Monday, September 21, 2015
ASSOCIATED PRESS ARTICLE
I was interviewed by Emery Dalesio from the Associated Press about the VOA Greenville, NC station. Here is a link to the article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/19/rural-nc-tract-is-last-shortwave-site-for-us-broad/
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
SOCIETY OF BROADCAST ENGINEERS AT THE MUSEUM
Members of the Society of Broadcast Engineers Chapter 33 visited the VOA Museum to hear a presentation on the history of Radio Station WLW in Cincinnati presented by Jay Adrick. WLW, the Cincinnati radio station built by Powel Crosley Jr., pioneered many "firsts" in the broadcast industry during its long history since 1922. It was the first station with 5,000 Watts of power and the only commercial radio station ever licensed for 500,000 Watts of power. The Society of Broadcast Engineers Chapter 33 is an organization of radio and television engineers from the Cincinnati and Dayton area. Jay is a recent retiree of Harris Broadcast and our expert in local radio history.
Monday, September 7, 2015
PETITION FOR A WILLIS CONOVER POSTAGE STAMP REACHES 8000 SIGNATURES
Willis
Conover was one of the most-listened-to voices heard on the Voice of
America from 1955 to 1996. His program “Music USA” introduced
the world to jazz music, a uniquely American type of music. Jazz
music was banned in countries behind the iron curtain. The only way
for hundreds of millions of listeners to hear jazz was by listening
to the Voice of America.
On the radio, Conover used “Special English”, a slower paced speech
that uses only the 1,500 words found in the Special English
Dictionary distributed worldwide by the VOA. Many people around the
world learned to understand and speak English as a result of
listening to Music USA.
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| Willis Conover (1920-1996) |
Conover
was recognized in
the halls of Congress on more than one occasion, with two news
articles read into the Congressional Record in July of 1985, H. Res
189 of the 103rd Congress (June 14, 1993, passed), and most recently,
H Res. 324 of the 111th Congress (April 2, 2009, introduced), which
proposed designating April 25, 2009, as “Willis Conover Day.” He
was featured in a Wall
Street Journal
article by Doug Ramsey in July.
A
petition to honor Willis Conover with a postage stamp for his 100th
birthday in
2020
has reached 8,000 signatures.
Visit
the museum to view our two large pictures of Willis Conover and read
the
Wall Street Journal
ariticle.
Additional,
interesting links:
http://www.npr.org/2015/07/25/426029637/willis-conover-the-voice-of-jazz-behind-the-iron-curtain
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