Printing a radio announcer & discussing when we were featured by NPR for National Radio Day (Aug 20)

August 20th is National Radio Day! While we don’t think too much about radio for entertainment or communication these days, radio had its beginnings in Sacramento over 100 years ago.

The radio station KVQ 833 AM aired on February 2, 1922 its first broadcast, making it the first radio station in Sacramento. The radio studio was in the Sacramento Bee’s headquarters on 7th Street between I and J Streets. By the end of the year, KVQ went off the air when other stations with stronger signals were broadcasted.

On September 17, 1922, Sacramento’s longest running radio broadcasting station went on air for the first time. KFBK was broadcast from Kimball-Upson Company building at 607-611 K Street. It was operated jointly by Kimball-Upson and the Sacramento Union newspaper. The McClatchy Company, which owned the Sacramento Bee newspaper, later acquired KFBK in 1925. KFBK is still on the air today.

For today, Jared discussed past interviews we’ve had with NPR and letterpress printed an image from a roughly 90 year old electrotype (copy of a woodcut) of a radio announcer.

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