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PMMBH, INC. is a non profit organization made up of Pennsylvanians who want and have a desire to preserve the memories and performances of all those who have created, owned or performed as well as broadcasted media and or music from within Pennsylvania’s borders and beyond.
We are dedicated to one ideal. That ideal is to do our very best to make sure the incredible memories made yesterday, today and tomorrow are never lost or misplaced. It is our goal to seek and protect as much of Pennsylvania’s history of music and broadcast history as we can and to make room for today’s contributors and tomorrow’s potential stars.
Further, we hope that assembling this mammoth archive will allow us to offer the archives and assets to educational causes in both lower and higher educational institutions and to anyone interested in Pennsylvania’s vast history of the genre.
We hope to offer audio and video studios for the purposes of teaching future musicians and broadcasters to bring excellence to their art as well as recording and preserving present and future performances.
We also desire to offer facilities that will house and offer performance of all kinds to the public for the public good. Promoting and preserving the excellence that has graced this state for centuries will finally be available in one place. It is our hope with the help of many others that we can achieve these lofty goals and ideas.
Harrisburg Broadcasting
Coming August 1, 2011!
Harrisburg Broadcasting by Tim Portzline, part of the “Images of America” series by Arcadia Publishing ™
The history of broadcasting in the Harrisburg area dates back to 1922 when the Pennsylvania State Police began operating radio station WBAK. WABB soon started a year later. WHBG and WPRC came along in 1925. Only the latter two stations would survive beyond the 1930s. WHBG became WHP in 1929 and WPRC became WKBO in the early 1930s. In 1946, WHP-FM (97.3 MHz) became Harrisburg’s first FM station. By 1949, WGAL, located just east of Harrisburg, became the first television station between Pittsburghand Philadelphia.
Harrisburg Broadcasting includes nearly 200 photographs spanning nine decades of radio and TV from the greater Central Pennsylvania, including personalities such as Mike Ross, Ron Drake, Mac McCauley, Andy Musser, Joe Harper, Pete Wambach, Ed K. Smith, Dick Redmond, Abe Redmond, Bob Alexander, Dan Steele, Carol Crissey, Chris Andree, John St. John, Jim Buchanan, Janelle Stelson, Chuck Rhodes, RJ Harris, "Nancy and Newman", Tod Jeffers, Bruce Bond, Tim Burns, Sue Campbell, Scott Shaw, Hollywood Heffelfinger, Toby Young, Olin Harris, Ed Gundaker, Ron Martin, Keith Martin, Kim Lemon, Wendall Woodbury, Dennis Owens, Alicia Richards, Richard Seneca, Jeff Kauffman, Ed Coffey, Dennis Edwards, Melanie Apple, Chris Tyler, Bob Durgin, Michael Parks, Tom Shannon, Scott Fortney, and MANY others!
Look for Harrisburg Broadcasting at any store or online bookseller that carries Arcadia's "Images of America" series!