[IRCA] KWTO-560 MO 75th anniversary

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** U S A. On 25 Dec, local station KWTO 560 celebrated 75 years on the air. I missed their anniversary broadcast, but was able to attend the open house on 27 Dec. They had a lot on display, including antique radios and tubes, photos, sheet music, and many other items. They also played recordings of music programs from the 1950s.

Nowadays KWTO is a talk radio format, but 50 years ago it was really something. Enclosed is a commemorative issue of The Dial, a paper the station used to put out. This is a gift for all that you`ve done for DXers. Best wishes in `09 (Bill Wilkins, Springfield MO, 29 Dec, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Tnx, Bill! Yes, a very nice 19-page booklet with many photos, repros of articles from the past and a full week`s program schedule from August, 1950: lots and lots of mainly ABC network radio shows lasting 15, 30 or 60 minutes, an inconceivable format today. A sample for Saturday night; what in the world were the 8 and 9 pm shows about?

 7:00 Dixieland Jazz Band
 7:30 Million Dollar Ballroom
 8:00 Norman Brokenshire
 9:00 The Martinique
 9:30 Saturday at the Shamrock
10:00 Newscast
10:15 Tops in Sports
10:30 Popular Orchestra
11:55 News [and off the air until 6:30 am Sundays; 5:00 am Otherdays]

Perhaps those interested in radio history and/or KWTO in particular could get a copy of the 75th Anniversary Commemorative Edition Dial on request from KWTO. 

We are on the margin of KWTO`s daytime coverage area and can barely hear it when noise is minimum; but who needs another Rush Limbaugh affiliate? However, Jim Bohannon is an alumnus, and I believe was back there for the anniversary. The NRC Pattern Book shows quite a complex direxional antenna array, similar but not identical day and night: main lobes to NW and WSW, with nulls toward Denver, Chicago, Memphis and Beaumont. It looks like not a single US station on 560 is non-direxional at night (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)


      
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