History of American Broadcasting

Meanings of requested call letters of the 1920s
Various articles: Part 1 Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14
New York City AM Calls, by Bob Harrison
A chronology of AM broadcasting 1900-1960
Broadcasting magazine special issues of 1962 and 1970
World shortwave stations as of 1926 and 1931
U. S. and Candian shortwave stations as of 1947
Radio station slogans in the 1920s and 1930s
A Broadcast Engineering article on the 1965 blackout
From the 1947 Broadcasting Yearbook an article Radio Highlights and Headlines: 1946
UPI Wire Reports from 1963 and 1969
War of the Worlds (1938)
Amos 'n' Andy Part 1, Part 2
The Hindenburg broadcast
Mutual Network
CBS
WLW
KDKA
KFSG
WOI
Early Canadian and Mexican radio station lists
Lists of U. S. radio stations from: 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1942, 1946
Network-affiliated AM stations from 1949
Elizabeth McLeod's 100 Old Time Radio Moments of the Century
Some Internet posts about World War II radio broadcasts
Which was the first U. S. radio station?
Oldest surviving airchecks

A Broadcasting article from 1947: "142 FM Stations Operating in 33 States"
A list of the earliest U. S. FM stations
Various articles: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
New York City FM calls
A chronology of early FM broadcasting
An article on "Educational Radio's First Rural Station," WBKY
Lists of U. S. FM, apex, and high frequency stations from: 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, another 1942 list, Feb. 1942 list, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1958
The most powerful FM stations

Various articles Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9
What became of TV channel 1?
A TV Guide article from January 1964 describing TV coverage of the Kennedy assassination
A chronology of early TV broadcasting
Lists of U. S. TV stations from: 1930, 1931, 1939, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1958, 1986
U. S. TV Channel Allocations as of 1947

This site is maintained by Jeff Miller. I also maintain these sites: History of Broadcasting in West Virginia, Some History of Tampa-St. Petersburg Radio, and a page about WDBS, the old campus radio station at Duke University.