WJDX building, radio station, is being restored: Jackson, Mississippi
2022年6月24日 · The original two-story brick and concrete building, completed in 1929, served as the transmitter site for radio station WJDX. It was designed, according to legend, to resemble a huge...
Where Are the Oldest Tower Sites? - Radio World
2007年8月14日 · To find the oldest AM site that’s still on the air, we have to look to the Midwest. It was in late 1924 that WCCO in Minneapolis built a transmitter site “way up north” in Coon Rapids, Minn. Boasting a superpower output of 5,000 watts, the new WCCO site quickly made the station one of the giants of the upper Midwest.
WTPF’s former site: A “Time Capsule from the 1940’s”
2018年4月22日 · The distinct Art Deco style clearly defines the WPTF radio station as a 1940’s classic. With rounded windows and curved edges, the building looks tiny on the outside, but cuts deep underground into a shelter that allowed announcers to …
Signing Off: Demolition of Old Radio Station Triggers
2021年4月16日 · In Westwood, demolition crews tearing down an old radio station recently revealed an even older radio station – or, more precisely, the station building’s old tower transmitter facility, which dated to the early 1930s. The small, squat structure still bore the faded outlines of the station’s call letters, KMBC, on its fatigued façade.
KTTX/KWHI Building - The Historical Marker Database
2021年1月8日 · The building and newspaper were purchased in 1937 by Tom S. Whitehead, Sr. In 1947 he founded KWHI radio station and later moved those studios to the second floor of the building. In 1962, he sold the newspaper and it later moved to another location.
Home Sweet Home: Distinctive building has fascinating history
2022年6月2日 · Overstreet’s design was meant to evoke images of cathedral-style radios of the era when it was completed in 1929 on North State Street between present-day Briarwood Drive and Beasley Road. That theme was apropos, because the building housed the transmitter for WJDX, Jackson’s first radio station.
WJR Radio Transmitting Building - SAH ARCHIPEDIA
The WJR Radio Transmitting Building was built when the radio station moved its transmitting facility from its original location at Sylvan Lake to Riverview. This location was considered a great improvement because its flat terrain would be ideal for radio wave propagation.
In 1988, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the “Old WRUF Radio Station”. It is the only English Tudor Revival style building on campus and was designed in 1928 by architect Rudolf Weaver, who designed most of the campus structures built during the early 20th Century. The application
POST CARDS from RADIO STATIONS Part 1 - World Radio History
Part 1 of a collection of radio station post cards. Views of station buildings, towers, transmitters, studios, auditorims and staff. Some are as early as the 1920's and they span about 70 years of radio history.
UFPD/Old WRUF BuildingHistoric Sites-- UF Builds: The …
The WRUF Radio Station building opened in 1928. It was built according to the designs of Rudolph Weaver in the Tudor Revival style, a manner quite different from the Collegiate Style characterizing other campus buildings of that time period.