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		<title>When Broadcasting Really Began &#8211; Refuting the KDKA Myth (Again)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[July 2020] Upcoming is the 100th Anniversary of broadcasting – or the 104th – or the 111th – or … well, it depends upon whom you ask or what history book you read. KDKA is inevitably discussed, but were they really the first? As Donna Halper points out, getting to the truth of is getting [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Who’s on First?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[May 2012] Words do matter. Trying to talk about something – and understand it – requires that both parties use words in the same way. Otherwise you might was well just enjoy Abbott and Costello. This past fall marked the 90th anniversary of the beginning of broadcasting. Or does it? Whenever broadcasters get together to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[[April 2024] Long a significant force in the Twin Cities market, WCCO, Minneapolis, has also been a pioneer station in many respects, consistently focused on its listeners. Some would call this WCCO’s Centenary Year. But as alumnus Mark Durenberger shows in his linear style of historical narrative, complete with printed news, oral and written history, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WCCO Part 3: WLAG Becomes WCCO</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; [May 2024] WCCO is a true pioneer station. Its roots go all the way back to 1922, the year that saw the number of radio stations “explode” to meet the interest. WCCO alumnus Mark Durenberger shows how the race to save WLAG’s license led to WCCO, now in it 102nd year, as a trusted [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Radio History by the Bay</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; [May 2024] This month marks the 92nd anniversary of the first intentional AM directional antenna in the US. About 20 years ago, Ron Rackley “found” the site and tried to get permission for an historical marker to be placed there. We met him at the Clearwater, FL site to discuss how radio transmission techniques [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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