.................................
To leave Commie, hyper to
http://commie.oy.com/commie_leaving.html
.................................
The story of
"WHER: The First All-Girl Radio Station in The World"
"One Thousand Beautiful Watts"
Low budget. The studios were in a motel.
The sales office was 42 inches wide (1.07 m).
"We got invited to every party in town."
http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/991029.stories.html
They went on-air October 29, 1955, in Memphis, Tennessee.
Legendary record producer Sam Phillips had always wanted a radio
station. When the FCC finally gave him a frequency, 1430 on the AM
dial, Sam came up with a one-of-a-kind idea -- an all girl format
-- women announcers, sales staff, management, record librarians,
copy writers ...
At the time, stations had at most one girl announcer. Each woman
who interviewed for a job at WHER thought she would be that girl.
It wasn't until the day before the station went on the air that
the girls themselves found out the station would be all female.
(A note for non-Murrcans:
Why does "WHER" mean ? Every USA radio station has a "call sign" of
three or four letters. East of the Mississippi River they start with
W, west of it they start with K, and in Canada they start with C.)
