Friday, October 3, 2025

N.C. Had Three Radio Stations in 1925: Fort Bragg, Raleigh, Charlotte, Oct. 4, 1925

According to www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Radex/Radex-1925-Crowley.pdf, North Carolina had three radio stations in 1925:

WBT, wavelength 275, frequency 1090, 250 watts, Class A station owned by Southern Radio Corporation, 1116 Realty Building.

The state had two other radio stations: AT 9 at Fort Bragg (435 wavelength, 689 frequency); and WFBQ broadcasting from Raleigh, (252 wavelength, 1190 frequency).

South Carolina had three radio stations, broadcasting from Charleston, Clemson, Greenville). Tennessee had nine radio stations, three broadcasting from Memphis, two from Nashville and one each from Columbia, Knoxville, Lawrenceburg and Tullahoma. And Virginia had five stations broadcasting from Norfolk, Richmond, Roanoke and Thrifton.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Oct. 3, 1925

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073201/1925-10-03/ed-1/seq-1/

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