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VOA Transmitter's 1942-1945
On Tuesday, August 1, 1995 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Seifert, Rick wrote:
Yes, the VOA interval signal prior to "Yankee Doodle" was "Columbia Gem of the Ocean". Thanks to all who answered. On a similar vein, there has been some discussion of early VOA tramsmitter sites/call letters and so forth. Here's a brief synopsis: The Voice of America began full scale broadcasts in November of 1942, at which time all independent shortwave stations in the United States were leased to the government by their owners. The transmitter sites, call letters, and their owners we San Francisco, Calif. KWID 100kw Assoc. Broadcasters Inc. Brentwood,L.I., New York WCBX 50kw CBS WCDA 10kw CBS WCRC 50kw CBS Mason, Ohio WLWO 75kw Crosley Corp. Belmont, Calif. KGEI 50kw General Electric Co. Schenectady, N.Y. WGEA 50kw General Electric WGEO 100kw General Electric Bound Brook N.J. WNBI 100kw NBC WRCA 100kw NBC Hull, Mass. WBOS 50kw Westinghouse Corp. Scituate, Mass WRUL 50kw World Wide Broad. Corp. WRUS 100kw World Wide WRUW 20kw World Wide Wanting a greater shortwave presence, the OWI (office of War Information) was successfull in developing additional shortwave sites, also to be built and operated by private industry, in Delano and Dixon California in 1945. The Dixon site was built by NBC and was the home of KNBC, KNBI, and KNBX. The Delano site was built by CBS and was the home of KCBFand KCBA. Construction at these sites added additional transmitters and call signs in late 1945/early 1946. The additions were KCBR at Delano and KNBA at Dixon. This full time lease arrangement continued until 1947, when Walter Lemmon of WRUL fought for and won the right to again program his shortwave station, but only for 25 per cent of the time. The Greenville transmitter site was dedicated in 1963 as the world's largest and most powerful shortwave facility (at the time). Call letters have never been assigned to this facility. Rick Seifert Voice of America Washington, D.C. 20016 (202)401-7104 Rick: Found this post by Googling. I am writing an article on the VoA and you might be able to provide further information. Please email of you can. Thanks, Dan W1DAN |
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