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KFSG Los Angeles – The Aimee Semple McPherson Station

Pioneer L. A. Christian Station Stops Broadcasting After 79 Years by Jim Hilliker ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEW LOS ANGELES RADIO STATION Aimee knew in 1922…

KFSG Los Angeles – Radio Regulator Troubles

Pioneer L. A. Christian Station Stops Broadcasting After 79 Years by Jim Hilliker AIMEE’S TROUBLE WITH THE RADIO REGULATORS Besides the thousands of radio fans…

KFSG Los Angeles – Kidnapping Heard Around the World

Pioneer L. A. Christian Station Stops Broadcasting After 79 Years by Jim Hilliker THE KIDNAPPING STORY HEARD ROUND THE WORLD On May 18, 1926, Aimee…

KFSG Los Angeles – Depression, War and The Legacy

Pioneer L. A. Christian Station Stops Broadcasting After 79 Years by Jim Hilliker THE DEPRESSION YEARS The hard times of the Great Depression years put…

AFRS Alaska

Some 65 years ago, in early 1941, KRB radio began broadcasting from Sitka, Alaska. This was the unofficial birth of the soon to become global…

The Suggestive Sounds of WVUG Anchorage

by Don Purvis At WVUG we had the full supply of AFRS transcriptions, plus whatever the mails brought us from Headquarters. Back in those days…

KELW Burbank

by Jim Hilliker and David Ricquish Early Tejano Music heard in New Zealand Beautiful Downtown Burbank You’re probably familiar with the expression ‘Beautiful Downtown Burbank’…

A Tale of Three Cities

A Tale of Three Cities By David Ricquish On July 1 1932, the NZ Radio Record published the first issue of a helpful guide to…

Broadcast From the Statue of Liberty

This article was originally material for a broadcast of “Wavescan” via Adventist World Radio and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All…

Discovered At Last – The Oldest Radio Station In The World

This article was originally aired over Adventist World Radio’s “Wavescan” program and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to…

The WINB Story

This article was originally material for a broadcast of “Wavescan” via Adventist World Radio and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All…

The Whitehouse On Air

This article now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to Ragusa Media Group, PO Box 14339, Wellington, New Zealand. This…

Hidden Meanings Behind American Call Signs

This article was originally aired over Adventist World Radio’s “Wavescan” program and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to…

The Story Of A Burning Passenger Liner

This article was originally material for a broadcast of “Wavescan” via Adventist World Radio and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All…

AWR In Latin America

This article was originally broadcast over AWR in their “Wavescan” program and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to…

WSHB Signs On…

This article was originally material for a broadcast of “Wavescan” via Adventist World Radio and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All…

An Island Called Radio Island

This article was originally aired over Adventist World Radio’s “Wavescan” program and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to…

The Story of a Radio Ship – the VOA Phoenix

This article was originally aired over Adventist World Radio’s “Wavescan” program and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to…

The Good Ship KKOL

This article was originally material for a broadcast of “Wavescan” via Adventist World Radio and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All…

The Forgotten All-Night Shift

This article first appeared on LARadio.com and thanks to the author we can now present it here. Author: Jim Hilliker (November 21, 2002) Jim Hilliker…