List of oldest radio stations
It is generally recognised that the first radio transmission was made from a temporary station set up by Guglielmo Marconi in 1895. This followed on from pioneering work in the field by a number of people including Alessandro Volta , André-Marie Ampère , Georg Ohm and James Clerk Maxwell .[ 1]
The several potential contenders for the title of "oldest radio station" are listed below, organized by sign-on date.
These are not restricted to radio broadcasting , i.e., the transmissions were not necessarily intended to reach a wide audience.
Stations
AM on mediumwave and longwave
Experimental and early radio stations (AM on mediumwave and longwave )
Stationcall-sign (original)
Stationcall-sign (current)
City/location
On air
Transmission frequency (AM radio / FM radio )
Broadcast class
Roberto Landell de Moura
n/a
São Paulo (between Paulista Avenue and Alto de Santana)[ 2]
1893
Guglielmo Marconi
n/a
Broadcast across his garden in Pontecchio , Italy.[ 1] [ 3]
1895
Experimental
Although Australia's first officially recognised broadcast was made in 1906, some sources claim that there were transmissions in Australia in 1897, either conducted solely by Professor William Henry Bragg of the University of Adelaide [ 4] [ 5] or by Prof. Bragg in conjunction with G.W. Selby of Melbourne.[ 1] [List entry too long ]
n/a
1897
Experimental. Disputed in some sources.
Guglielmo Marconi , first trans-Atlantic transmission.
n/a
from Poldhu , Cornwall to Signal Hill , St. John's, Newfoundland .[ 1] [ 3]
December 1901
Experimental
(First official Morse Code transmission in Australia )
n/a
from Queenscliff, Victoria to Devonport, Tasmania
1906
Experimental
(Reginald Fessenden experimental alternator station)
BO[ 6]
Brant Rock , Massachusetts , United States
21 December 1906 (Audio tests from various locations from as early as 1900)
AM 50 kHz (approximately)
? W
Lee de Forest (laboratory in the Parker Building )
[?]
New York City, New York, United States
1907
AM ? kHz (approximately)
? W
(Beloit College Professor Dr. Charles Aaron Culver)
[WBCR , WBNB, WEBW]
Beloit, Wisconsin , United States
1907[ 7]
AM ? kHz (approximately) now airs on 90.3 FM .
? W
FN/SJN/6XF/6XE /KQW /"San Jose"
KCBS
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
XWA
CINW
Montreal , Quebec, Canada
August 1914 – 1 December 1919 – May 1922 – 29 January 2010
AM 940 kHz (Not original frequency). Considered by many Canadians to be "First scheduled broadcast station;" prior call sign CFCF stood for C anada's F irst, C anada's F inest.
Class-A (Clear channel ); XWA Experimental and W/T School station licence starting end of 1914,[ 8] regular broadcasting test emissions starting 1 December 1919 with XWA being replaced in May 1922 by private commercial broadcasting licence CFCF;[ 9] AM station CINW ceased operations on 29 January 2010.
2YU
WRUC
Union College , Schenectady, New York
1915[ 10]
Various Frequencies AM , switched in 1975 to 90.9 FM , & moved in 1983 to 89.7 FM
Original: Technical & Training School License, Current: Class-A
2XI
WGY
Schenectady, New York
20 February 1922
AM 810 kHz
Class-A
9ZP, 9CLS
KGFX
Pierre, South Dakota
The station's roots date back to 1912 when Dana McNeil, was first licensed as 9ZP. In 1916, he was licensed as 9CLS. According to the FCC's card file for the station, the broadcast license for KGFX was first issued on 15 August 1927, with the licensee listed as Dana McNeil, The station was originally at 1180 kHz, moving to 580 kHz in 1928. In 1932, it moved to 630 kHz, where it remained until 1967.As of 2018 KGFX 1060AM continues to broadcast local content at 10 kW power in Pierre, SD. With an FM translator broadcasting at 107.1[List entry too long ]
Various frequencies,
2XG
New York City
1916
Unknown
Unknown (see also Lee de Forest [above].)
