Entercom Celebrates 100 Years of KNX 1070 News Radio

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

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Just a few weeks ago WWJ celebrated their 100th anniversary also an Entercom Owned station. Its interesting to see Entercom own some of the oldest radio stations in the Country from KCBS-AM, WWJ-AM, KNX-AM and KDKA-AM.

 

[KeithE4]

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Just a few weeks ago WWJ celebrated their 100th anniversary...

That's a stretch, just like the early operations of other pioneer broadcasters like KQW/KCBS, WWJ, KDKA, and WHA, which started as amateur or experimental stations. It may not have been the first broadcast station on the air, but KDKA was the first to receive a broadcast license, on 10/22/1920. It had been on the air as ham station 8ZZ before that.

In the case of KNX, it also started out as a ham station, 6ADZ, on 9/10/1920. Hams had limited broadcasting authority for a few years post-WW1. It wasn't licensed as a commercial station and assigned the KNX call letters until May 1922. So, it's actually 98 years old under its present license.

 

[TheBigA]

Its interesting to see Entercom own some of the oldest radio stations in the Country

That's what happens when you buy CBS Radio.

 

[davideduardo]

That's a stretch, just like the early operations of other pioneer broadcasters like KQW/KCBS, WWJ, KDKA, and WHA, which started as amateur or experimental stations. It may not have been the first broadcast station on the air, but KDKA was the first to receive a broadcast license, on 10/22/1920. It had been on the air as ham station 8ZZ before that.

In the case of KNX, it also started out as a ham station, 6ADZ, on 9/10/1920. Hams had limited broadcasting authority for a few years post-WW1. It wasn't licensed as a commercial station and assigned the KNX call letters until May 1922. So, it's actually 98 years old under its present license.

Those were both amateur broadcast stations, not ham stations. A ham station tries to establish two-way communication with other such stations. An amateur/hobbyist/experimenter station was intended just for reception.

 

[KeithE4]

Those were both amateur broadcast stations, not ham stations.

Between 1919, when civilian use of radio was restored after the war, and early 1922, when broadcasting by hams was banned, amateur licensees had the authority to broadcast. The ban was supposed to be temporary, but it was never restored. There was no difference in license between hams that broadcast and those who didn't.

Here's one on ham radio after the war, mentioning the boom and end of amateur broadcasting: https://earlyradiohistory.us/sec015.htm
Here are several notes on amateur and experimental broadcasting between 1918 and 1921: http://earlyradiohistory.us/sec016.htm

A ham station tries to establish two-way communication with other such stations.

I know. I've been a ham for 50 years. They've never let me broadcast, other than test, beacon, or bulletin transmissions (which are legal).

 

[Signal Geek]

KNX may have been on the air in one form or another for 100 years, but it's only been an all-news station since about 1968.

 

[TheBigA]

Bob Crane was the morning man at KNX from 1957 until Hogan's Heroes became a big hit in 1965.

A few years after he left, they flipped to all news. A few weeks later, Robert F. Kennedy was killed at the Ambassador Hotel in Hollywood moments after winning the California presidential primary.