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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in unused condition. Book like new. Box has a split. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> It has become habit for me to scan rather than read manuscripts. After five decades in the craft I instinctively judge a work by its heft paragraphing and punctuation. Not so with Welcome South Brother the history of WSB Atlanta. It’s a fascinating account of this pioneer station and its parent company Cox Broadcasting Corporation. WSB became the South’s first radio station in 1922-just two years after KDKA Pittsburgh had been given the first “regular” (as op- posed to experimental) call letters. It was licensed to the distinguished Atlanta Journal which beat its competitor the Constitution to the radio punch. That was in the days when radio receivers called consoles sold for up to $700; when news- papers promoted “kits” to coax readers to make their own cat’s whiskers oatmeal box earphone receivers. Only the carriage trade could afford the Kolsters or the gooseneck-speaker Atwater Kents of that era. I recall that in 1926 when I began writing a syndicated radio column for David Lawrence’s Consolidated Press (my pseudonym was “Robert Mack”) many of the stories were about receiving sets alloca- tions “clear channels” of which WSB became one and what loose operating standards and heterodyning did to “DX-ing” i.e. reception of distant stations. (MP)