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Audience Estimates in the Birmingham ARB Radio Market, American Research Bureau
Box 6 Folder 18: "Ok, this is folder 18, and what it is is rating sheets, one for May of 1972. Well, they’re both for May of 1972. One for Monday through Sunday and one for Saturday, for 3 to 7 on Saturday. Saturday and Sunday. One’s weekends and…
Ratings, 1969
Box 5 Folder 38: "This is folder 38. These are ratings from 1969. Ok, one of them is from April and May of 1969 and one of them is from October/November of 1969. These are the result of diaries mailed to possible listeners. There are 1,228 diaries.…
Carl Daniels
Box 5 Folder 25: "Folder 25 is a color picture of Carl Daniels. In December, 2012, I spoke with him and he relayed his history as follows: He worked at WJLD in 1965 while in high school. (Could have been a WJLD Newshawk); He left in 1967 for WENN;…
Broadcast Map, WSGN
Box 4 Folder 25: "Folder 25 from 1964 is a broadcast map showing the relative reaches of WSGN, WBRC, and WAPI with, when you flip it over, obviously promoting WSGN as having the broadest listenership. It’s a promo piece for WSGN and it’s just a nice…
Clipping, Birmingham News Radio Log
Box 3 Folder 39: "This is a Birmingham News radio log from April 11, 1957. It lists 11 radio stations and 2 television stations. 6 and 13 were the TV stations. JLD had McKinstry. This is back in ‘57. Their radio logs had the previous evening's…
Duke Rumore, WJLD
Box 3 Folder 9: "Moving along to folder 9. These are 3 pictures, an original, a copy of an original, and a copy of a copy, of Duke Rumore at a WJLD mic in 1954 when he was one of the top jocks in the city. He left for WSGN and pretty famous there. …
Measured Horizontal Radiation Pattern, WSGN
Box 3 Folder 5: "Here we have folder 5, which is a measured horizontal radiation pattern of WSGN from February of 1954. This is for WSGN 610 kilocycles, a technical piece."
Reflections on Bob Umbach from Tommy Cox
Tommy Cox, a WJLD listener interviewed about Bob Umbach, WJLD Radio Announcer and originator of the Atomic Boogie Hour in 1946. Tommy began listening to Bob Umbach in 1949. Tommy called Bob Friedman in 2005 letting him know he had a Rhythm and Blues…
Clipping, Radio Logs
Box 1 Folder 49: "This is box number 1, folder 49, which is various radio logs from 1949, which now include WVOK, WKAX, and WEDR. It may be the first time that WEDR gets notated in the radio logs. This from September 19, 1949 with WEDR going on the…
Clippings, Radio Logs
Box 1 Folder 43: "Box 1 number 43 is a radio log from 1948, which shows 5 radio stations, the new addition being WTNB 1490 which was short-lived. There is nothing at that frequency in the city at this point. But as far as black programming is…