Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia (LW4DAF), who shares the following article:
Historic radio station in West Chester remembers final broadcast anniversary (Fox 19)
“Everything got shut off. This place had never been shut off in 50 years.”
WEST CHESTER, Ohio (WXIX) – The Bethany Relay Station at the Voice of America Park is remembering the day its mission of transmitting broadcasts ended.
The historic station was built in West Chester by radio pioneer and Cincinnati native Powel Crosley Jr.
The station and its shortwave broadcasts served as countermeasures to propaganda spreading across Europe during World War II, allowing people from all over the world to receive crucial information about wartime happenings.
On Nov. 14, 1994, the mission of transmitting broadcasts worldwide from the Bethany Relay Station came to an end. […]
Interesting report, thanks.
I still get annoyed when I hear the Yankee Doodle interval signal, though! I wish they had kept Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean!