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Happy 100th Birthday, WPTF!

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RadioDaze

On September 22, 1924, WFBQ radio signed on the air. While not Raleigh's first station--that was NC State's short-lived WLAC in 1922--it is the longest-running. WFBQ was later known as WRCO and finally WPTF when Durham Life Insurance bought the station in 1927 and dubbed it with the acronym of their company's slogan 'We Protect The Family'. Durham Life would own WPTF for nearly 65 years. Curtis Media has owned WPTF for the last three decades.
 
Grew up listening to WPTF. Bill Jackson, Wally Ausley, Bar Ritner, Bob Farrington, all were daily staples on the kitchen radio in the mornings. When something happened, like a snow storm or an ice storm, WPTF was the go to station for school closings, information on power outages, etc. NC State basketball was always a draw.

On weekends (after NBC dropped "Monitor" there was the Texaco Metropolitan Opera, "Toscanini, The Man Behind the Legend" on Sunday afternoons. When Kennedy was shot, my junior high put the NBC Radio feed on the PA system.

I had the privilege of doing weekends there for a short while and actually did the last ID on WPTF-FM before they changed to album rock.

I'm getting old, but the memories seem to be just as sweet.
 
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