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• Radio

  … by 1945. During this period, commercial radio was expanding rapidly across America. … 1950s as the dominant household medium, radio survived through change. Before television, … chores, or doing school homework. Radio also continued to specialize, offering …

• Religious Broadcasting

  … they developed, the mass media of radio and television provided communication for religious … in the 21st century, many religious radio stations have transitioned to talk or … to 2019, Huntington’s most famous radio and television preacher was Pastor Darrell …

• Sagebrush Roundup

  The _Sagebrush Roundup_ was radio station "WMMN’s":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1327 response to the growing popularity of live-audience country music jamborees in the pre-World War II years. Modeled after the WWVA’s "_Wheeling …

• The Bailes Brothers

  … became increasingly inspired by the music they heard on "radio":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1958 and in church. … . After playing for several years on various West Virginia radio stations, they moved to WSM Nashville and the _Opry_ in …

• Hawkshaw Hawkins

  … he traded five trapped rabbits for his first guitar. He obtained his early entertainment experience with traveling shows and on radio at "WSAZ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1357 Huntington and "WCHS":http://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• Beckley

  … , the Veteran’s Administration Regional Medical Center, and the Jackie Withrow Hospital (formerly Pinecrest State Hospital). Beckley has three radio stations, a public television station, and a daily newspaper, the "_Register-Herald_":http://www. …

• Bluefield

  … wvencyclopedia.org/articles/564 into a powerful media empire, and his "WHIS":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1233 radio, which began broadcasting in 1929, was an important leader in the early history of country music. "Bluefield State …

• Bluefield Daily Telegraph

  … . Shott’s sons, Hugh I. Shott Jr. and James H. Shott, worked in the family business. In 1929, they helped launch radio station "WHIS":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1233-AM, with the call letters taken from their father’s initials. In …

• Harry Brawley

  … School, pioneering the use of "radio":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles … Virginia educational television and later public radio, which are now "West … that became the Educational Television and Radio Amendments of 1969. This legislation …

• Cabell County

  … and sells stained glass throughout the world. In 1923, the Huntington area became the site of West Virginia’s first commercial radio station still broadcasting today (WRVC, formerly "WSAZ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1357, which began …

• WAJR

  … . In 1985, WAJR launched the Metronews Radio Network, which now provides daily news, … than 60 affiliates statewide. The West Virginia Radio Corporation has owned WAJR since it … Jane Reeves Greer. In 1968, both radio and newspaper facilities moved into the …

• Cap, Andy, and Flip

  The country music trio of Cap, Andy, and Flip delighted Mountain State radio audiences during the 1930s. Composed of West Virginian Warren Caplinger (1889–1957), Tennessean Andrew Patterson (1893–1950), and Alabaman William ‘‘Flip’’ Strickland (1908–88), …

• It’s Wheeling Steel

  A half-hour musical variety radio program, _It’s Wheeling Steel_ debuted over "WWVA":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1377 in Wheeling on November 8, 1936. Conceived and produced by the Wheeling Steel Corporation’s advertising director, …

• WCHS

  … in Huntington. Walter Fredericks, owner of Charleston Radio Supply Company, started WCHS, reportedly to … and is now independent of the radio station, with separate owners. WCHS-FM … the air in 1969. West Virginia Radio Corporation acquired the station in …

• Ted Cassidy

  … ;:http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1135, then left West Virginia for a career in radio. Working as a staff announcer for WFAA radio in Dallas, he was part of the station’s coverage of John F. Kennedy’s …

• Wheeling

  … Symphony":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1230, "WWVA Radio":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1377, and … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1215 on Wheeling Island, and radio station WWVA’s _Jamboree USA_ draw a large tourist …

• Clark Kessinger

  … Straw’’ also sold well. The Kessinger Brothers started performing on radio station WOBU (later "WCHS":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … , he was a guest artist on the _Grand Ole Opry_ radio program, on NBC-TV’s _Today Show_, and at the …

• Wheeling Jamboree

  … The first _Jamboree_ broadcast originated from the radio station WWVA on January 7, 1933. … station in October 1942, the _Jamboree’s_ radio audience became much larger. George Smith … , the _Jamboree_ launched its own community radio station, WWOV at 101.1 FM. …

• Wheeling Steel

  … Market.’’ The influence of Wheeling Steel extended beyond its various manufactured products. For eight years (1936–44), a radio program, ‘‘It’s Wheeling Steel,’’ broadcast musical entertainment to a national audience from Wheeling station "WWVA" …

• WHIS

  One of West Virginia’s pioneer radio stations, WHIS had its origins in the ambitions … a congressman. The brothers made initial efforts at radio as early as 1922 and in the … it as few of their listeners had FM radios. In 1963, they revived the station, which …

• WJLS

  Radio in Beckley began when Joe L. Smith Jr., son of Congressman Joe L. … , later governor of West Virginia, then took the radio position until he, too, went to the service. … country. Since 2013, WJLS has been owned by the West Virginia Radio Corporation.

• WMMN

  Radio station WMMN of "Fairmont":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2231 … 1938. It was a long-time CBS Radio Network affiliate. For nearly two decades … As both national network and live local radio programming declined in the 1950s, WMMN …

• WSAZ

  … West Virginia’s oldest continuously licensed AM radio station. It began broadcasting on October … the Blue Network (later the ABC Radio Network) in 1943, and switched to … /articles/323. Gene Kelly, later the radio broadcaster for the Philadelphia Phillies, …

• WVMR

  … call letters stand for West Virginia Mountain Radio. Broadcasting on 1370 AM since 1981, … than FM broadcasts to interfere with radio telescope reception of very high frequency … in Virginia to start their own community radio stations; neither county had had a …

• WWVA

  Wheeling radio station WWVA-AM began broadcasting December 13, 1926. The 50-watt station operated from the basement of … an AM station from the beginning. Now that stereo has boosted FM radio into the lead for music broadcasting, WWVA has moved into the AM …