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Harrisburg Broadcasting

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Harrisburg Broadcasting by Tim Portzline, part of the “Images of America” series by Arcadia Publishing ™

 

The history of broadcasting in the Harrisburg areadates 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!

 

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Philadelphia Radio

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Details about this book will be coming soon

PHILADELPHIA RADIO

by  Alan Boris

 
 
Philadelphia radio broadcasting began in 1922, when the city’s first officially licensed stations went on the air. Within a few years, what had begun as a small, experimental medium became a full-fledged craze as families listened to live news, sports, and entertainment for the first time. In 1932, the first building designed for radio broadcasting opened on Chestnut Street, coinciding with the golden age of radio that featured live orchestras, soap operas, and imaginative dramas. In the 1950s, a few stations began playing rock and roll, and Philadelphia became known as a city that not only produced hit music but also consistently broke new acts. 
 
By the 1970s, FM radio began to grab the majority of listeners, and once again Philadelphia stations were responsible for breaking new artists, such as Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen.  Alan Boris is a local radio historian and the founder/director of the Philadelphia Radio Archives. In  Philadelphia Radio, he has compiled a collection of rarely seen images from a variety of sources, including Philadelphia radio personalities, listeners, stations, and historical societies. 
 
Binding:  Paperback, Dimensions: 6 1⁄2” x 9 1⁄4” , Pages:  128, Photos:  200 B&W
ISBN-13: 978-0-7385-7508-7, ISBN-10: 0-7385-7508-9
Price:  $21.99
Series:  Images of America, Pub Date:  July 2011
 
Arcadia Publishing
420 Wando Park Blvd.
Mount Pleasant, SC 29464
Toll Free: 1-888-313-2665
Tel: 843-853-2070
Fax: 843-853-0044
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Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Radio

postdateiconPublished on Thursday, 01 September 2011 02:19 | postauthoriconWritten by Administrator | Print | Email | Hits: 104

 

 

About the Book and Author

Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Radio

PITTSBURGH'S GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO

by Ed Salamon

Pittsburgh is the birthplace of radio, the location of many of radio’s first and most influential stations and broadcast personalities, and a key market for the development of new formats.

 
Pittsburghers’ reaction to the music they heard on the radio helped to break records and create stars. Radio provided an unprecedented audience for live erformances by local artists. After the big band era, radio gave voice to pop, rock and roll, and rhythm and blues.  Pittsburgh’s Golden Age of Radio  celebrates the ity’s radio history, deejays, contests, concerts, public service, and promotions from radio’s beginnings in the 1920s through the late 1970s, when listening on FM exceeded that on AM for the first time.
 
 
 In 1970, KDKA hired Pittsburgher Ed Salamon to publicize its 50th anniversary. This led him to a career in radio, including programming a New York radio station, artnering with Dick Clark in a radio network, and serving as president of programming for the Westwood One Radio Network. He has also taught radio programming at Middle Tennessee State University and Belmont University. The images in  Pittsburgh’s Golden Age of Radio have been collected primarily from those who worked in Pittsburgh radio who also contributed their memories
 
Specifications of the book...
Binding:  Paperback, Dimensions: 6 1⁄2” x 9 1⁄4” , Pages:  128, Photos:  200 B&W
ISBN-13: 978-0-7385-7223-9, ISBN-10: 0-7385-7223-3
Price:  $21.99
Series:  Images of America, Pub Date:  March 2010
 
Arcadia Publishing, 420 Wando Park Blvd., Mount Pleasant, SC 29464
Toll Free: 1-888-313-2665, Tel: 843-853-2070, Fax: 843-853-0044
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