#history
It took a few years – but I finished my meteorology degree from Mississippi State University!
I haven’t looked at Faded Signals since 2017. So many of you left comments or questions about the posts! Thanks so much for the interaction, and I’ll try to reply to as many as I can.
Now that I have some more time, I’m planning to resume posting about broadcast history. If you have any questions or any particular areas on which you’d like me to focus, please let me know!
Abandoned America took a look at the old WFBR/Baltimore building. Here are other entries about the history of WFBR, which became today’s WJZ-AM.
George Hicks headed The Blue Network’s London bureau during World War II. He recorded an eyewitness account of the D-Day landings at Normandy from the USS Ancon. It was broadcast June 6, 1944, over a pool feed to all U.S. radio networks. The New York World-Telegram newspaper called it “the greatest recording yet to come out of the war.” Read more about the broadcast here. Listen to it here:
Hicks died in 1965 at age 59. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Source: Wikipedia (George Hicks)
Last week, I shared a 1947 ad for Raleigh’s WPTF-AM. I grew up listening to the station and worked in the news department there about 15 years ago. It’s a great station with a great legacy.
Each Saturday morning, WPTF airs a call-in gardening program called “The Weekend Gardner.” They start each hour with this montage of some of the historic voices heard over WPTF since it launched in 1924.
