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WIAR (defunct)
WIAR was an experimental, short-lived radio station in Paducah, Kentucky, broadcasting on a frequency of 833 kilocycles with 100 watts power, that went on the air eight years before WPAD debuted. It helped establish how radio would work in Paducah and gave the town a taste of what was to come.
==Early Paducah radio==
Paducah entered radio early, and the first station owner was concerned with pure promotion. The Commerce Department issued Kentucky's second radio license to J.A. Rudy & Sons at 115 South Third St. in Paducah "during the week beginning 17 July 1922," less than two years after KDKA in Pittsburgh made its groundbreaking broadcast of the 1920 Presidential election returns. WIAR became a promotional arm of Mr. Rudy's retail establishment. While much of the content of the station's programming during its early days is now a lost memory due to the station's sporadic transmissions, the continuous promo line "It's at Rudy's" established itself well enough in the minds of listeners to outlast the store itself. The station operated for about six months before it was sold to the ''Paducah Evening Sun'', a daily newspaper that was owned by Paducah's Paxton family. "The transmitter room and small studio were located on the second floor of The Sun's plant on South 3rd Street."
WIAR was one of only five stations listed for Kentucky in the 1923 ''Citizens Radio Call Book''.
WIAR enjoyed a brief, but dynamic run through the first half of 1923 under the ''Sun's'' lead. The newspaper cross-promoted the station heavily beginning in early January. The daily rag would run front-page stories ''ad nauseam'', promoting that evenings programming among the hard news. Headlines such as "Concerts Continue to Bring Praises for Sun Station", "Impressive are Music Programs by Sun's Radio", and "Artists Keep Up Splendid Quality of WIAR Concerts" were common front-page fare. The paper, which had only run stories about radio sparingly beforehand, now had features about the station and radio in general several times throughout each day's edition. Many articles were very technical in nature. A series appeared on new radio receiving circuits including detailed instructions on how the reader could build their own set. The series was accompanied with schematics. One article detailed how a Paducah man received a WIAR signal by wrapping a lead pencil in wire, attaching it to a doorknob and a crystal, and then grounding it. The radio station even boasted its ability to beat the weather. A storm hit the city on March 12, and most telegraph lines were down. The paper's two dedicated AP telegraph lines were inoperable. The Sun tried to use WIAR to pick up news messages, but station workers were only able to receive entertainment programs or "vacant" air. A separate article sported the headline "WIAR Laughs at Elements, Music on Time Tonight" in a jab to the telegraph industry. "Wires may come and wires may go," the article stated, "but radio laughs at all the efforts of the elements to stop communication between mortals".
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