Beautiful, bright, warm day. Arose 7 A.M. Breakfast. Out on Business in A.M. Dinner. Russell & Merlin home. Packed eggs for storage. Supper. Out in evening with Russell. Called on Benedicts. Up to Norris's to hear radio concert. Home. To bed 1 A.M.
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I guess Stanford doesn't have a radio with which to listen to a concert. Interesting . . . Russell and Merlin must be home on spring break from college. I wonder why Stanford only went out with Russell and not both of them? Ah well, we can only speculate.
Radio broadcasting was in its infancy in 1922. A station in the Schenectady area, WGY, is one of the oldest radio stations in the U.S. Here is some information about it, taken from Wikipedia.
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I guess Stanford doesn't have a radio with which to listen to a concert. Interesting . . . Russell and Merlin must be home on spring break from college. I wonder why Stanford only went out with Russell and not both of them? Ah well, we can only speculate.
Radio broadcasting was in its infancy in 1922. A station in the Schenectady area, WGY, is one of the oldest radio stations in the U.S. Here is some information about it, taken from Wikipedia.
WGY signed on on February 20, 1922 at 7:47pm at 360 meters wavelength (about 833 kHz),[3] with Kolin Hager at the mike, or as he was known on the air, as KH. Hager signed on with the station's call letters, explaining the W is for wireless, G for General Electric, and Y, the last letter in Schenectady.[4] The first broadcast lasted for about one hour and consisted of live music and announcements of song titles and other information.[5] The early broadcasts originated from building 36 at the General Electric Plant in Schenectady. The original transmitter produced an antenna power of 1,500 watts into a T top wire antenna, located about 1/2 mile away, also at the GE plant.[6] WGY led the way in radio drama. In 1922 Edward H. Smith, director of a community-theater group called the Masque in nearby Troy, suggested weekly forty-minute adaptations of plays to WGY station manager Kolin Hager. Hager took him up on it and the troupe performed on the weekly WGY Players, radio’s first dramatic series.[7] WGY pioneered the art of Remote Broadcasting, carrying out the first one just days after it signed on. On February 23, 1922 the station broadcast a concert from Union College.By April 1922, they weren't the only stations broadcasting in Schenectady, but they were popular, it seems. Here is a report in the April 15th Schenectady Gazette detailing their schedule for the upcoming Easter broadcast:
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