continued to develop, it was joined by other new stations in The Mosquito Network. On April 3, 1944, AES-Munda (New Georgia), opened transmissions,
having taken over from the unauthorized station already in operation...
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136 |
South America |
Early Argentine Radio |
American history professor Robert Claxton has just released a thoughtful and informative book about early radio in Argentina, with a focus on the period 1920-1944. What soon becomes apparent on reading this book is that the story of
early radio in Argentina shares much in common with a number of other countries...
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135 |
Antarctica |
Antarctic Radio Unfreezes |
There's competition along the Antarctic radio dial. Yes, McMurdo alone now boasts
three FM stations, and the nearby New Zealand base has yet another...
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134 |
New Zealand |
Across the Pacific |
When His Excellency, the Governor-General, spoke in Wellington Town Hall on the occasion of the reception accorded to him, he was heard far afield in North America.
Listeners in the Central States and in the States on the Pacific Coast, heard him...
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133 |
Australia |
Australia Radio Dial 1931 |
Little more than a decade after the end of WWI in 1918, some 6.5m Australians in all states could listen to music, sports commentaries and results and 'educational' talks
on a wide variety of subjects from the newly emerging entertainment medium of radio...
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132 |
South Pacific |
Radio Pasifik Nauru |
The Pacific's newest radio station promises to assist USP Nauru students and their community with a
blend of modern technology and traditional broadcast media...
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131 |
South Pacific |
Samoan Radio Sale |
It's unusual for a public radio and TV broadcaster to be sold, but that's what's happening this year in Samoa...
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130 |
USA |
California Radio Dial 1928 |
It's hard to imagine that within living memory, California once had only a little over 50 radio stations on the air. There was no FM radio and TV was also in the future.
Hollywood had just introduced 'The Talkies', movies with sound...
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129 |
China |
Shanghai Radio Dial 1941 |
In July 1940, TIME magazine featured a story about Carroll Duard Alcott, an American who broadcast from Shanghai radio station XMHA. The story captures the intrigue then swirling
around Shanghai, a series of international zones surrounded by civil war torn China...
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128 |
Australia |
Silver Memories |
University of Queensland researchers from the Australasian Centre on Ageing and 4MBS Classic FM are
collaborating to develop a new radio service specifically for older Australians...
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127 |
Australia |
Pirate Radio PROSH |
Forty-one years ago, in the early hours of Sunday July 31, 1966, Ernie Sigley, irreverent host of NWS 9’s Adelaide Tonight, was abducted from his Kingswood home and driven to Cape Jervis. From there, at sunrise, he was taken by motor launch through a
heavy swell to a vessel anchored in international waters off Kangaroo Island....
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126 |
New Zealand |
Mainstreet Radio |
No one knows when adverts stopped playing on Onehunga Mall. And retailers can't agree if they should start again.
So Onehunga's Mainstreet Radio looks set to be silenced for good unless a buyer is found for the 10-year-old business...
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125 |
New Zealand |
GuruFM |
With Kerikeri's growth, more young people are settling in the area. Among them is Rob Fussell whose new
GuruFM radio station is filling a gap for alternative music enthusiasts....
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124 |
New Zealand |
Ross FM |
Learning broadcasting skills isn't just a theoretical exercise for Ross Intermediate School students on Friday the
Palmerston North school launched its own radio station...
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123 |
Australia |
4ZR Roma |
4ZR Roma, owned by the Maranoa Broadcasting Co. Ltd. and situated in the wealthy
Maranoa District provides both extensive entertainment and an excellent information service...
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122 |
USA |
LAB Keeps the Past |
When the LAB's Curator, Chuck Howell, brought out the first box of QSLs for me to thumb through,
I knew that I was just glimpsing the tip of a
very big iceberg. "We've got over 30,000", he said...
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121 |
New Zealand |
The Base |
As Ken Knight discusses his newest ambition, he is clearly beaming - and soon he'll
be beaming right into the living rooms of Te Aroha...
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120 |
New Zealand |
Today FM |
Brent and Alison Robertson enjoy the music being played on the Dargaville airwaves but feel
there is room for a station that provides real nostalgia...
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119 |
New Zealand |
Splat FM |
Splat FM is a local radio station with a difference.
Like other stations, it plays a selection of modern music, mixed with soundbites and live DJ spots.
But unlike others, none of its crew have graduated from primary school...
