wprb 75th year anniversary
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The Early Days
December 14, 1940
December 15, 1940
February 8, 1941
May 14, 1943
March 5, 1945
March 14, 1945
Guests and Dignitaries
February 18, 1941Norman Thomas ‘05, Head of US Socialist Party
May 19, 1943First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
January 5, 1951VP of CBS William Ackerman ‘31
WPRU’s tenth anniversary
April 3, 1956CBS Radio News Reporter Charles Collingswood
March 2, 1960 Poet T.S. Eliot
May 1, 1958Physicist Dr. Edward Teller
April 27, 1962R Peter Straus, Pres. Of Straus Broadcasting Group
February 26, 1965 The Beach Boys
October 27, 1965“Cousin Brucie” Morrow
January 11, 1967NBC News Anchor Chet Huntley
November 20, 1967Rock and Roll
WPRB ROCK presents
March 6, 1970 Firesign Theatre
PRESENTED BY WPRB 103.3 FM
October 17, 1974Nixon Attorney General William Ruckelshous
Jean Shepherd
December 10, 1958
October 28, 1966
(Note : $1.00 Ticket Price!)
Jean Shepherd
Jean Shepherd
Summer Broadcasting
March 7, 1973
April 4, 1973
May 24, 1973
Awards
April 25, 1967
June 12, 1975
March 3, 1986
November 23, 2005
WPRU/WPRB Firsts
November 17, 1940First Tryouts
February 8, 1941First Sports Broadcast
October 9, 1941First Live Jazz Broadcast
April 3, 1946First Baseball Broadcast
September 23, 1955FM Broadcasting Announced
November 10, 1955First FM Broadcast
November 10, 1955First FM Broadcast
Our first FM Transmitter (1955)
October 30, 1946First Morning Program
February 21, 1961First Program Guide
November 14, 1962
Recruiting
February 10, 1941
March 6, 1946
June 10, 1957
June 21, 1969
September 27, 1971
July 23, 1976
July 23, 1976
July 23, 1976
News
April 26, 1946
March 11, 1948
March 11, 1948
November 19, 1954
May 7, 1958
October 14, 1969
October 20, 1969
February 27, 2002
Programming
May 14, 1951
March 11, 1952
December 10, 1959
April 8,
Folk Music on
Sunday Night!
September 26, 1967
April 8, 1963
February 23, 1971
March 17, 1971
February 15, 1972
October 24, 1972
April 6, 1977
October 12, 1984
Summer 1974 - ????
December 24/25, 1988-??? Jon Solomon airs
his 24 hour
marathon of Christmas
Music
Tech & Engineering
October 18, 1946
May 31, 1950
February 8, 1954
May 10, 1954
(That’s over $17,000 today!)
1955Tales of the
“Great Shutdown”WPRB LORE…TRUE or FALSE?
September 23, 1955
November 10, 1955
Officially Becomes WPRB
November 10, 1955
November 7, 1958
December 17, 1959
January 7, 1960
Hoisting the new FM antenna to the topof Holder Tower
March 17, 1960
May 2, 1961
October 16, 1961
October 30, 1961
October 2, 1962
103.5
103.3(Actual Change Date September 29, 1962)
October 25, 1963WPRB in Stereo
At Last!
October 8, 1991
Actual Start of Broadcast from new antenna: November 11, 1991
June 9, 2004WPRB begins broadcasting
from the “New Elipse” Dorm
(Later Named Bloomberg Hall)
October 7 to 14, 2007WPRB’s First Listener Fund Drive New Revenue Source for
Station
February 27, 2009Princeton Broadcasting
ServiceAcquires
Daily Princetonian
Clips from the
Larry DuPraz Digital
Archives,Mudd Manuscript
Library
Presentation Researched
and Produced by
Rob Schuman ‘74