Record #:

25446

Author(s):

Abstract:

The student-run campus radio station, WWWS, was extremely popular among students. So popular, in fact, that when the station switched to only FM broadcasting, there was a rush to switch by students on campus as well.

Source:

East: the Magazine of East Carolina University (NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 8 Issue 2, Winter 2010, p60, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Radio broadcasting--History; Radio broadcasting

Record #:

2817

Author(s):

Grundy, Pamela

Abstract:

When WBT in Charlotte, the state's first commercial radio station, began broadcasting in April, 1922, people's horizons expanded to encompass national and international events and a variety of entertainment.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 35 Issue 2, Spring 1996, p31-32, il

Subject(s):

Radio stations--Charlotte; Radio broadcasting--History

Record #:

9138

Author(s):

Stephens, Erwin D.

Abstract:

Connie B. Gay of Wake County was born on a 17-acre farm. By the 1950s, Gay owned fourteen radio stations. The first to operate a country music station in a large metropolitan area, Gay's gross fortune was estimated by THE WASHINGTON POST to be $50 million. Gay sold his businesses and retired to homes in Florida and Virginia in 1972.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 44 Issue 5, Oct 1976, p26-28, il, por

Subject(s):

Radio broadcasting--History; Radio stations; Gay, Connie Barriot, 1914-1989

Record #:

21834

Author(s):

Saintsing, Katie

Abstract:

Saintsing presents interesting facts from different dates about the state's radio pioneers, starting in 1922 when Fred Laxton, Earle Gluck, and Frank L. Bunker began broadcasting in Charlotte from Laxton's house and chicken coop up to 1994 when UNC-Chapel Hill's WXYC became the first radio station to launch a streaming Internet broadcast.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 6, Nov 2013, p38, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Radio broadcasting--History; Radio broadcasters--History

Record #:

32343

Author(s):

Julian, Dennis

Abstract:

The WPTF radio station, formerly WFBQ, began in the early 1920s as a fifty-watt broadcasting station in Raleigh and currently operates in Durham. The station was owned and operated by Wynne Radio Company, and had the motto, “We Protect The Family.” This article covers the history of the WPTF radio station and changes in the radio broadcasting industry.

Source:

We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 32 Issue 12, Dec 1974, p31-47, por

Subject(s):

WPTF-AM (Radio station: Durham); WPTF-AM (Radio station: Raleigh); Radio broadcasting--History; Radio stations