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KFUO-FM Deserves Respect

Maybe it’s the fact that they don’t spend any money on tv commercials. You don’t see any bumper stickers containing their call letters. There’s that...

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KFVE’s Short, Troubled Life

Radio station KFVE was in existence in St. Louis less than three years before its identity was changed, but it was a turbulent three years....

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KMOX – “The Voice of St. Louis” – Engineering History

On Christmas Eve, 1925, KMOX first went on the air from Kirkwood, Missouri, licensed as “The Voice of St. Louis.” A venture spurred by the...

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KMOX Rewarded Its Initial Investors

When a group of local businessmen got together to build St. Louis’ “superstation” in 1925, their agreement included a chance for some corporate self-promotion. That...

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KMOX Was Important to CBS

Many people tend to think that radio’s “golden age” ended in the 1940s, but one local media veteran has memories of that golden time extending...

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KSD – The First Year

By William A. Kelsoe – St. Louis Post-Dispatch When Mr. Joseph Pulitzer decided last March (1922) to install radio equipment in the building, it became...

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KSD, St. Louis’ Pioneer Station, Reclaims Position Once Held Here

(No Byline) KSD, one of the oldest stations in the United States, after ten years of serving only as an outlet for the National Broadcasting...

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KSD’s First Eleven Years

It is eight o’clock p.m. on the evening of March 9th, 1922. In a room in the Post-Dispatch Building, a group of artists are patiently...

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KSD’S New Studios

KSD’S NEW STUDIOS, NOW OPERATING WITH HIGH FIDELITY MECHANISM, AMONG MOST ATTRACTIVE IN COUNTRY DESIGNED TO INSURE REALISM OF RECEPTION ON RADIO SETS IN HOMES...

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KSHE Station History

KSHE was granted a construction permit on September 7, 1960 for a new broadcast station at 94.7 mHz. A license to broadcast was issued June...