[Thursday] WLW History

[Chris Prata]

This IS cool...

When on the road at night, I often listen to super station "Zoomer radio" 740 AM in Toronto, one of "the few remaining clear channel stations in North America". Works for me!

As to this part: "some lights would not turn off until WLW engineers helped rewire houses. Gutters rattled loose from buildings. A neon hotel sign near the transmitter never went dark. Farmers reported hearing WLW through their barbed-wire fences."

I'd like to know how the barbed wire fences made that audio...

Night distant radio is just so cool... when I was a boy late at night in bed I'd listen to my GE tube clock radio and often get Nashville country stations...

Thanks Randy for sharing.

Chris





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WLW, "The Nation's Super-Station"....an interesting history indeed.....

Thanks Randy !


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From: Randall Snow via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org>
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Subject: [Thursday] WLW History

Guys,

As discussed in our small group today, there was a fascinating excerpt from a magazine that had been sitting on a table in the Mayes building for a while that I had read.  It was about the growth of the radio station WLW from a home hobby-type endeavor to the most powerful transmitter in the country.  We have one of the tubes from this transmitter in the wireless building, sitting there with very little mention of its history.  Here is a quick link<https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/mayjune/feature/in-the-1930s-radio-station-wlw-in-ohio-was-americas-one-and-only-sup> to an article I found, although it's not the one I had read before, nor have I had the time to go through this one.  There are also YouTube video tours of the facility that still contains a great deal of the equipment built for this 500kW station.  This is just one example of the great deal of history we have artifacts of, but no good presentation or explanation for visitors to learn from or appreciate. This story also ties into all of our Crosley radios as well.

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