Todd Storz: Radio for a New Era
Todd Storz, owner of Omaha’s KOWH, saw music as opportunity. He showed the world how to harness music and make it profitable in a world more interested in visual ...
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Throwback Thursday Photo, KOIL Foley Artist
Crash! Boom! Bang! Today’s Throwback Thursday photograph features a foley artist at work creating sound effects at the Omaha radio station KOIL on August 24, 1937. ...
KGCH Wayne Hospital Radio
Dr. A. S. Lutgen, a Wayne local, established the town's first hospital in the early 1900's. During the radio rave of the 1920's, he bought a ship "radio telephone" with ...
Senator Joseph McCarthy attacks President Truman on Omaha radio, 1951
By David L. Bristow, Editor
“You are not fooling anyone by screaming that McCarthy is lying,” said Sen. Joseph McCarthy into a KFAB microphone ...
The Era of Radio Begins, 1922
“In future ages historians will scan the record to determine when radio transmission became general and popular and will fix the date not far from 1922."
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Nebraska’s first radio station?
After years of experimental broadcasting, Nebraska’s first commercial radio stations went on the air in 1922. Who was the first?
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First radio broadcast of a Husker football game, Nov. 5, 1921
Long before Lyell Bremser first shouted “Man, woman, and child, did that put ’em in the aisles!,” Pittsburgh radio station KDKA made Husker history on November 5, 1921, ...
Highlights from Digital Curation
The Digital Curation department has been working hard in 2023 to make several new manuscript and photograph collections available online. Below are a few highlights from ...
Norfolk’s WJAG and the Roots of Political Talk Radio
Does political talk radio go too far? And does a station have a responsibility to present opposing points of view? In 1946, Norfolk, Neb., radio station WJAG had its ...
Husker football allowed only one radio broadcast per season in the 1930s
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Why did the University of Nebraska broadcast only one Cornhusker football game a year? It was about money.
In September ...
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