8XK , 8ZZ
KDKA
Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania
1916
AM 1020 kHz
75 watts (1916), Class-A (1920–present). Began simulcasting on shortwave in 1923 as 8XS.
Irish rebel station
none
General Post Office , Sackville Street , Dublin , Ireland
24 April 1916
Morse code only (Despite this claimed[where? ] by some[who? ] to be "world's first broadcast" as transmission not aimed at specific target)
converted ship transmitter
9XM
WHA
University of Wisconsin–Madison , Madison, Wisconsin
4 December 1916 (regular Morse code weather broadcasts; first voice broadcast in February 1919; regular programming January 1921)
AM 970 kHz
Class-B
First direct communication Australia to the United Kingdom
n/a
AWA ; Ernest Fisk ; Sydney
1918
AM 21 kHz
[ 11]
7AC/7XC
KJR
Seattle, WA, USA
1919
AM 833 kHz/619 kHz, then various frequencies; currently AM 950 kHz & FM 102.9 MHz
[ 12]
Rádio Clube de Pernambuco
same name as well
Recife , Pernambuco,
1919
AM 720 kHz
Made the first radiophonic broadcast in Brazil, but the first radio officially acknowledged was Rádio Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (actually, Rádio MEC ). Also, it is one of the oldest stations in the world.[List entry too long ]
First Australian experiment in the broadcast of music
n/a
AWA ; Ernest Fisk ; Sydney
8 August 1919
AM
[ 11]
Doubleday-Hill radio department station[ 13] [ 14]
KQV [ 15]
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
19 November 1919[ 13] [ 14] [ 16]
Currently AM 1410 kHz
Currently Class D
(Experimental Czech tests)
Petřínská rozhledna (Petřín Lookout Tower), Prague , Czechoslovakia
28 October 1919 (Experimental), 20 May 1920
AM ??? kHz
?? kW
2MT (Marconi experimental station with a regular news service)
Writtle, Chelmsford , Essex, England
23 February 1920
AM 107 kHz
15 kW
LOR Radio Argentina
LOR
Buenos Aires , Argentina
27 August 1920
Continued daily commercial broadcast up to 1997
AM 857 kHz[ 17]
5 Watts initially, 500 Watts by 1921
6ADZ
KNX
Los Angeles, California
Summer 1920, granted broadcasting station license 1921
AM 1070 kHz
Class-A
8MK
WWJ
Detroit, Michigan
20 August 1920
AM 950 kHz
Class-B
KDKA
same as original.
Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania
27 October 1920 (Aired as 8ZZ that night)
AM 1020 kHz
Class-A (Clear channel )
9AH
Toronto, Canada
18 April 1921 (as 9AH); 18 April 1922 (as CKCE) - closed September 1924
450 metres
Licensed to Canadian Independent Telephone Company of Toronto (CITCO), initially as experimental license for wireless telephony.[ 18]
9YK
WEW
St. Louis , Missouri
21 April 1921 (as 9YK); 23 March 1922 (as WEW)
AM 770 kHz
Class-D
WRR
KTCK
Dallas , Texas
4 August 1921 (broadcasts date back to 1920)
AM 1310 kHz
WBZ
Same as original.
Boston , Massachusetts
19 September 1921
AM 1030 kHz
Class-A (Clear channel )
XEH-AM
Same as original.
