This is the General History Section of
The Broadcast Archive

Maintained by:
Barry Mishkind - The Eclectic Engineer
Last update: 11/25/15

• The first 100 Broadcast Stations in the US

 

• The oldest 100 Broadcast Stations in the US

 

• The First Stations in each State

 

• Who's On First? - A discussion by Barry Mishkind about which station was the first on the air.

 

• Oldradio.exe - This is the current (well, more than ten years old) self-extracting infobase file (shareware) of history on the pioneer radio stations of the US, with their history from the 1920s through today. An early effort, a more complete infobase has been compiled.

 

• FCC Materials of interest:
  • DOC - Radio Service Bulletins from 1915-1932
  • Historical FRC and FCC Documents from the 1920s and 1930s

   

• The ORIGINS Page - Bob Nelson's file on call letter meanings

 

• Clear Channel Station articles by Mark Durenberger
        - a series of six articles about the big stations of old, and the regulatory considerations.
  • Behind the Clear-Channel Matter
  • Superpowers Crank it Up
  • The Clear Channel Matter, part 3
  • The Clear Channel Matter, part 4
  • The Clear Channel Matter, part 5
  • The Clear Channel Matter, part 6
    

• Research articles by Donna Halper

• Portable Radio Stations  

• Research articles by Thomas White:
• The Story of W/K call letters
• Building the AM band
• Pioneer stations in the US
• The mystique of three letter calls
• Three letter roll call

• A General History of TeleCommunications
       From fire to the Internet  
       Shared by researchers at Sutter Library - Sutter, CA