William Erwin Antony
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William Erwin Antony founded and/or was the engineer for 25 radio stations in the Shreveport Louisiana area. This includes KWKH, WAAG, WGAQ, KGDX, WMAU, KFHF, KGGH, KTSL, KWEA and even early experimental stations like 4CK and 5ZS.
He built the actual transmitter and antenna (the Telsine) for very first TV station in the entire south.The picture and the audio channels were licensed separately as W9XX and W5XA respectively. nice article about that station here: The first image he transmitted was a still picture of a cartoon character known as krazy kat.
After all of that he helped create the radio detonators used for the atomic bombs that went off over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He died in 1964.
