"David Eduardo" wrotf:

The radio-locator maps are, well, generous.

Generous coverage maps are a hallowed industry tradition.

Recently Larry Woods brought in some copies of Broadcast Digest from the
early '30s. This was a TV Guide sort of publication featuring stories and
program listings for west coast AM stations.

One of the biggest station advertisers was KJBS--then licensed at 100 watts
from that famous transmitter on Pine Street. "Generous" doesn't being to
describe the coverage map in their ads. (Although it's worth pointing out
that the best receivers of that time, connected to external long wire
antennas and confronted with a relatively unpopulated band, ran sensitivity
rings around most modern AM consumer sets.)

Of note is that their morning show was "The Alarm Clock Club"that early. It
was still called that in the '50s when Frank Cope was the popular jock.

Don Sherwood de-throned him.

Norm Howard