PHOTOS 1922-1929
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(1) March 15, 1922 temporary authorization for WSB to air weather reports and news and entertainment.
(2) Walter Iler, director, and Walter Tyson, federally licensed operator.
3) The Gordon Hight home; his 100-watt transmitter was used by WSB to transmit the first commercial radio broadcast in Georgia on March 15, 1922.
(4) Early WSB Equipment.
(1) Walter Tison operates the equipment for opera start Alma Gluck as her husband, famed musician, Ephraim Zimbalist listens.
(2) Henry Ford (seated) asked to see WSB during an Atlanta visit in 1922. (3) Unknown. (4) WSB 500 watt transmitter now in the Smithsonian.
(5) March 29, 1925 Atlanta Journal front page story about WSB's move to The Biltmore Hotel
(1) Radio news article September, 1926. (2) The Peachtree Mandoliers. (3) The 7 Aces.
(4) New WSB tower built in 1929; power was increase to 5,000 watts.
Credits: Pictures courtesy of Georgia State University's Pullen Library, and the book "Welcome South Brother".
(1 & 5) WSB tower atop the Atlanta Journal Building (2) Atlanta Journal article before WSB went on the air
(3) Western Electric schematics for WSB (4) The motor generator for the WSB transmitter
(1) Walter Tison, WSB chief operator (2) One of the WSB music studios (3) WSB Director, Lambdin Kay
(4) WSB music studio with original chimes on piano
( 5) WSB staff picture:
Bottom row, left to right: Walter Tison, Bonnie Barnhardt, staff artist and associate director, Lambdin Kay, director-announcer
Top row, left to right: C.F. Daugherty, associated operator, Ernest Rogers, Journal reporter, poet, song writer and songster, and Jim Cobble, third operator.
(1) WSB DX report map (2) The Biltmore Hotel and news WSB studio and tower (3) Artist, painting WSB coverage map
Photos from the McDougald Collection-Grady School of Journalism- The University of Georgia
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