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Radio, Newspaper war

Even though they competed for advertising dollars, there have been times when radio has really needed newspapers. In the case of an East St. Louis...

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Ralph Hansen Will Never Forget Pearl Harbor

The life of a staff announcer in local radio in the 1940s was not exactly filled with thrills and excitement. But Ralph Hansen recalled one...

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Remembering KRCH

When KRCH signed on in May of 1967, Igor was there, pumping out 24 hours of “adult music” every day. Chief engineer Mike Waldman remembers...

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Roy Queen Walked Three Miles Through Snow To Learn To Play A Guitar

About three years ago, Roy Queen, the Lone Singer, decided that he wasn’t quite satisfied with life in Ironton, Missouri and wanted things to happen....

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Seeing The Game With France Laux

By Nancy Frazer Seated at the tiptop of Sportsman’s Park at the side of France Laux, KMOX’s popular announcer, offers both a mental and verbal...

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St. Louis Radio Was A Haven for Hillbillies

In the late 1940s, St. Louis radio was a sort of hillbilly heaven, and it seemed that every station had to have a group. In...

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St. Louis’ Department Store Station

When the radio business caught fire in the early 1920s, there were several major types of owners, each with good reasons to build radio stations....

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Staff Organist Was A Child Prodigy

Diminutive Ruth Hulse Nelson who is regularly heard over KMOX, the Voice of St. Louis, in piano and organ recitals, is one of the most...

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The Day The Music Died

By Roy Malone July 7 [2010] was the day lovers of classical music in the St. Louis area could hear it no more at 99.1...

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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Has Broadcast for Over Three Years and Maintained Uniformly High Standard of Service

One of the first large broadcasting stations to be established in the West was KSD of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which went on the air...