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Kansas city jazz radio stations11/4/2023 ![]() “Every qualified man I train puts in actual hours at my 1000 Watt Commercial Radio Station! When you have completed my training course, you are a tested radio and television expert – ready to step into the BIG PAY class! You have had actual experience behind you in genuine radio broadcasting work which gives you preference in any radio job. THANKS!”Īn ad in the March, 1935 Popular Mechanics touted the school: Complete details regarding our technical training will be sent on request. “Equipment is operated entirely by student-engineers enrolled in the training division of FIRST NATIONAL TELEVISION, INC., who also own and operate Television Station W9XAL in synchronization with voice channel W9XBY. ![]() Studios are located on the 29th floor of the Power & Light Building-transmitter near 86th & Wornall Road. The equipment used is NEW RCA-Victor 1-D, 1000 watt ‘high fidelity’ transmitter and using new RCA-Victor amplifiers and velocity microphones. W9XBY is one of the 4 new ‘high-fidelity’ stations in the U.S., and is operated in the interest of higher quality radio transmission. “This is to thank you for your report on the reception of W9XBY on 12-8-34 at 3:35 AM-EST. However, online it’s easy to find W9XBY broadcast verification cards with earlier dates, like this one: The station reportedly went on the air on December 31, 1934. W9XBY was owned by First National Television (FNT), which also ran classes for aspiring engineers. These stations could be heard on the popular all-wave receivers of the day, as well as many older sets whose tuning overshot the 1500 kc end point of the AM dial….” The stations were W1XBS, Warterbury, Connecticut and W9XBY, Kansas City, Missouri, both on 1530 kc, and W2XR, Long Island City, New York and W6XAI, Bakersfield, California, both on 1550. These were 1 stations and enjoyed bandwidths of 20 kc rather than the standard 10 kc. One was the establishment of several ‘high-fidelity’ AM experimental broadcast stations on channels just above 1500 kc, the high edge of the standard broadcast band. “There were two aspects to high-fidelity experimentation. The Early Shortwave Stations: A Broadcasting History Through 1945 explains: W9XBY was one of four experimental high-fidelity stations approved by the Federal Radio Commission in December, 1933. From here, Count Basie and His Barons of Rhythm were broadcast live from the Reno Club six nights a week, and Kansas City jazz was discovered. Here is where the tower for radio station W9XBY stood. In 1935, this was the outskirts of Kansas City. ![]() Today, houses line both sides of the street along Wornall between 85th and 86th Streets, and a church.
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