If you've ever been called a radio geek like I have, then you might like this new blog I ran across. Maybe non-geeks can like it too.The Houston Radio History blog takes a look at our fine city's AM and FM history through pictures and a lot of deep research.
Houston has a lot of history in this area, and hopefully much of it will not be forgotten as those who lived it pass away.
It's full of gems like this:
In March 23, 1922, the first license for a Houston broadcast station was issued by the Commerce Department, Bureau of Navigation, to the Hurlburt-Still Electrical Co. located at McKinney Ave. at San Jacinto St. where the company had a garage to service automobile batteries. The call letters assigned were WEV. It was the 4th broadcasting station authorized in Texas and 108th nationwide; there were estimated to be about 300 receiving sets in Houston at the time. The station was listed as an active station on the Commerce Department official lists about two and a half years broadcasting ‘music and speeches and other entertainments’ on 360 meters (833 kilocycles/kilohertz) and weather and market reports on 485 meters (619 kilocycles/kilohertz), the two frequencies set aside by the Commerce Department for broadcasting, sharing time on those two frequencies with all other stations in Houston and Galveston and the whole country for the first year.SEE THE BLOG HERE
