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Visit to the Brasilia Radio and Television Tower
It already seems to be a classic as well as the giant wheels of the London Eye type, in the city of London England. Communication towers are becoming more and more tourist attraction points.
VOUS St John’s, Newfoundland
Long Lost Radio History Images: LLRI #50 – VOUS – AFRS in Canada.
During the Second World War the United States set up its Fort Pepperrell base on the shores of Quidi Vidi Lake…
Warren Fahey Presents Yesterday’s Australia
A Collection of Early Australian Radio & Musical Hall Nostalgia This collection of CDs was donated to the Radio Heritage Foundation by Warren Fahey. Click…
The Night Watch – WXLG Kwajalein 1953
Rare audio & photos from WXLG Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands in 1953
What Happened to the Famous KDKA Shortwave Station at Saxonburg?
During its 20 years of operation in the Pittsburgh area, the Westinghouse KDKA stations utilized a dozen or more main and subsidiary shortwave transmitters, ranging in power from less than one kW right up to 50 kW.
Long Lost Australian Radio Stars
4CA Cairns
4CA Cairns – “At the Top of Australia” The Cairns Station is the most northerly on the Australian Coast. It is owned and operated by…
AFRS Armed Forces Radio Memories
WVUS New Caledonia
Mosquito Network in the French Pacific Some Contemporary Recollections by David Ricquish In May 1943, a station was heard in New Zealand, identifying itself with…
Island Radio Pacific Style
Samoa’s Radio 2AP Redevelopment Project
Enjoy this YouTube video from Australia’s ABC on the redevelopment project at 2AP: Samoa’s newly rebuilt Radio 2AP transmitter is already broadcasting essential information to…
Radio ZJV Suva
Foundations of Radio Fiji by Len Usher and Hugh Leonard The first Fiji Broadcasting Commission was appointed in June 1953, as assumed control of broadcasting…
Samoan Radio Journey
by David Ricquish We turned a corner on the Cross Island Road, and there sat a stumpy little radio tower, almost hidden in the misty…
New Zealand Radio
The Rise and Fall of Radio Avon
A radio documentary about Christchurch’s first private station Radio Avon, created as a 700-level major project by Richard Holstein, a student at the New Zealand…
LONG LOST RADIO HISTORY IMAGES
The Radio Heritage Collection
Art of Radio ©
Nautel Memorable Radio
Lure of the Trail
CQ CQ CQ Seeking Information
Antenna near Alice Springs?
On 2021-07-03 Jamie Fehr wrote to us: G’day, In 2015, I did a tour from Alice Springs to Uluru. We drove by some sort of antenna installment, I…
Wagga Wagga Food Parcels?
Ann Wells recently contacted us via our Facebook page with this inquiry: Hi, Bit of a long shot here, have recently been chatting to my…
Researching the life of Maya Rodevitch
Earlier this year James Duffy emailed us: Greetings: As is mentioned on your webpage, very little is known about the radio stations operating out of…
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- Redd Harper 1948by Thom on September 17, 2021 at 12:30
Redd was a part of a concert band that became more and more successful until they were invited to join an Oklahoma City radio station in 1924. From there, his career took off and his music was in greater demand. In 1931 he joined a larger radio […]
- Mary Turner 1991by Thom on September 17, 2021 at 12:28
Mary TurnerTime to rock with Mary Turner. An AOR daily show, it was quite the scandal in the early 80s and great.Mary Turner 1991More Mary Turner
- Roland Bynum 1981by Thom on September 10, 2021 at 13:25
KJLH 102.3's Roland Bynum and James Fields The musicman hanging out at The Taste of Soul L.A. a few years ago!Roland still makes it happen on Stevie Wonder's KJLH in Los Angeles every Saturday morning.Roland Bynum - 1981More Roland Bynum
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