1929 in radio

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The year 1929 in radio involved some significant events.

Events

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  • 8 January – CBS purchases New York City radio station WABC from the Atlantic Broadcasting Company.
  • 10 January – WTFF (The Fellowship Forum, a station formerly owned by the Ku Klux Klan) in Mt. Vernon, Virginia (modern-day WFED) changes its call letters to WJSV. While the call letters are claimed to stand for "Jesus Saves Virginia", they actually stand for James S. Vance, a Grand Wizard in the state and publisher of the station's owner, "The Fellowship Forum" (a shell organization for the KKK). Vance arranges an affiliation deal with CBS Radio, which also involves operations and programming for WJSV..
  • 29 October – Radio Moscow makes its first foreign language broadcast, in German.[1]

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Births

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References

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  1. ^ Wood, James (2000). History of International Broadcasting. Vol. 2. UK: IET. pp. 109–110. ISBN 0-85296-920-1.
  2. ^ a b c Dunning, Jhn. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3.
  3. ^ Gershwin. Sultinof (ed.). An American in Paris Commemorative Facsimile Edition. Warner Bros. Publications INC. p. 4.