WLW

WLW currently broadcasts using 50,000 watts of power, but that wasn't always the case. For about six years WLW experimented with broadcasting at 500,000 watts, the first station in the world to do so, during the overnight hours under callsign W8XO. It stopped in 1939 because of complaints from around the United States and Canada that WLW was overpowering other stations as far away as Toronto. WLW powered up again a few times during World War II in order to send special broadcasts to American troops in Europe, and has not broadcast at 500 kW since. After sundown, the station can be heard across much of the eastern half of the United States.

External Links

• Official station website (with streaming audio)
• History of WLW, Cincinnati, by John Price, 1979
• WLW Transmitter Page
• {{amq|WLW}}

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