List of oldest radio stations

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The title of Oldest Radio Station is a controversial one, but can be assumed from several in Europe (particularly of the UK and Germany), and in the United States and Canada.

Several potential contenders for the title of "Oldest radio station" are listed below, organized by sign-on date:

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Table of Experimental Radio Stations (AM/Mediumwave/Longwave)
Radio
Call-sign
(Original)		 Radio
Call-sign
(Current)		 City/Location On Air Broadcast Frequency
(AM Radio / FM Radio)		 Broadcast class
(Reginald Fessenden experimental alternator station) Brant Rock, Massachusetts , United States December 21 , 1906 (Audio tests from various locations from as early as 1900) AM 50 kHz (aprox)  ? W
FN/SJN/6XF/6XE/KQW/"San Jose" KCBS (AM) San Jose, California/San Francisco, California 1909, 1921 (officially granted experimental license as KQW, become commercial in 1921, and KCBS in 1949) AM 740 kHz (Originally used 15 watts modulated with Carbon microphone) Class-B
2XI WGY-AM Albany, New York 1915? AM 810 kHz Class-A
9ZP Pierre, South Dakota 1915?
2XG New York City, New York 1916 Unknown Unknown
8XK, 8ZZ KDKA Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1916 AM 1020 kHz 75 watts (1916), Class-A (1920-present)
Irish rebel station 2RN/RTE (First radio studio) General Post Office, Sackville Street (O'Connell Street), Dublin, Ireland April 24, 1916 morse code only (Despite this claimed by some to be "world's first broadcast" as transmission not aimed at specific target)) converted ship transmitter
9XM WHA-AM University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin December 4, 1916 (regular Morse code weather broadcasts; first voice broadcast in February 1919; regular programming January 1921) AM 970 kHz Class-B
(Experimental Czech tests) Petřínská rozhledna (Petřín Lookout Tower), Prague, Czechoslovakia October 28, 1919 (Experimental),
May 20, 1920		 AM ??? kHz  ?? kW
PCGG N/A The Hague, the Netherlands November 6, 1919 - 1924 Unknown N/A
XWA CINW Montreal, Quebec December 1, 1919 AM 940 kHz Considered by many Canadians to be "First scheduled broadcast station" Class-A (Clear channel)
("2MT" Marconi experimental station with a regular news service) Writtle, Chelmsford, Essex, England February 23, 1920 AM 107 kHz 15 kW
LOR Radio Argentina LOR Buenos Aires, Argentina August 26, 1920
6ADZ KHJ-AM Los Angeles, California Summer 1920, granted license 1922 AM 930 kHz Class-B
KDKA KDKA Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania October 27, 1920 (May have aired as 8ZZ that night) AM 1020 kHz Class-A (Clear channel)
8MK WWJ-AM Detroit, Michigan August 20, 1920 AM 950 kHz Class-B
WRR KTCK Dallas, Texas August 4, 1921 (Unlicensed broadcasts date back to 1920) AM 1310 kHz
WLB KUOM Saint Paul, Minnesota January 13, 1922 AM 770 kHz Class-D
WIP-AM WIP-AM Philadelphia, Pennsylvania March 17, 1922 AM 610 kHz Class-B
4XD WBT-AM Charlotte, North Carolina December 18, 1920, License granted April 10, 1922 AM 1110 kHz Class-A
Regular Czech service Prague-Kbely Prague-Kbely, Czechoslovakia May 18, 1923? "Long wave" article
Radio Journal de la Tour Eiffel
(Eiffel Tower Newsreel)		 France Inter Paris, France 1921 "Long wave"
115 kHz (2600 m)		 N/A
WKBV-AM
William Knox BrookVille		 WKBV-AM Richmond, Indiana
Whitewater Broadcasting		 1923 AM 1000 kHz 24/7 Class B
N/A Radio Romania Bucharest, Romania Summer 1925 - 1927 (experimental), license granted March 1928, Regular broadcast from November 1, 1928 "Long wave" N/A
CFCO CFCO Chatham, Ontario/Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada September, 1927 AM 630 kHz Class-B
GOW, ZBW RTHK Hong Kong 1928
1XE off the air - later as WGI (and WARC until 1925) Boston, Massachusetts mid 1920  ? - later on 833 kHz
2XN City College of New York, New York City, New York 1913; 1920
2ZK New Rochelle, New York 1916

Table of Experimental Radio Stations (FM and Shortwave)
Radio
Call-sign
(Original)		 Radio
Call-sign
(Current)		 City/Location On Air Broadcast Frequency
(AM Radio / FM Radio)		 Broadcast class
WWV US Government Time Service WWV Fort Collins, Colorado "6 months before KDKA" (May 1920) 2.5 MHz, 5 MHz, 10 MHz, 15 MHz and 20 MHz Unknown
G2NM[1] Caterham, Surrey, England September 11, 1927 23 and 33 meters 1 kW
W8HX (later WBEN-FM) WTSS Buffalo, New York 1934 5 meters
(now 102.5 MHz)		 Ultra-shortwave
W1XOJ WAAF Westborough, Massachusetts / Boston, Massachusetts 1937 FM 107.3 MHz,
(Simulcasts on 97.7 MHz)		 Unknown
W1XPW, briefly W65H WDRC-FM Hartford, Connecticut 1939 102.9 FM
W2XDA (Schenectady)/W2XOY (New Scotland), later WGFM WRVE Schenectady, New York 1939, Nov. 20 1940 as WGFM Originally on FM 48.5 mHz, now FM 99.5 Unknown
W47NV WSM-FM Nashville, Tennessee March 1, 1945 FM 95.5 MHz,
(Not original frequency)		 Unknown

[edit] See also

[edit] Individual Stations

[edit] References

  1. ^ Clarricoats, John (1967). World at their fingertips, pub. RSGB, pp. 130-132

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