San Nicolás de los Garza , Nuevo León
9 October 1921
AM 1420 kHz
Class-B
KYW
same as original
Chicago, Illinois (1921)[ 19] Philadelphia , Pennsylvania (1934)[ 20] Cleveland , Ohio (1956) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1965)[ 21]
11 November 1921
AM 560 kHz, 570 kHz, 1020 kHz (Chicago) AM 1020 kHz (Philadelphia) AM 1100 kHz (Cleveland)) AM 1060 kHz (Philadelphia)
Class-A (Clear channel )
Experimental broadcasts by Professor Robert Jack[ 22] of Otago University
4XD
Dunedin, New Zealand
17 November 1921
experimental
New Zealand's first regular broadcasts of voice and music[ 23]
2CM
Charles Maclurcan; Sydney
1921
AM 214 kHz
Australia's first experimental station [ 11]
Radio Journal de la Tour Eiffel (Eiffel Tower Newsreel)
France Inter
Paris, France
1921
"Long wave" 115 kHz (2600 m)
N/A
WCAT
Rapid City, South Dakota
1922
AM 618 kHz (1922–?) AM 1200 kHz 1928–1941 AM 1230 kHz 1941–1952
9-BC, 9-XR, 9-BY, WOC
WOC
Davenport, Iowa
1922
1420 kHz (1942–present)
Class-B
WLB
KUOM
Saint Paul, Minnesota
13 January 1922
AM 770 kHz
Class-D
WHN
WEPN
Ridgewood, New York
February 1922,[ 24] some sources cite 18 March 1922
AM 833 kHz
Class-A
KLZ
same as original
Denver , Colorado
10 March 1922[ 25]
AM 560 kHZ
www.KLZradio.com , Colorado's First Station, Class-B
WSB
Same as original
Atlanta , Georgia
15 March 1922[ 26]
Originally on 360 meters (AM 833 kHz), moved across the dial and eventually assigned to AM 750 kHz following the NARBA treaties
Class-A (Clear channel )
WIP
WTEL
Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
17 March 1922
AM 610 kHz
Class-B
WLW
WLW
Cincinnati , Ohio
23 March 1922
AM 700 kHz
Class-A (Clear channel )
WWL
same as original
New Orleans , Louisiana
31 March 1922
AM 870 kHz
Class A
WGU
WSCR
Chicago, Illinois
13 April 1922
Originally AM 833 kHz, became WMAQ at 750 kHz on 2 October 1922, moved to 670 kHz on 2 July 1923
Class-A
KHJ
KHJ
Los Angeles, California
13 April 1922
AM 720 kHz, founded by C.R. Kierulff & Co., sold to Times-Mirror Company in late 1922
Class-A
KFI
KFI
Los Angeles, California
16 April 1922
AM 640 kHz, founded by Earle C. Anthony
Class-A
4XD
WBT
Charlotte, North Carolina
18 December 1920, License granted 10 April 1922
AM 1110 kHz
Class-A
CKOC
CKOC
Hamilton, Ontario
1 May 1922
410 metres (1922–1925)
AM 880 kHz (1925–1930)
AM 1120 kHz (1930–1931)
AM 630 kHz (1931–1933)
AM 1120 kHz (1933–1941)
AM 1150 kHz (1941—present)
Class B
KZN
KSL
Salt Lake City , Utah and vicinity
6 May 1922
AM 1160 kHz(1941–present)
Class A (Clear channel)
2LO
2LO
London, United Kingdom
11 May 1922
1 hour daily tests on 350 metres (857 kHz) AM. Full service opened: 14 November 1922
2ZY
2ZY
Manchester , United Kingdom
17 May 1922
Test TXs: 350 metres (857 kHz) AM. Full service opened 15 November 1922: 375 meters
CFCA
none
Toronto , Canada
22 June 1922 — 1 September 1933
Began testing on 450 metres on 10 April 1922, licensed for 400 metres beginning 22 June 2022. Moved to 770 kHz in 1928.
