A.M. 790's anniversary

[N1WVQ]

Thanks to Google archiving the old Providence News newspaper, it appears WEAN came on the air June 14th 1922 (Flag Day). I haven't found an earlier listing for WEAN going back to June 2nd which is what the Providence Journal Almanac had reported. It appears regularly scheduled programming started @ 3P that day. The link I'm using is: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Dnd9Dw9jpwAC&dat=19220614&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

 

[DG02816]

I found the section featuring 790, and you'll notice at that time all stations were on a single wavelength, 360 meters. This would be 833 kHz today. 89 years on the air!

 

[N1WVQ]

Yup! All entertainment stations were on 360m, I think agricultural (& weather?) stations were on 485 (619kc.). I saw that wavelength in later editions but I also saw WEAN (and WNAC) had moved to 273m by then. Towards the end of the '20s WEAN had settled on 780kc. with WJAR on 890. The 9/6/22 edition has the opening programming for WJAR!