- Collection:
- WSB Radio Records Log Books
- Title:
- WSB Radio records, "Official log," 1923 [6 of 6]
- Creator:
- WSB (Radio station: Atlanta, Ga.)
- Publisher:
- WSB Radio Records, 1922-1985, [bulk 1960-1980]
- Date of Original:
- 1923
- Subject:
- Radio and music--Georgia--Atlanta
Weather broadcasting--Georgia--Atlanta
Sports journalism--Georgia--Atlanta
Radio broadcasting--Georgia--Atlanta
Radio journalism--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta journal-constitution
Acoustical engineering--History
Radio--history
Radio advertising--Georgia--Atlanta
Musicians--Georgia
Singers--Georgia
Bands (Music)--Georgia
Amateur radio stations
Presbyterian Church--Georgia--Atlanta
Commodity exchanges
Cotton trade
Grain trade
Corporate sponsorship
Georgia--Politics and government--1865-1950
WSB (Radio station: Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Log book from WSB radio station in Atlanta, Georgia, covering November 1, 1923 through December 31, 1923. The log includes handwritten notes, technical information, Atlanta Journal clippings of program listings, and transcriptions of radio "conversations" between engineers at WSB and ham radio operators. The log for December 25 is blank except for a handwritten note that reads "only day in the year we take off." Harry Dougherty and W.W. Jason[?] sign as the operators on duty. WSB ("Welcome South, Brother") Radio, the first radio station to broadcast in the city of Atlanta, was "born" on March 15, 1922, when it went on the air for the first time at a power of 100 watts. The station was originally owned by The Atlanta Journal and broadcast from a makeshift studio on the fifth floor of The Journal building on Forsyth Street in downtown Atlanta. In 1925 the station moved to more spacious quarters on the top floor of the Biltmore Hotel, where it remained for the next thirty years. Both The Journal and WSB were purchased by Governor James M. Cox of Ohio in 1939; WSB is still a property of Cox Broadcasting Corporation, which was formed when Cox operations reorganized in 1964. Hailed as the "Voice of the South," WSB Radio was an innovative pioneer in radio.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:gsu_wsblog_gsu-m004-m004-18-07
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/gsu/wsblog/do:GSU-M004-M004-18-07
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 122 pages
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
