WSBN
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WSBN is a commercial AM sports radio station licensed to Washington, D.C., and serving the Washington metropolitan area. It operates with 15,000 watts in the daytime and 2,700 watts at night using a d
The former WMAL radio tower site in Bethesda, Maryland
WSBN's radio transmitter tower in unincorporated Montgomery County, Maryland, June 2025.
Blue Network
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The Blue Network was the on-air name of a former American radio network, which broadcast from 1927 through 1945.
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…AM 630 frequency. WMAL was an affiliate of the CBS Radio Network from 1928 until October 19, 1932, and then was briefly unaffiliated until joining the NBC Blue Network in January 1933. The Blue Network later became ABC, with which WMAL was affiliated for many years, and which owned WMAL for several decades. By mid-1932…
NBC networks, 1933
Advertisement placed by the Enna Jettick Shoe Company promoting the appearance of Sir Harry Lauder on its NBC Blue program, December 1, 1929. Note that the text implies that the NBC Blue, NBC Orange (West Coast) and NBC Red networks were all participating in the broadcast.
Advertisement advertising the debut of the Lux Radio Theatre, which had a brief run on NBC Blue in 1934–35 before moving for a long run on CBS.
This 1944 advertisement for KATE in Albert Lea, Minnesota, while it dates from after the sale by NBC of the Blue Network, shows how the Blue Network continued to have access to NBC facilities; in this case, the famed radio studios at Rockefeller Center in New York City.