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• Lilly Brothers

  … developed a mandolin-guitar harmony duet and worked occasionally on radio at "WCHS":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … presents West Virginia Public Broadcasting on the Lilly Brothers radio debut <center><iframe width="490& …

• Mountain Stage

  … the longest running contemporary music programs on radio, _Mountain Stage_ is a performance program … show reaching a global audience. The radio program’s first national broadcast was … Stage_ was aired on 247 public radio stations and is aired worldwide on …

• National Radio Astronomy Observatory

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1876. Radio astronomy differs from visual astronomy … world’s largest equatorially mounted radio telescope, operates at short wavelengths … Virginia Public Broadcasting on National Radio Astronomy Observatory <center> …

• Molly O’Day and Lynn Davis

  … /articles/2256 and ‘‘Duke’’ played "banjo":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/339. In 1939, when Skeets went to WCHS radio in Charleston, Dixie joined him briefly, then went to WBTH Williamson that fall. In the spring of 1940, they moved to …

• The Old Farm Hour

  … from "WCHS":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/937 radio in Charleston. Shows were held in the WCHS Auditorium, and … . Frank Welling (1898–1957), a musician, homespun philosopher, and radio announcer, played a key part in the program’s success …

• Rex and Eleanor Parker

  … their daughters as the Parker Family, were musical fixtures on radio and television on several stations for more than a half … was confined largely to local churches and a Sunday morning radio program in "Princeton":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Little Jimmy Dickens

  … , performing under the name Jimmy the Kid. He gained early radio experience at "WJLS":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles … /1327 Fairmont. His entertainment career took him to several radio stations until 1949 when he joined the _Grand Ole Opry_ …

• West Virginia Public Broadcasting

  … implemented between West Virginia Public Radio and West Virginia Public Television. … distribution in 1986. Other significant radio programs have included _Inside Appalachia_ … facility in Charleston, and daily radio broadcasts originate there. Charleston and …

• Folk Music

  … /1681 of Tambouritzan music on native instruments. They performed on radio station WWVA and toured the coalfields on a semi- … /articles/1272 became a mainstay of the _Wheeling Jamboree_ weekly radio program on WWVA. Williams, whose roots also were in Eastern …

• Jack Fleming

  … as a broadcaster in pro basketball and football, he anchored sports radio at the state’s flagship university through 1997. From 1960 … of "WAJR":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/882 Radio in Morgantown, and he was sports director of WTAE-TV …

• Reber Telescope

  … Bank is home to the historic Reber Radio Telescope, the first telescope built specifically … the first to establish that radiation at radio wavelengths was reaching the earth from … had built to the "National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank" …

• Nat Reese

  … -name jazz musicians, local Black musicians, and performers on such radio broadcasts as the _Grand Ole Opry_. He learned to play … and blues on Bill Farmer’s Saturday night show on radio station "WHIS":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1233 …

• Davis Grubb

  … City as a page for NBC and to write radio plays, alternating for the next decade between New … commercial writing was the script for a 1939 radio show aired by WBLK-Clarksburg. He also … , in <em>Anthology of 100 Radio Plays</em>, and he received $ …

• Blind Ed Haley

  … had to be heard on a street or courthouse square or other public place where he made his living. He never played on the radio or made any commercial records, but his influence on such musicians as "Clark Kessinger":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Soupy Sales

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1529 (now Marshall University), he started his career as a script writer and disc jockey at WHTN Radio in Huntington. At night, he played club dates in the Tri-State area. In 1950, Sales left Huntington and broke into …

• Alderson Federal Prison Camp

  … and several foreign countries. Over the years, the prison has housed some famous female inmates including singer Billie Holiday, radio propagandists Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose, Charles Manson cult member "Lynette ‘‘Squeaky’’ Fromme":http://www. …

• Alberta Pierson Hannum

  … wvencyclopedia.org/articles/314, was released by RKO General as a motion picture in 1949. _Spin a Silver Dollar_ was released as a radio play in 1946 and published as _The Blue House_ by the U.S. Information Agency in 1970. Hannum was also successful as …

• Sam Shaw

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1353, he served as a decoder in army radio intelligence. His letters home were printed in the _Echo_ and won … town’s first direct-dial telephones and the first two-way radios in police cruisers and taxis. In the 1950s, the city …

• Back-to-the-Land Movement

  … settler wrote of buying 79 acres of Lincoln County land for $2,700. The article was advertised in a series of radio spots, and the rush was on. The movement quickly spread across the state, fueled by nationally distributed Strout Real Estate catalogs …

• Huntington Herald-Dispatch

  … publishers until their deaths. Gideon died in 1950 and Long in 1958 at the age of 95. The publishing company also purchased radio station "WSAZ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1357 during this time and in 1949 started one of the nation’s …

• William Wallace Barron

  … shamed utility companies into dropping rate increases, positioned Green Bank as site of the world’s largest "movable radio telescope":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1583, and started the highly successful West Virginia "Youth Science …

• Hillbilly

  … aboriginal country musicians in the wilds of the Santa Monica Mountains. He dubbed them ‘‘The Beverly Hillbillies,’’ a radio musical group whose name preceded the popular 1960s television-series title. Hillbilly was becoming synonymous with ‘‘authentic’’ …

• Hugh I. Shott

  … News_ (1926–72), Telegraph Commercial Printing Company, and "WHIS":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1233 radio, a pioneer Appalachian station which broadcast his initials as call letters from a penthouse studio atop the West Virginian …

• History of West Virginia

  … the 20th century slipped away, West Virginians could reflect upon the great changes that it had brought. The automobile, radio, motion pictures, television, computers, and other inventions had opened vistas little dreamed of when the century began. It had …

• Ada ‘‘Bricktop’’ Smith

  … married musician Peter Duconge in 1929. She opened a much larger Bricktop’s in 1931, where Porter performed in 1932. She made radio broadcasts in France in 1938–39; then returned to the United States as Nazi Germany began expanding across Europe. Her only …