KFBL
KRKO
Everett, Washington, USA
26 August 1922[ 27]
AM 1380 kHz (1958–present)
Class B (Regional)
CKAC
same as original
Montreal , Quebec/Montreal, Québec , Canada
12 September 1922
AM 730 kHz
Class-A
DN
4XD
Dunedin , New Zealand
4 October 1922
originally AM 1431 kHz, now AM 1305 kHz and FM 99.8 MHz
9BT
CFRC-FM
Kingston, Ontario , Canada
7 October 1922
450 metres (666 kHz) (ca.1923–1925), AM 1120 kHz (1925–1930), AM 930 kHz (1930–1933), AM 915 kHz (c. 1933), AM 1510 kHz (1933–1941), AM 1490 kHz (1941–1990) concurrently FM 91.9 MHz (1954–1990) (now FM 101.9 MHz)
Class-A
5IT
5IT
Birmingham , United Kingdom
15 November 1922
Not known
WNAX
same as original
Yankton, South Dakota
25 November 1922
AM 570 kHz
WKAQ
same as original
San Juan, Puerto Rico
3 December 1922
AM 580 kHz
Class-B
Radio Ceylon
Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation
Colombo , Sri Lanka
1923 (experimental), 1925 (official launch) – present
"Long wave" 375 kHz
1500 W[ 28]
WKBV William Knox BrookVille
Same as is
Richmond, Indiana Whitewater Broadcasting
1923
AM 1000 kHz 24/7
Class B
Radio Chilena (Chile Radio Company)
CB66
Santiago , Chile
October 1922 (experimental), 26 March 1923 (official launch) – 2005
AM 660 kHz
PKX (Malabar Radio )
n/a
Bandung , Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia )
5 May 1923
Long wave
Radiojournal
Český rozhlas Radiožurnál
Prague -Kbely , Czechoslovakia
18 May 1923
"Long wave" 292 kHz (1025 m)[verification needed ]
[ 29] [ 30]
CYB "El Buen Tono"
XEB-AM (Instituto Mexicano de la Radio )
Mexico City , Mexico
23 September 1923[ 31]
AM 1220 kHz
N/A
Finland's first private public broadcasting station. 3NB
3NB, Tampere
Tampere , Tavastia
1 November 1923
AM kHz
[ 32]
Australia's first official station. 2SB ; 2BL as from 1 March 1924
ABC Radio Sydney
Sydney
23 November 1923. One of six Sealed Set system stations;
AM 855 kHz
[ 33] [ 34]
XRO
n/a
Shanghai, China
November 1923
AM 1500 kHz
50 Watts (1923). First radio station in China.[ 35]
2FC
2RN, Radio National
Sydney
12 December 1923. One of six Sealed Set system stations;
AM 273 kHz
[ 33] [ 34]
Radio Ibérica
N/A
Madrid , Spain
22 December 1923.;
AM 729 kHz
N/A
19 September 1924
Radio Belgrade
Belgrade , Serbia
19 September 1924.;
AM 684 kHz
N/A
3AR
3RN, Radio National
Melbourne , Victoria, Australia
26 January 1924. One of six Sealed Set system stations;
AM 625 kHz
[ 36] [ 34]
WES
WLS
Chicago, Illinois
Owned by Sears Roebuck , WLS would come to stand for the World's Largest Store. Sears ran broadcasts from WMAQ studios as WBBX in March 1924. WES tests were conducted 9 to 11 April 1924. WLS would begin on 12 April and became one of 25 original 50,000 watt "Clear Channel" system stations;
Originally AM 870 kHz, AM 890 kHz
Class-A
6WF
720 ABC Perth
Perth , Western Australia
4 June 1924. One of six Sealed Set system stations;
AM 240 kHz
[ 37] [ 34]
N/A
Radio Bloemendaal
Bloemendaal , Netherlands
15 June 1924
originally AM 1500 kHz (200m) later AM 1223 kHz (245 m) currently AM 1116 kHz (269 m)
various
VOWR/8WMC
800 AM
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
24 July 1924
800 AM
VOWR - Wikipedia
URI (Unione Radiofonica Italiana ), 1-RO
Rai Radio 1
Rome, Italy
6 October 1924
AM 705 (425m) kHz
KFUO
Same as original
St. Louis, Missouri
14 December 1924
AM 850 kHz
Class-B
KOA
same as original
Denver , Colorado, United States
15 December 1924 One of 25 original 50,000 watt "Clear Channel" system stations
AM850 kHz
Statsradiofonien
DR P1
Copenhagen , Denmark
1 April 1925 (experimental), license granted April 1926, Regular broadcast from April 1926
"Long wave"
N/A
WCSH
WZAN
Portland, Maine
1925
"Long wave"
N/A
Radio Poland
Warsaw , Poland
1 February 1925 (experimental), Regular broadcast from 18 April 1926
"Medium wave"
N/A
N/A
Radio Romania
Bucharest , Romania
Summer 1925 – 1927 (experimental), license granted March 1928, Regular broadcast from 1 November 1928
"Long wave"
N/A
2BE . Australia's first commercial station. Burgin Electric Company.
