{"id":50179,"date":"2021-09-09T17:17:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T21:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=50179"},"modified":"2021-09-09T17:17:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T21:17:57","slug":"1951-us-army-film-independent-radio-station-wmca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/1951-us-army-film-independent-radio-station-wmca\/","title":{"rendered":"1951 US Army Film: Independent Radio Station WMCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/General-Electric-Vintage-Radio-Dial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29590\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/General-Electric-Vintage-Radio-Dial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/General-Electric-Vintage-Radio-Dial.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/General-Electric-Vintage-Radio-Dial-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/General-Electric-Vintage-Radio-Dial-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/General-Electric-Vintage-Radio-Dial-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/General-Electric-Vintage-Radio-Dial-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Kris Partridge, who shares the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>I belong to a FaceBook group \u201cThe Broadcasting Club\u201d and [recently] there was posted a link to a YouTube video of a 70 year old 1951 US Army film called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZN_J_bwrg4k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Independent Radio Station WMCA<\/a>\u201d. It\u2019s worth a view to show what the thinking was 70 years ago:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZN_J_bwrg4k?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>From <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZN_J_bwrg4k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>In 1951 the US Army made this film showing how an independent radio station operates. There was certainly a cold war propaganda motive for the US Army to produce this film, but today, when independent stations are a rarity, this film gives a detailed view of how a large market, independent radio station, WMCA New York, went about producing its programming and paying the bills in post war America.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">If you enjoyed this video, consider becoming a member of the Antique Wireless Association at: <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqblVfdndFb2Rpelhka0FwTHNxN2hLM2VZQzZkZ3xBQ3Jtc0tuOUFsZjlEcGFaZ25iLXY1UTJCUGduaE05MGtTeVFUcjdRZVNpb19hNGU5OXhuNFRTbExqb1Z5Z0MxRmluZG16dHBJNkZzTjl2Z2F2LWRzbjU1ckVEVE13dk5FTjNjM2NqT0ZKcWpRZ0JqYmtZdDh3QQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fantiquewireless.org%2Fhomepage%2Fmembership%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/antiquewireless.org\/homepage\/&#8230;<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"><em>Subscribe to the Antique Wireless Museum channel and you&#8217;ll receive news of our latest video uploads<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much for sharing this, Kris!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Kris Partridge, who shares the following: I belong to a FaceBook group \u201cThe Broadcasting Club\u201d and [recently] there was posted a link to a YouTube video of a 70 year old 1951 US Army film called \u201cThe Independent Radio Station WMCA\u201d. It\u2019s worth a view to show what the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,288,43],"tags":[5584,4091,9436],"class_list":["post-50179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-kris-partridge","tag-radio-history","tag-wmca"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-d3l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33287,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/guest-post-the-days-of-am-pop-music-in-new-york-city\/","url_meta":{"origin":50179,"position":0},"title":"Guest Post: The Days of AM Pop Music in New York City","author":"Thomas","date":"July 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Patrick, who shares the following guest post: Dear Thomas, Thank you for all good articles on the SWLing Post. 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Hams back then\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ham Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ham Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/ham-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/RSGB-Field-Day-1947-1024x731.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/RSGB-Field-Day-1947-1024x731.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/RSGB-Field-Day-1947-1024x731.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":33127,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/us-army-training-film-circuit-testing-and-signal-generators-1951\/","url_meta":{"origin":50179,"position":3},"title":"US Army Training Film: Circuit Testing and Signal Generators (1951)","author":"Thomas","date":"July 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Jarno de Haan, who shares this\u00a0US Army Training Film about circuit testing via\u00a0YouTube.\u00a0If you own vintage radio gear, you should check this out: https:\/\/youtu.be\/bHtsSqRg7SU Click here to view on YouTube.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ham Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ham Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/ham-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Signal-Generator.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Signal-Generator.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Signal-Generator.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":51835,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/bbc-ws-documentary-world-wide-waves-22-the-sounds-of-community-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":50179,"position":4},"title":"BBC World Service Documentary: &#8220;World Wide Waves &#8217;22: The sounds of community radio&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"February 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Kris Partridge, who shares the following: Just heard a trail for this BBC World Service Radio programme to be broadcast at 12h00 UTC this coming Saturday, 12 February 2022. 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