The First Radio Station in Alabama, WSY
Alabama Short Stories
English - May 25, 2021 09:00 - 12 minutes - 8.51 MB - ★★★★ - 27 ratingsHistory Society & Culture alabama history non-fiction tales stories local Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Not only do we get radio from towers located around the state, but we can also now get it from satellites. We can also get a form of radio as podcasts which you download to your phone or electronic device to listen to at your leisure. Some may argue that podcasts are not radio at all, but we can all agree that radio has been around all our lives. In Alabama, it started almost 100 years ago.
There were very few companies in the early 1920s that had any experience with the high-powered electricity it took to build and run a radio station. If it was going to get done, Alabama Power was going to have to do it.
Here the story of how radio came to our state and why it came here, it may surprise you. Find out the story on this episode of the Alabama Short Story podcast.
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Tell a friend about the podcast. Buy some merchandise from the Art Done Wright store at https://www.teepublic.com/user/wright-art Buy Volume 1 of the Book. https://a.co/d/9VhY9cO Buy the newly released Volume 2 of the Book. https://a.co/d/ef1yunC Want to support your local book store? You can do that by purchasing Volume 1 and Volume 2 through Bookshop.org, which gives back to local bookstores.You can listen to the podcast on the website or wherever you prefer to listen and subscribe to podcasts.