n/a
Sydney
7 November 1924 to 6 November 1929
AM 870 kHz. (Wavelength later taken by 2GB .)[ 38]
B Class , commercial[ 34]
WEBK
WOOD
Grand Rapids, Michigan , United States
16 September 1924
AM 1130 kHz, presently on 1300 kHz,
Class-B
3LO
774 ABC Melbourne
Melbourne , Victoria, Australia
13 October 1924. One of six Sealed Set system stations;
AM 175 kHz
[ 36] [ 34]
5MA
n/a
Adelaide , South Australia
April 1924 to early 1925. One of six Sealed Set system stations.
Does not appear to have actually broadcast
see Arthur William Jarrett
2UE . Australia's third commercial station, and the oldest commercial station still operating.
2UE
Sydney
26 January 1925
AM 1025 kHz
B Class , commercial.[ 34] Was originally going to broadcast as 2EU, but the callsign was reversed prior to the licence being issued on 7 November 1924.
JOAK
same as is
Tokyo, Japan
22 March 1925
AM 594 kHz
Bataviase Radio Vereniging
RRI Jakarta stations (part of RRI )
Batavia , Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta , Indonesia)
16 June 1925
CHRC
CHRC
Quebec City, Quebec /Quebec City, Quebec , Canada
1 April 1926
AM 800 kHz
Class-B. Final broadcast in 2012.
Lietuvos Radijas
LRT Radijas
Kaunas, Lithuania
26 June 1926
AM 1961 kHz
XOH, later COHB
PBS Harbin News Radio
Harbin , China
1 October 1926
AM 1071 kHz (1926) AM 674 kHz (1928, as COHB) AM 1055 kHz (1945, as XMHR) AM 837 kHz (1949 to present)
100 Watts, 1928 1 kW. First radio station founded by Chinese.[ 39]
CFCO
same as is
Chatham, Ontario /Chatham-Kent, Ontario , Canada
September 1927
AM 630 kHz
Class-B
JODK
HLKA
Seoul , South Korea
1927
AM 711 kHz
GOW, ZBW
RTHK
Hong Kong
30 June 1928 (GOW, now RTHK 3)
1XE
became WGI February 1922 (and WARC March 1925)
Medford, Massachusetts
1916 sporadically, then 1919–1920 till April 1925
? – later on 833 kHz
2XN
City College of New York , New York City
1913; 1920
2ZK
New Rochelle, New York
1916
NSF/HDO, later ANDO and AVRO
NPO
Huizen (transmitter), Hilversum (studio), Netherlands
21 July 1923, from 1930 part of Dutch Public Radio
AM 279 kHz, 1927 also 1004 kHz, today FM network
500 W, 1927 5 kW
2RN (Irish Free State radio)
RTÉ (Irish national radio & television)[ 40]
General Post Office (O'Connell Street ), Dublin , Ireland
1 January 1926
AM 380 kHz, and from Cork AM612 kHz,
NDO, 50% time KRO, 50% NCRV
NPO
Huizen (transmitter), Hilversum (studio), Netherlands
1927, from 1930 part of Dutch Public radio
AM 160 kHz,1935 transmitter moved to Kootwijk, 1938 also Jaarsveld 722 kHz, today FM network and 747/1251 kHz
Huizen 15 kW, Kootwijk day 15 kW, evening 120 kW, Jaarsveld 20 kW
2TM
2TM
Tamworth , Australia
27 February 1935
1287 kHz
FM or shortwave
Experimental or early radio stations (FM and shortwave )
Stationcall-sign (original)
Stationcall-sign (current)
City/location
On air