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118 |
New Zealand |
The Paddle |
The Paddle no, it isn't a canoe or swim club but a community-based radio station which has just hit the
Palmerston North airwaves...
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117 |
New Zealand |
Groove 107.7 FM |
JAZZ junkies are raving about a local radio station called Groove FM.
They're listening in the morning before work, during office hours and in the evening to wind down...
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115 |
New Zealand |
NZ Radio Dial 1978 |
As the first Generation X kids were born in the 1970's, early baby boomer parents still
listened to 'Music Whilst You Work' on the National Program. Or partied to pop music from a
commercial radio station – until midnight - when
the stations mostly closed down...
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116 |
New Zealand |
Short Term Kiwi Radio |
No, it's not what happens to people who over indulge during the holiday season!
Rather, the New Zealand broadcasting regulations in the 1970's and early 80's, allowed 'short term'
local radio stations to broadcast for a limited time...
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112 |
South Pacific |
ZK1ZA Cook Islands |
Broadcasting to the islands of the South Pacific was introduced in various ways. In
the case of the Cook Islands, it was an educational
radio station that started the interest in broadcasting...
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111 |
Australia |
7QT Queenstown |
The claim is made for 7QT that it is unique among broadcasters.
The extreme ruggedness of the country - plus the mineralised nature of the soil itself precludes
selective and effective reception from all distant Radio Stations in Tasmania, and on the Mainland.
Thus the broadcasting effectiveness of 7QT is readily appreciated,
covering not only Queenstown alone, but the entire west coast...
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110 |
Japan |
KSBK Ryukyu Islands |
During the first decade of the American occupation
of the Ryukyu Islands, the English speaking population listened to the familiar sounds of local
Armed Forces Radio, part of the Far East Network...
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109 |
Hawaii |
KRHO Honolulu 1944 |
KRHO was a powerful shortwave radio station broadcasting in English and Japanese languages to the Far
Eastern Pacific region in the closing stages of WWII...
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108 |
Vietnam |
Good Morning Hanoi |
At the entrance to the Voice of Vietnam's radio headquarters, the administration offices in Quan Su Street, sits a gigantic old loudspeaker,
the mouth of which is close to two meters in diameter...
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107 |
Philippines |
AFRS Radio WVTK Leyte |
I was a member the armed services during WW2, stationed in the Philippine Islands on the
island of Leyete. I was with Armed Forces Radio and at radio station WVTK. This was at a time when the Huk guerillas, an anti-government organization, were
causing lots of problems and killing a lot of people. The station was located...
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106 |
New Zealand |
Radio Shacks Gallery I |
In the first of a new series, the Quartz Hill Collection, amateur radio stations from around the world that
have worked ZL6QH feature in the Radio Shacks Gallery...
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105 |
Australia, New Zealand |
ANZAC Radio Salute |
During World War 2, Australia sent a number of mobile radio stations overseas to broadcast to troops...
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104 |
New Zealand |
2ZB Wellington 1120 AM |
In April 1937, 2ZB began broadcasting to Wellington using a modern 1kW transmitter on 1120kc.
To celebrate, here are some images from deep in our vaults. These are just a few of our collection items. ....
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41 |
Japan |
Tokyo Rose Broadcasts |
Major Cousens had become friendly with Iva Togura, a Japanese-American girl, who, stranded and unable to return to California, had found some suitable typing work with NHK. Iva was pro-American. Cousens selected Iva to work as an announcer on his radio show...
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39 |
Japan |
Radio Tokyo at War |
As is the case with most government-funded broadcasting services, Nippon Hoso Kyokai, the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation, in 1941 had a national and an international broadcasting service....
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103 |
Central Pacific |
OWI Central Pacific Operations |
The Office of War Information [OWI] in the Central Pacific, was responsible for propaganda broadcasts from stations KRHO Honolulu and KSAI Saipan, both stations beginning operation at 3.30am Hawaiian War Time, December 26 1944...
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102 |
Marshall Islands |
Radio Eniwetok WXLE |
The story of Radio Eniwetok is not, actually, the story of a radio station, but the story of the finest group of men....
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101 |
Vietnam |
Vietnam Village Radio |
I first visited Vietnam in early 1997, working for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on an aid project to help modernize radio there. On my first morning in Hanoi, I was awoken in my hotel room on the dot of 5 a.m. by what sounded like a brass band in the street below....
