Today we're reading a reprint from the November and December, 1944, issues of Communications magazine. It reveals that the Voice of America transmitters in Ohio were "officially dedicated" on September 23, 1944. The piece was written by R.J. Rockwell, former Director of Broadcast Engineering at The Crosley Corporation, which designed and operated the site.
The copy was sent over by a fellow enthusiast that we happened to bump into at VOA.
At the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, according to Communications, America trailed the Germans in its ability to broadcast overseas:
"Six international licensees were operating only 13 short-wave station, several of which were incapable even of 50-kw output. In contrast to this, Germany had at least 68 short-wave transmitters under her control, and it was reported that from 12 to 20 additional units of 200-kw output might be in operation by December, 1942."
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