Transmission frequency (AM radio / FM radio )
Broadcast class
PCGG
N/A
The Hague , Netherlands
6 November 1919 – 11 November 1924
Narrow-band FM, 570 m
N/A
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
HF (Shortwave)
XS (1921-1929), W8XK (1929-1939), WPIT (1939-1940)[ 41]
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
November 1920 – December 1939 Owned and operated by Westinghouse Electric Corporation . Used to relay KDKA signal to AM rebroadcasters in other cities.[ 42] Broadcast programming from KDKA , and also broadcast Northern Messenger to the Arctic. Merged with WBOS (1940) and became a VOA transmitter (1942).
15,210 kHz, 11,880 kHz, 6,140 kHz[ 43]
40 kW (1937)[ 44]
PCJJ
Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Philips Laboratories at Eindhoven , Netherlands , moved to Hilversum in 1933.
The first shortwave station in Europe. 25 June 1926 (test transmissions began), and the first shortwave station in the world with its own dedicated programming rather than being a simulcast of an AM/MW or LW station such as KDKA . Regular broadcast from 30 May 1927 to May 1940 when the station went dark due to the German occupation of Holland; resumed after liberation October 1945 – 1946 when Philips and other shortwave radio stations taken over by Radio Netherlands Worldwide. Sister station PHI broadcast in Dutch to the Dutch East and West Indies from 1928 to 1930 and 1934 to 1949.
30.2 metres shortwave
G2NM[ 45]
Caterham, Surrey, England
11 September 1927.
23 and 33 metres
1 kW
CKUA
CKUA Radio Network
Edmonton , Alberta (broadcast province-wide)
27 November 1927
500-watt (Original) AM 580 kHz (Edmonton) Various FM frequencies province-wide
B
VE9GW
CRCX
Bowmanville , Ontario
April 1930 – 1938 – used to relay CRCT (later CBL) to northern Ontario, northern Manitoba and the Canadian Arctic
6.095 MHz (primarily), 11.810 MHz, 24.380 MHz
25 watt (initially), 200 watts (1031), 500 watts (1932)
HVJ
Vatican Radio
Vatican City
12 February 1931
10 kW (originally)
HCJB
HCJB
Quito, Ecuador
25 December 1931
50.26 metres, later 6050 kHz, 9745 kHz, 11775 kHz and 15155 kHz.
200 watts (initially), 1,000 watt (1937), 10,000 watt (1940), 100,000 (1967), 500,000 (1981)
W8XH
Buffalo, New York
18 March 1934 – July 1939. Replaced in 1944 with an FM station, now known as WTSS .
51.4 & 41.0 MHz
Apex (ultra-shortwave)
W1XOJ
Paxton, Massachusetts /Boston , Massachusetts
1937
Unknown
W1XPW, briefly W65H
WHCN
Hartford, Connecticut
1939
102.9 FM
W2XMN
Alpine, New Jersey
1939 – 1946
42.8 MHz, later 44.1 MHz
W2XDA (Schenectady)/W2XOY (New Scotland ), later WGFM
WRVE
Schenectady, New York
1939, 20 November 1940 as W2XOY[ 46]
Originally on FM 48.5 MHz, now FM 99.5
Unknown
W47NV
N/A
Nashville, Tennessee
1941 to 1951
Unknown
Networks
See also
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