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100 |
New Zealand |
Nelson's Fifeshire |
Back in 1982 two people by the names of Kevin Ihaia and Digby Lawley lodged an application with the Broadcasting Tribunal to operate a short term radio station for the four weeks of January 1983. For twenty-eight days Fifeshire broadcast from....
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99 |
Australia |
2UE Sydney |
Radio 2UE is the oldest of the existing commercial stations in Australia....
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98 |
Guam |
AFRS WXLI Guam |
In order to expedite his transfer, instead of being assigned to Armed Forces Radio Service – the unit that ran broadcast operations in the Pacific – [Ben Green] had been attached to
Island Command, which operated two radio stations....
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97 |
Australia |
6IX WA Network |
This trio of stations is operated by W.A. Broadcasters Ltd., and constitutes the Western Australian end of the Major Broadcasting Network....
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96 |
Australia |
4TO Townsville |
Station 4TO Townsville commenced operation on 5th October, 1931. It transmits on a wave-length of 384 metres....
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95 |
Australia |
2CK Cessnock |
2CK is owned by Coalfields Broadcasting Coy. Pty. Ltd., constituted from a diversity of interests from the commercial and industrial community of the Coalfields and Newcastle....
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94 |
Hawaii |
Art of Radio Hawaii © |
Just the word 'Hawaii' conjures up every possible classic tropical image. It's not surprising therefore, that a variety of Hawaiiana images have been used....
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93 |
Australia, New Zealand |
NZ Radio Dial 1931 |
The year 1931 was a highlight year for early radio broadcasting in New Zealand....
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92 | Australia, New Zealand | Gran of 1ZB Auckland |
Nancy M Donne, better known to thousands of 1ZB listeners as 'Gran' - The ZB Radio Personality - released a book...
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91 | USA | Vintage Radio Gallery |
On October 3 1986, Australian media magazine 'Ad News' ran an unusual double page spread...
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90 | Australia, New Zealand | Radio Power Plays 1975-81 |
Three individual stations ...carved out very special niches for themselves.
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89 | USA | AFRS Jungle Network |
An unedited letter From Sgt. Robert L. Sanders Radio Station WVTG, to John Dietrich at the time of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima.
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88 | USA | WVTB Biak |
See by the latest "Far Eastern Network" news that you are still assigned to hdqs...
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87 | USA | AFRS Jungle Network |
Imagine thick jungle, incessant rain, tropical heat, the continual roar of aircraft engines taking off...
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86 | Australia | 2NZ Northern NSW |
...on 30th March, 1936, the first broadcasting Station to operate from Inverell, ...went on the air, using the call-sign 2LV.
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85 | Australia | 3BO Bendigo |
Station 3BO Bendigo commenced operation on 4th June, 1931...
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84 | Australia | 4CA Cairns |
The Cairns Station is the most northerly on the Australian Coast.
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83 | Australia | Vintage Radio Moosic |
In the 1980s, a band called The Sports wanted to know who listened to the radio.
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82 | USA | WVTB Olympic Baseball |
One of the announcers was driving down the road the other day, and stopped to pick up some hitch-hikers...
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81 | USA | WVTB New Guinea 1944 |
The radio section of Special Services Division of United States Armed Forces in the Far East [USAAFFE] was organized in November 1943...
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80 | Australia | Grace Gibson Studios |
The newly-renovated and equipped studios of British Australian Programs Pty Ltd, now owned by Grace Gibson...
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79 | Australia | Australian Radio Clubs |
A social phenomenon of the early days of radio was the listeners club.
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78 | Australia | 2CH Women's League |
The 2CH Women's League was formed by Amalgamated Wireless on Station 2CH in July 1935.
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77 | USA | AFRS Sapporo 1949-1951 |
In October 1949, Sapporo AFRS began airing spots looking for announcers, no experience necessary.
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76 | Australia | 7HO Hobart's Original |
7HO Hobart, the first commercial station to operate in Tasmania.
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75 | Ecuador | HCJB Quito 75th #1 |
On December 25 2006, the world famous radio station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador, celebrates 75 years of broadcasting to Latin America and the world.
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74 | Australia | 2KY Sydney The Founder |
In March 1932 2KY applied to have its power increased to 3,000 watts...
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73 | Australia | 2KY Sydney The First |
Once built, the station was handed over by Voigt to the Labor Council and it commenced transmission on 31 October 1925.
