http://b985.fm Central Maine's Country Thu, 23 May 2013 09:41:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://b985.fm/february-8-1922-the-first-radio-installed-in-the-white-house/ http://b985.fm/february-8-1922-the-first-radio-installed-in-the-white-house/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:44:48 +0000 Randy McCoy http://b985.fm/?p=57686 It’s a big day in White House history today, February 8, 1922, the day a radio was installed in the Presidential Mansion. President Warren Harding was in office at the time and he wanted the radio. In 1922, radio was the hottest new technology much like the internet is today. In the 1920's radio broadcasts where everything and anything they could get to fill air time. A lot of local radio stations had amateur talent perform while some of the larger stations broadcast news casts, weather reports, popular and classical music, a sort of a free for all radio industry.

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