Sass Media Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one publication from 1947 "Going Forward With Radio WOC: 25 years of Radio in the Quad Cities". It was compiled and edited by Thomas B. Tull, Editor, National Radio Personalities. Photos of Quad Cities were courtesy of Chambers of Commerce.
Of particular interest may be brief job descriptions, names and images of the employees of WOC as well as programming personalities. Some names include Buryl Lottridge, Barbara Jane Whittlesey, June Daniel, L.O. Fitzgibbons, Paul G. Arvidson, Charles Freburg, Edith Crawford, George O. Sontag, marjorie Meinert, Evelyn Montgomery Smith, Florence Ankerson, Helen West, Robert M. Campbell, Ralph Coats, William Ede, Fred Horton, Rosemary Schlack, Daniel J. Rafferty, Howard R. Holder, Harold R. Heath, Janice Lancaster, Esten Spurrier, Neil C. Conklin, George D. Moisan, August Wendt, William Smith, Robert Hutchison, Wayne O'Neil, Helen O'Connor, Edgar Reed, Thomas Innis, Harold Jones, Paul Tesdell, Carl Day, Lt. Comdr. Tyrrell Krum, Mary Louise Marshall, Everett Mitchell, Charles Freberg, Bob Beyer, Walter Dick, Virginia Hawkins, Howard Holder, Marion W. Lemon, Bob Frank, Bill Roberts, Bob Redeen, Robert McCormick and Harold Heath
Dates
- Creation: 1947
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Materials are available for use in the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center only.
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Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a reproduction. One of these specific conditions is that the reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research.” If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use,” that user may be liable for copyright infringement.
Biographical / Historical
The WOC Broadcasting Center is a historic building located just north of Downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. Robert Karlowa, a music store owner in Rock Island, Illinois, began experimenting with radio transmission in 1907. He had a Morse code broadcasting station before taking up voice broadcasting. His radiophone station was granted call letters 9-BY and in 1922 he was granted the call letters WOC. B.J. Palmer, the president of Palmer School of Chiropractic, bought the station in March of that year and moved Karlowa's equipment to Davenport. He then bought new Western Electric equipment and dedicated his new station on the Palmer campus on October 8, 1922. WOC became one of the original members of the NBC Radio Network in 1926. WOC was an AM broadcasting station, its FM station signed on the air in October 1948.
Extent
1 Volumes (in 1 folder.)
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
Range 33 Section 09; shares box
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center Repository
321 Main Street
Davenport IA 52801-1490 United States
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