Word: fm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radio station WHRB-FM will move to a new frequency and boost its total wattage by 80 per cent, president Loren L. Wyss '58 announced yesterday. WHRB has filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission to approve the changeover...
...twanging cowboy laments that flooded the air waves of the region, and for this, many farmers came from miles around to shake Max's hand. Says he: "A lot of them told me they had never heard music like this before." The combination of Max and FM proved so fertile that now, two years after the Rothmans began flooding the basin with Beethoven, Schoenberg, Saint-Saëns and other good music. FCC is letting him branch out with an AM radio station as well. And this week the station's 36 stockholders-mostly old friends-will meet...
...collection of LP records, is now a stockholder. Rothman traded radio time for food and furniture, and Sima, an amateur artist, illustrated the monthly programs. In return for job printing, the Alamogordo newspaper got free newscasts. To pay for delivery of a fifth child, Max installed FM equipment in the obstetrician's house, acquiring another listener in the bargain. After seven months he quit his job at the missiles development center to spend his time signing up new customers and "keeping people aware...
...last week some 10,000 FM fans were well aware of the Rothmans, and joining them were many of the estimated 70,000 AM set owners scattered across the basin to El Paso. Looking forward at last to some generously profitable years, Max was grateful to his FM followers. "Now everybody seems proud of the station," said he. "Possessive even...
...first time since the advent of TV, restrained programing of the type exploited by Max Rothman is on the upswing all over the U.S. Thanks in large part to the nation's hi-fi hysteria, the air waves now support 537 FM stations (against 521 TV stations) for the estimated 13 million sets in use. In the past two months FCC has made 22 grants for new FM stations, and 47 more are under construction. Several, like WFLN in Philadelphia, WEAW in Evanston, Ill., have expanded to AM to make their outlets better-paying propositions. Biggest single FM boom...