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The clock will be turned back on Saturday, June 11, 2005, when a
transmitter broadcasting on an original FM frequency will be switched
on at the Alpine Tower in Alpine, NJ, to commemorate the 70th
anniversary of the first public demonstration of FM radio by its
inventor Major Edwin Howard Armstrong.

A special program, hosted by WINS Anchorwoman Judy DeAngelis, will
originate from the site of the world's first FM station in Alpine. The
broadcast will begin at 12 noon. It will tell the tale of the
difficult birth of FM radio through personal recollections by some of
the people who worked with Major Armstrong - including Mr. Renville H.
McMann Jr., former VP, CBS Technology Center. McMann worked for the
Major at age 14 while in school.

Mr. Tom Lewis, author of Empire Of The Air, is slated to offer his
insights into Armstrong's struggles with industry giants of the time as
well as the inventor's remarkable impact on all forms of present day
communications. The book served as the basis of the Ken Burns PBS
special of the same name.

Included in Saturday's broadcast will be excerpts from a recording of a
special 1941 test broadcast of the original New England Yankee
Network-the first such network to use FM radio links instead of
telephone lines to connect stations. A radio dramatization of Empire Of
The Air, originally produced by David Ossman for American Public Radio,
will be broadcast.

The commemorative broadcast day is scheduled to conclude with the 1954
signoff of the Alpine station W2XMN following the death of Major
Armstrong.

For those who do not have an FM radio on the 42.8Mc frequency, the
broadcast can be heard through the facilities of WFDU(FM) 89.1 MHz