WJSV complete broadcast day

[Karl W4KRL]

If you ever wanted to know what pre-TV radio was like the complete broadcast
day (19 hours) on WJSV from September 21, 1939 is at
http://archive.org/details/CompleteBroadcastDay It is divided into
individual files roughly one hour long.

 

>From Wikipedia:

 

WJSV originally came on the air in 1926 as WTRC in Brooklyn, New York then
was moved to Arlington, Virginia, the following year and became WJSV in
1928.

CBS bought the station from the previous owner in 1931, officially moved the
station to Washington, D.C., although the transmitter site remained in
Virginia. CBS made WJSV its affiliate in the nation's capital.

Among the more famous events involving WJSV was the recording of its entire
broadcast day on September 21, 1939. The recording includes many famous
radio programs of the time (including Amos 'n Andy and Major Bowes' Original
Amateur Hour), local programs featuring Arthur Godfrey and John Charles Daly
before their national successes, a Cleveland Indians-Washington Senators
baseball game, and a speech by President Franklin Roosevelt. The recording
was saved in the National Archives and still exists today; many old time
radio websites have excerpts of the WJSV broadcast day and offer copies for
sale. A sampling of the material broadcast that day was featured on the 70th
anniversary of the event on National Public Radio's All Things Considered of
September 21, 2009, also there is a copy of the entire broadcast on the
Internet Archive web page .

WJSV changed its call letters to WTOP in 1943; the station is still on the
air to this day.

 

 

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