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jxt299 asked in Local BusinessesUnited StatesNew York City · 8 years ago

What was the first radio station in New York City?

The first one to go on the air in NYC, what was it?

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  • ?
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    8 years ago
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    Opera broadcast on January 13, 1910

    Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_public_radio...
  • postal p
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    8 years ago

    2XG: Launched by Lee De Forest in the Highbridge section of New York City, that station began daily broadcasts in 1916.[23] Like most experimental radio stations, however, it had to go off the air when the U.S. entered World War I in 1917, and did not return to the air.

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