List of oldest radio stations
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The title of Oldest Radio Station is a controversial one, but can be assumed from several in Europe (particularly of the UK and Germany), and in the United States and Canada.
Several potential contenders for the title of "Oldest radio station" are listed below, organized by sign-on date:
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Table of Experimental Radio Stations (AM/Mediumwave/Longwave) |
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| Radio Call-sign (Original) |
Radio Call-sign (Current) |
City/Location | On Air | Broadcast Frequency (AM Radio / FM Radio) |
Broadcast class | ||||
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| (Reginald Fessenden experimental alternator station) | Brant Rock, Massachusetts , United States | December 21 , 1906 (Audio tests from various locations from as early as 1900) | AM 50 kHz (aprox) | ? W | |||||
| FN/SJN/6XF/6XE/KQW/"San Jose" | KCBS (AM) | San Jose, California/San Francisco, California | 1909, 1921 (officially granted experimental license as KQW, become commercial in 1921, and KCBS in 1949) | AM 740 kHz (Originally used 15 watts modulated with Carbon microphone) | Class-B | ||||
| 2XI | WGY-AM | Albany, New York | 1915? | AM 810 kHz | Class-A | ||||
| 9ZP | Pierre, South Dakota | 1915? | |||||||
| 2XG | New York City, New York | 1916 | Unknown | Unknown | |||||
| 8XK, 8ZZ | KDKA | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | 1916 | AM 1020 kHz | 75 watts (1916), Class-A (1920-present) | ||||
| Irish rebel station | 2RN/RTE (First radio studio) | General Post Office, Sackville Street (O'Connell Street), Dublin, Ireland | April 24, 1916 | morse code only (Despite this claimed by some to be "world's first broadcast" as transmission not aimed at specific target)) | converted ship transmitter | ||||
| 9XM | WHA-AM | University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin | December 4, 1916 (regular Morse code weather broadcasts; first voice broadcast in February 1919; regular programming January 1921) | AM 970 kHz | Class-B | ||||
| (Experimental Czech tests) | Petřínská rozhledna (Petřín Lookout Tower), Prague, Czechoslovakia | October 28, 1919 (Experimental), May 20, 1920 |
AM ??? kHz | ?? kW | |||||
| PCGG | N/A | The Hague, the Netherlands | November 6, 1919 - 1924 | Unknown | N/A | ||||
| XWA | CINW | Montreal, Quebec | December 1, 1919 | AM 940 kHz Considered by many Canadians to be "First scheduled broadcast station" | Class-A (Clear channel) | ||||
| ("2MT" Marconi experimental station with a regular news service) | Writtle, Chelmsford, Essex, England | February 23, 1920 | AM 107 kHz | 15 kW | |||||
| LOR Radio Argentina | LOR | Buenos Aires, Argentina | August 26, 1920 | ||||||
| 6ADZ | KHJ-AM | Los Angeles, California | Summer 1920, granted license 1922 | AM 930 kHz | Class-B | ||||
| KDKA | KDKA | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | October 27, 1920 (May have aired as 8ZZ that night) | AM 1020 kHz | Class-A (Clear channel) | ||||
| 8MK | WWJ-AM | Detroit, Michigan | August 20, 1920 | AM 950 kHz | Class-B | ||||
| WRR | KTCK | Dallas, Texas | August 4, 1921 (Unlicensed broadcasts date back to 1920) | AM 1310 kHz | |||||
| WLB | KUOM | Saint Paul, Minnesota | January 13, 1922 | AM 770 kHz | Class-D | ||||
| WIP-AM | WIP-AM | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | March 17, 1922 | AM 610 kHz | Class-B | ||||
| 4XD | WBT-AM | Charlotte, North Carolina | December 18, 1920, License granted April 10, 1922 | AM 1110 kHz | Class-A | ||||
| Regular Czech service | Prague-Kbely | Prague-Kbely, Czechoslovakia | May 18, 1923? | "Long wave" | article | ||||
| Radio Journal de la Tour Eiffel (Eiffel Tower Newsreel) |
France Inter | Paris, France | 1921 | "Long wave" 115 kHz (2600 m) |
N/A | ||||
| WKBV-AM William Knox BrookVille |
WKBV-AM | Richmond, Indiana Whitewater Broadcasting |
1923 | AM 1000 kHz 24/7 | Class B | ||||
| N/A | Radio Romania | Bucharest, Romania | Summer 1925 - 1927 (experimental), license granted March 1928, Regular broadcast from November 1, 1928 | "Long wave" | N/A | ||||
| CFCO | CFCO | Chatham, Ontario/Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada | September, 1927 | AM 630 kHz | Class-B | ||||
| GOW, ZBW | RTHK | Hong Kong | 1928 | ||||||
| 1XE | off the air - later as WGI (and WARC until 1925) | Boston, Massachusetts | mid 1920 | ? - later on 833 kHz | |||||
| 2XN | City College of New York, New York City, New York | 1913; 1920 | |||||||
| 2ZK | New Rochelle, New York | 1916 | |||||||
| Radio Call-sign (Original) |
Radio Call-sign (Current) |
City/Location | On Air | Broadcast Frequency (AM Radio / FM Radio) |
Broadcast class | ||||
| WWV US Government Time Service | WWV | Fort Collins, Colorado | "6 months before KDKA" (May 1920) | 2.5 MHz, 5 MHz, 10 MHz, 15 MHz and 20 MHz | Unknown | ||||
| G2NM[1] | Caterham, Surrey, England | September 11, 1927 | 23 and 33 meters | 1 kW | |||||
| W8HX (later WBEN-FM) | WTSS | Buffalo, New York | 1934 | 5 meters (now 102.5 MHz) |
Ultra-shortwave | ||||
| W1XOJ | WAAF | Westborough, Massachusetts / Boston, Massachusetts | 1937 | FM 107.3 MHz, (Simulcasts on 97.7 MHz) |
Unknown | ||||
| W1XPW, briefly W65H | WDRC-FM | Hartford, Connecticut | 1939 | 102.9 FM | |||||
| W2XDA (Schenectady)/W2XOY (New Scotland), later WGFM | WRVE | Schenectady, New York | 1939, Nov. 20 1940 as WGFM | Originally on FM 48.5 mHz, now FM 99.5 | Unknown | ||||
| W47NV | WSM-FM | Nashville, Tennessee | March 1, 1945 | FM 95.5 MHz, (Not original frequency) |
Unknown | ||||
[edit] See also
[edit] Individual Stations
[edit] References
- ^ Clarricoats, John (1967). World at their fingertips, pub. RSGB, pp. 130-132
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