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Bertha
Porter |
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Big
D Big Shows |
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Charlie
Parker |
Charlie's
profile | CBA Hall of Fame nomination
| Growing Up Parker - Pt. 1 | Pt.
2 | Pt. 3 |
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Franklin
M. Doolittle |
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1 (1905-1924)
page
2 (1925-1940)
page 3 (1941-1979)
N.Y. Herald
article - October 21, 1906
Marconi shipboard operator | Service
record
1915 Yale
yearbook legend
Amplifone
1922 tuner
1923 Krakauer Piano endorsement
Audimax
Decremeter
Duplex Gap
1921 Patent
Yale/Princeton announcement | Fan
mail
1923 Studio
Beacon Hill transmitter building
WPAJ Store - 1923 | WDRC
Store - 1925
1924 Patent
1927 Patent
1931 Patent
Western Electric 630-A microphone
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22, 2002 | Feb. 20, 2000-Aug. 23, 2001
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Formats |
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History |
1920s|1930s|1940s|1950s|1960s|1970s|1980s|1990s|2000+ |
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1922
- First commercial license application |
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1923
- New Haven studio | 1929 - First
National Rate Card |
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September,
1923 - WPAJ equipment |
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Yankee
Network Poster |
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1934
Calendar: March | July
| October |
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October
7, 1934 - Will Rogers |
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1936
- 750 Main Street | Blue Hills Avenue transmitter
building |
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1936
- flood coverage |
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Meriden
Mountain APEX and FM transmitter site | Meriden
Mountain 2006 |
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1936
- 750 Main Street studio photos:
Studio A | Control
Room | Lobby | Transmitter
| Colin Driggs | Grace
Legg | Music Library | Rate
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1936
- Big Bands ad |QSL cards | Daniel
E. Noble, Jr. | A.C. Gilbert story
| Jimmie Allen
1936 - Professor Norman I. Adams, Jr.
1937 - Truscon Antenna
1939 - entrance to WDRC's 750 Main Street studios
1940s - W65H management staff
1941 - W65H billboard | other
billboards
1941 - WDRC At War
1942 - Escape Programs Bring Relief From War
1942 - American FM Network
1945 - Program Information advertisement
June 7, 1945 - WDRC engineers advertisement
1945 - George B. Armstead, WDRC's
News Interpreter
1947 - Continental Network map
1947 - Parade of Youth
1947 - Bubbles in Pope Park
1952 - article by Franklin
M. Doolittle on origins of binaural
broadcasting
1954 - 869 Blue Hills Avenue
1950s - mystery photo (Who Are These
People?)
1959 - New FM Station To Be
Dedicated
1960 - Funday! | Funday
Pt. 2
1961 - Funday+1
1962 - Joel Cash-Ew Nut Club
June 9, 1963 - Mail Call
Nov. 25, 1963 - Charlie Parker's
Open Letter to JFK
1963-1966 - Danny Thomas Teenage March
1967 - Out-in: The Concert That Never Happened
1967 - Big D Studios | Architect's
floorplan | Engineers | Paul
Repp
1968 - Martin Luther King jr. open letter
1969 - Little Dee the Dune Buggy
1970 - Stafford Speedway Grudge Race
1970 - Bob Molloy's studio shots
1971 - Rate Card
1973 - Motorpool
1976 - WDRC celebrates the Bicentennial
1996 - Brad Davis web page | Jerry
Kristafer web page
2005 - HD Radio
2011 - death of Buckley Broadcasting President
Richard D. Buckley, Jr.
2014 - Buckley Broadcasting to sell WDRC
2016 - Keith Dakin named
one
of the Top 50 Best Program Directors in America
January 15, 2018 - Red Wolf Broadcasting buys
WDRC from Connoisseur Media
October 11, 2018 - Charlie Parker inducted
into CBA's Hall of Fame |
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Jingles |
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3 (1973-2012) |
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Logos |
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Music
Surveys |
May
23, 1960 (front)
(back)
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24, 1961 (front)
(inside)
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March
3, 1962 | January
15, 1963 | September
14, 1964 |
April
26, 1965 | August
29, 1966 | May
22, 1967 | September
2, 1968
January
4, 1969 | March
13, 1970 | May
14, 1971 |
December
22, 1972 | September
28, 1973
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October
24, 1975 |
September 24, 1976 | August
26, 1977 |
October
20, 1978 | February
2, 1979 | February
9, 1982 |
Solid
Gold Hit Parade-December, 1986 Pt.
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Solid
Gold 300 of 1992 #1-150
#151-300 |
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Shirley Klein Art |
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Gene
Pitney
Elvis Presley |
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Personalities
Index |
A
B C
D E
F G
H I
J K
L M
N O
P Q R
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U V W
X Y Z
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Pants
Long John Wade interview | Ken
Griffin interview | Ken Griffin scrapbook
| Ron Landry article |
Jerry Bishop article | Reeth
& King profile | Brad Davis profile
| Ray Barrett |
Italo A. Martino | Walter B. Haase |
Bob DeCarlo | Tom
Kelly | Art Johnson article | more
on Art Johnson | Aaron Shepard | Dick
McDonough | Stephen Kane | Dick
Robinson | Jim Harrington | Jim
Nettleton | Beth Bradley update | Jim
Jeffrey | Jane Redding | Lani
Jurev | Russ Naughton mending kit
| Peggy Reichel | Len
Thomas | Joey Reynolds surgery
| WDRC Mailcall | Joe
Barbarette | Victor E. Forker | Jack
Smith | Sandy Beach | |
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In
Memoriam |
Ron Landry | Bradley
Field | Ken Reeth | Stephen
Capen | Long John Wade | Paul
Repp | Don Wade |
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Programming |
Contests
| 40 Years | 50 Years
| 100 years | 100th
Virtual Guestbook | News | Harvey
Olson article |
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Contests
(Click here to
play the Big D Name Game!)
Funday ad | 1971 Birds
promotion |
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Deejays
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3 | page 4 | page
5 | page 6
Color Me OBG lp cover
Joe Hager in Little D
Scotty Morgan's photo
page/January, 1970
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John
Diskes photo page (1967) |
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Vic
Vincze's photo page (1977) |
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50th
Station Anniversary (1972)
40th Anniversary of rock music (August, 2000) |
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Schedules
Index | December 1928 | 1935-38
|1939-42 | 1951-54
| 1956-57 | 1958-61
| 1962-66 |
1967-70 | 1970-74 | 1996-2000 |
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Christmas |
1941
cover, inside, rear
| 1946-7 | 1963
|1964 | 1965 |
1966 | 1973 |
1980 | New Year's Eve |
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WDRC
in the News |
June 16, 1927 | February
1928 | June 11, 1933 | April
15, 1939 | December 4, 1939 | April
27, 1947 | October 29, 1952 | March
24, 1960 | November 18, 1968 | October
4, 1981 | July 12, 1985 |
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WDRC
Television |
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What's
Doing 'Round
Connecticut columns |
July
28, 1963 | November
17, 1963 | December 1, 1963 | December
15, 1963 | December
29, 1963 | March
22, 1964 | April 19, 1964 | April
26, 1964 | December 13, 1964 | November
14, 1965 | December 20, 1965 | September
4, 1966 | December 11, 1966 | March
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