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72 | Australia | 2KY Sydney The Pioneer |
He returned to Australia in January 1925 enthusiastic about radio...
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71 | Australia | 2KY Sydney The Red |
During the early 1900s in England Voigt had become involved with the Independent Labor Party and joined the Clarion Movement and the Vegetarian Cycling Club.
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70 | Australia | 2KY Sydney The Olympian |
Emil Robert Voigt (1883-1973), an English born engineer, was one of the foremost pioneers of the fledgling Australian broadcasting industry in the early 1920s and the genius behind the birth of radio station 2KY.
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69 | Australia | Diggers on Air |
Australian forces in the SW Pacific and Japan were served by a number of stations during and immediately after WWII.
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68 | Australia | 4BU Bundaberg |
In December, 1935, Bundaberg residents formed Bundaberg Broadcasters Pty. Ltd. for the purpose of operating 4BU.
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67 | Australia | 2AY Albury NSW |
2AY Albury is owned and operated by Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Limited. The station was opened on December 17, 1930...
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66 | American Samoa | Pago Pago Tower Tour |
It's not often we see some Pacific towers, but you'll enjoy this series of photos taken recently at Pago Pago, American Samoa.
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65 | USA | KODK Kodiak 1941 |
Kodiak is credited with being the first armed forces radio station.
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64 | USA | WVUG Anchorage Alaska |
At WVUG we had the full supply of AFRS transcriptions, plus whatever the mails brought us from Headquarters.
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63 | USA | AFRS Alaska |
Some 65 years ago, in early 1941, KRB radio began broadcasting from Sitka, Alaska.
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62 | American Samoa | WVUV Radio Romance |
I am honored by your request about how and when I built and operated WVUV before it had a "call sign".
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61 | USA | KFSG LA The Legacy |
The hard times of the Great Depression years put a strain on nearly everyone in the United States.
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60 | Australia | 4WK Warwick |
The Warwick Station 4WK commenced operations in May, 1935.
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59 | Australia | 3CV Central Victoria |
3CV Central Victoria has studios throughout Central Victoria.
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58 | Australia | 2HR Hunter River |
Operated by Hunter River Broadcasters Pty. Ltd., 2HR supplies the Macquarie Broadcasting Service to the Hunter River Valley.
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57 | Japan | AFRS Japan |
When Japan formally surrendered in 1945, several mobile units of the AFRS were reportedly already on Kyushu.
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54 | Australia | Collecting Classic Radios |
Radio changed the world.
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53 | USA | KFSG LA The Kidnapping |
On May 18, 1926, Aimee went for a swim at Ocean Park, between Santa Monica and Venice, during a day of relaxing at the beach and writing some sermons.
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52 | USA | KFSG LA Regulator Trouble |
Besides the thousands of radio fans who tuned into the KFSG broadcasts each week, the new station was also drawing the attention of the regional Radio Inspector from the Department of Commerce 6th Radio District in San Francisco, Col. J.F. Dillon.
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51 | USA | KFSG LA Aimee Semple |
Aimee knew in 1922 she wanted to spread the word of God and bring people to her church through the use of radio, which was first gaining popularity at the time.
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50 | USA | KFSG LA Setting Straight |
I'd like to share with you what I believe is KFSG's legacy all these years later, along with a few stories about KFSG from its first decade, that have become popular in radio history books and on the internet over the years.
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49 | USA | KFSG LA 4 Square Gospel |
In August 2002, I wrote a history of KFSG radio that appeared on LARadio.com.
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48 | China, Burma, India | AFRS China-Burma-India |
Almost 50 American Forces Radio Service stations are known to have been on the air from 'The Forgotten Theater' of WWII operations ranging from China to India.
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38 | Afghanistan | Kabul Radio Memories |
The main highway running from the Khyber Pass into the city of Kabul (KAH-b'l) runs through the suburban area of Yakatut (YUCK-a-TOOT).
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37 | Australia | Early Australian AM Radio |
This listing of early Australian AM radio stations and their owners has been drawn from material supplied by Bruce Carty of Radio Yesteryear Inc to provide an introduction to the first decade of broadcasting in Australia.
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36 | USA | KELW Burbank |
You're probably familiar with the expression 'Beautiful Downtown Burbank' which was applied wryly to that part of The Valley in the greater Los Angeles conurbation known as the City of Burbank.
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35 | Christmas Island | Christmas Island Radio |
To people living in the developed economies of the world, information is shared in ways which were not possible a decade or two ago.
