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Title: New KMBC Station Links Radio and Pioneer Era
Description: Description of the new KMBC radio station and tower being constructed at 50th and Belinder. Includes a drawing and details and specifics of the building and part of the "vertical radiator," or tower. Arthur B. Church, vice-president and general manager of KMBC commented, "As a key station of the Columbia Broadcasting System, we create many chain programs daily in KMBC's studios in the Pickwick Hotel. These are broadcast by KMBC through a large group of Columbia chain stations, located northwest, west and southwest of Kansas City."
Date: 1933-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Dick Smith
Description: Photograph of Dick Smith speaking at the March 22, 1955, meeting of the Radio and Television Council of Greater Kansas City held at the Pickwick Hotel. The program for the event was called "Kansas City Athletics." Dick Smith is listed as Director of Radio, KMBC and as moderator for the event.
Date: 1955-02-22
Object Type: Photograph

Title: WDAF Station Building
Description: Exterior, partial view of the WDAF broadcasting building entrance, located on Signal Hill, at the northwest corner of 31st Street and Southwest Trafficway. Also has the owner's name, The Kansas City Star, on the front. Processing date on photograph: May, 1955.
Date: 1955-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: WDAF Kansas City Radio Station
Description: Employees of the radio station including Harry Darby (4th from the right) and Bill Leeds (right).
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: This Family Celebrates 60 Years of Radio
Description: Article profiles KPRS-FM, the oldest African American continually owned radio station in the United States. It was founded in 1950 by Andrew Skip Carter after he acquired a a radio transmitter from former Kansas Governor Alf Landon. The station currently operates as Hot 103 Jamz.
Date: 2010-08-31
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Cruiser 980, Over and Out
Description: KMBZ Radio reporter Dan Verbeck retires after 34 years on the air, 23 years with KMBZ. He recalls some of his favorite stories in this article. He was always known for his sign off, "Cruiser 980, clear." Article includes his picture.
Date: 2008-02-07
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: 'The Most Trusted Man in America' Dies
Description: In-depth obituary article about Walter Cronkite who died July 17, 2009, at the age of 92. Cronkite, an anchor of the "CBS Evening News" from 1962 to 1891, was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, spent his first 10 years in Kansas City before moving to Texas. He returned to Kansas City in 1936 to work with KCMO radio "as the station's entire news and sports department." He and his wife, Betsy Maxwell, were married in 1940 at Kansas City's Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral. Former mayor Kay Barnes and Cronkite were first cousins. Their fathers were brothers.
Date: 2009-07-18
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: WRW, The Radio Station of the Kansas City Post
Description: A 25-page typed photocopied paper which gives the history of WRW and the radio connection that the Kansas City Post newspaper maintained.
Date: 2002
Object Type: Manuscript

Title: A Colorful Career Comes To a Close
Description: Prominent Kansas City sports figure Jerry Green died August 15, 2007, at the age of 77. He was "a flamboyant Kansas City businessman who owned banks and radio stations and tried to buy the Kansas City Royals in 1997." His career started by running his father's car dealership, Union Chevrolet. "His mother, Selma Green, later Selma Green Feld, was a well-known philanthropist who endowed the Carolyn Benton Cockefair Chair for Continuing Education at the University of Missouri-Kansas City." Green owned sports talk radio station WHB, auto dealerships Jerry Green Union Chevrolet and Broadway Ford, Indian Springs State Bank, and other banks which eventually became Union Bank, as well as a collection of sports cars. "Green once told a reporter that he was of establishment background but not an establishment person." Includes his picture.
Date: 2007-08-16
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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