[Thursday] WLW History

Thu Jan 31 13:27:16 MST 2019

I don't know who might receive this email.  The stories told above remind
me, so I must tell mine.  As a little kid in 1954 I used to listen to DX on
my Hallicrafters S-38C.  I remember very well listening to KIEV AM Glendale
CA one night (yes, from my bed on Tillinghast Rd.)  I think it was a 250
watt station.  I used a White's radio directory to look for and check off
stations as I heard them.  At the time, I wrote to the FCC Engineer in
charge to tell him about his powerful signal,  but don't recall hearing
back from him.

fred

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 3:58 PM Bob Smith via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org>
wrote:

> Thanks Chris,
> Bob
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Prata <chrisprata at live.com>
> To: smirobert5 at aol.com <smirobert5 at aol.com>
> Sent: Thu, Jan 31, 2019 2:39 pm
> Subject: Re: [Thursday] WLW History
>
> hi bob,
>
> great stuff!  I think this only went to me not the ,list so u may want to
> resend  there...
>
> regards,
> chris
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* smirobert5 at aol.com <smirobert5 at aol.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 31, 2019 2:36 PM
> *To:* chrisprata at live.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Thursday] WLW History
>
> Hi Guys:
>
> I worked for WLW-C,the Columbus, Ohio TV station owned by Crosley. The
> senior staff members who had worked in Cincinnati had fond memories of
> Crosley. They said he was a generous employer. I joined the company just
> after it was sold to a group owner whose interest was primarily financial.
> The "family" character of the company was replaced by a corporate model.
>
> I have one other memory, this one of the radio station. It offered a
> program of classical music called "Music Till Dawn" that ran from midnight
> till 7 am. I was in grad school at the time, and I wrote many a term paper
> with "Music Till Dawn" in the background. An academic, Larry Lichty, who
> also a friend, wrote a history of WLW called "The Nation's Station."
>
> And, as a footnote, my father owned and drove a Crosley, one of the cars
> Crosley manufactured in his short-lived entry in the automobile business.
> It fun to drive, but noisy.
>
> Bob
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Prata via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org>
> To: NEWSM Thursday Group <thursday at newsm.org>
> Sent: Thu, Jan 31, 2019 1:57 pm
> Subject: Re: [Thursday] WLW History
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Thursday <thursday-bounces at newsm.org> on behalf of Brown Beezer
> via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 31, 2019 1:50 PM
> *To:* pleaseleaveamessage4me at gmail.com; Thursday at newsm.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Thursday] WLW History
>
> WLW, "The Nation's Super-Station"....an interesting history indeed.....
>
> Thanks Randy !
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randall Snow via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org>
> To: Thursday Group <Thursday at newsm.org>
> Sent: Thu, Jan 31, 2019 1:42 pm
> 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.
>
> --
> Randy Snow
>
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