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34 | Japan | WVTR Tokyo Xmas 1945 |
Music, comedy, drama, news, sports and special events programs fill the airwaves as the 18 stations of the Armed Forces Radio Network broadcast the tops in radio entertainment to occupation troops in Japan and Korea.
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33 | Japan | WVTR Memories |
Let me tell you how I got to Radio Tokyo.
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32 | Japan | WVTR's Sea Monster |
In the Year of 1947 I was serving in the United States Army posted to the Army of Occupation in Japan.
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31 | Australia | 7LA Launceston |
Findlay and Wills Broadcasters Pty. Ltd. holds the licence of 7LA, "Launceston's Original and Feature Station," with offices and studios in Findlay's Buildings, Brisbane Street.
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30 | Australia | 5DN Adelaide |
In June 1924, 5DN commenced the first regular broadcasting service for listeners in South Australia, from the home of the late Mr. E. J.Hume at Parkside, a suburb of Adelaide.
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29 | Australia | 3MA Sunraysia Station |
Owned and operated by Sunraysia Broadcasters Pty. Ltd., 3MA studios are in the T & G Building, Langtree Avenue, Mildura.
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28 | USA | KFVD Los Angeles Changes |
The license for KTNQ, 1020-AM in Los Angeles, is 80 years old this week.
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27 | Japan | Art of Radio © Japan |
Japanese radio stations have created and supported a spectacular body of commercial art work since the early 1930's…
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26 | Australia | 2CH Sydney |
Travelling by fast elevator to the top of the AWA building at 47 York Street, Sydney, a visitor to 2CH…
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25 | Australia | 2CA Canberra Voices |
Radio Canberra is located at the seat of the Commonwealth Government…
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24 | Australia | 2KY Sydney |
The rapid progress which marked 2KY's infancy has been maintained throughout its 20 years.
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23 | India | Early Radio in India |
According to the official records, radio broadcasting in India began on July 23, 1927…
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22 | Australia | Perth Shortwave Radio |
It was on October 19, 1939 that the first test transmissions went on the air from the new ABC shortwave station…
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21 | Indonesia | British Radio Batavia |
As an intelligence officer attached to the RAF…
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20 | Midway Island | KMTH Memories |
With not much to challenge me, I wandered into the radio…
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19 | Midway Island | KMTH Midway |
It's a very lonely island, about, well, about Midway from…
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18 | New Zealand | Early ZL3 Amateurs |
Wireless listening, will have a bit of a run, like ping-pong…
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17 | Tokelau | Radio Tokelau |
FM radio has ended the dependence of the Tokelau people…
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16 | Kiribati | WXLE Memories |
We've been fortunate to have several WXLE DJ's share…
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15 | Kiribati | WXLE Radio 1385 |
Far out in the Central Pacific, the Phoenix Islands lie in…
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14 | Kiribati | Hermit Crab Network |
The eight islands of the Phoenix Group, like most of the…
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13 | Norfolk Island | Radio Norfolk Island |
It's 'drive-time' on Radio Norfolk, and down the road at…
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12 | Kwajalein | Kwajalein Army Radio |
Most of us remember the hilarious routines of actor Robin…
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11 | New Zealand | Hawkes Bay to Replay |
I'm not at all sure what got me interested in radio…
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10 | Australia, New Zealand, Canada | A Tale of Three Cities |
On July 1 1932, the NZ Radio Record, published the first…
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9 | New Caledonia | WVUS New Caledonia |
In May 1943, a station was heard in NZ, identifying itself as…
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8 | American Samoa | 'This is WVUV...' |
After a 35 year broadcast career in the US, I took some time…
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7 | Samoa | Radio in Samoa |
It was very early in the wireless era, that a spark gap Morse…
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6 | Fiji | Radio ZJV Suva |
The first Fiji Broadcasting Commission was appointed in…
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5 | China | Radio in Manchuria |
In the three eras of expansion in the nearby areas of Asia…
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4 | Hawaii | King Kong Radio Kauai |
The Kaumuali'I Highway traverses the western side of...
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3 | New Zealand | Radio NZ Signs On |
From Monday, September 27, listeners with shortwave...
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2 | Australia | The Voice of Australia |
It was just 75 years ago, that the first international shortwave…
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1 | Australia, New Zealand | Art of Radio © |
When radio was first introduced to the public in the early 1920's...
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