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WJSV: A Complete Broadcast Day
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WJSV: A Complete Broadcast Day

Broadcast · 1939 · Weekly

CBS / WJSV

CBS / WJSV · 1939–1939

Broadcasts

55

Cadence

Weekly

Rated

PG

Since

1939

The run

Network
CBS / WJSV
Years active
1939–1939
Surviving broadcasts
55
Genre
documentary

September 21, 1939 — one Washington station recorded from sign-on to sign-off. The single best surviving snapshot of what a day of radio actually was. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.

Source collection

Old Time Radio Researchers Group

Rights

Public domain — no renewed US copyright

Cataloguing

Air dates and notes from the Archive item record

Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_WJSV_Complete_Day_Singles

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

0 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

JFMAMJJASOND
1939
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

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