I meant to post this yesterday, which was WSB's 95th birthday. The station signed on March 15th, 1922.
I meant to post this yesterday, which was WSB's 95th birthday. The station signed on March 15th, 1922.
Saw an old pic of their xmtr building and self-supporting stick in East Lake, but never got a location. Anyone have the address where it was?
Here is a link to the history of the station's first 50 years:
WSB 50th Anniversary
I believe the address was 4111 Lavista Road Tucker then in 1930 they had a CP to move to the corner of Chandler and Glenwood roads. I am not sure if LaVista go renumbered. Some counties renumbered almost everything when they did 911.
here is the FCC history cards on WSB:
https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/p...ortletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=66984&.pdf
they take a little time to download.
I believe the address was 4111 Lavista Road Tucker then in 1930 they had a CP to move to the corner of Chandler and Glenwood roads. I am not sure if LaVista go renumbered. Some counties renumbered almost everything when they did 911.
It is kind of weird that WSB started on 700. I mentally always associate 700 with Cincinnati. They were on 630 in 1927 then 740 before the big reallocation in 1941.
Here is a link to the history of the station's first 50 years:
WSB 50th Anniversary
In 2008 Mike Kavanagh passed away and left the original WSBHISTORY.COM website to the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame for preservation and maintenance. Mike was one of our founding board members. He is a 2009 Legacy inductee. We partnered with the Georgia State University Library's Special Collections department to merge their vast holdings with everything Mike passed on to us. The result is here . It is a work in progress as we have hundreds of artifacts and memorabilia which are being cataloged. Slowly but surely the never before see material is being posted, however, all the archives are available for researchers and families of former and present WSB employees. There is also a large amount of material on our website under Georgia Stations/Atlanta
Here is a link to the history of the station's first 50 years:
WSB 50th Anniversary
that later became WXIA. When the Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Constitution newspapers merged, one of the TV's had to be sold off. It later moved to Ch11 and ch 8 was reallocated to public broadcasting. Thats the story as I heard it.
Picking a nit...
Which one carried the Dumont network-the original 4th network?