Program guide for W47NY New York City, Dec 1942
 

http://www.wa2ise.com/radios/w47ny.jpg
A classical music station on the old 45MHz FM band, schedule of music to be played.

I don't know, but perhaps the predecessor of WQXR-FM.
Thanks for the pic. I will put a copy with my 1941 Stromberg 935-PLM console.
Kevin

Is that a picture of a skyscraper transmitting antenna on the cover? Although out of date, my S-C 1210-PLM would need some similar accompaniment.

From the "47" in the call sign, can it be assumed that it transmitted on 44.7 MHz? :scratch2:

jr

Is that someone's idea of a joke? "W47NY" looks like a TV translator call sign, which would make no sense as there was no such thing as television (at least as we know it today) in 1942. If this were a radio station, it would, of course, have a call sign in the form of W---, not "W-47" or whatever. FM broadcasts on 88-108 MHz anyway, so the whole thing looks wrong--to me, anyhow.

Not a joke! Here read about the early 45 MHz FM band:

http://tenwatts.blogspot.com/2011/03...r-fm-band.html

I have several radios in my collection that tune both bands.

Edit add: Here is a picture of a 8H023 Zenith like I have (not mine however)... Both bands (45 & 100 MHZ) are clearly visible on the dial, as well as standard broadcast AM.

http://radioattic.com/item.htm?radio=1230213

jr

Looks like it was a competitor to
45.9 W2XQR (W59NY, WQXQ)
according to http://tenwatts.blogspot.com/2011/03...r-fm-band.html

Looking at the guide, they also played stuff like "Cocktail Lounge", "Tea Dancing Party", UP News and such

Found a 1942 listing of the 45 MHz band FM stations that seems to support the assertion that double digit number in the call sign indicated the last 2 numbers of the frequency, with the leading "4" being assumed. W47NY did indeed transmit on 44.7 MHz.
There are some "oddball" call signs in the list that did not follow that convention, but these were like W2X (experimental - zone W2 signs) and other zone experimental signs, as well as some "normal looking" four letter signs.

http://jeff560.tripod.com/1942fm.html

The use of the last one or two characters in the call sign to indicate the city was apparent, as well, although I don't understand how "MM" was chosen to represent Winston-Salem. (W41MM, Winston-Salem). :scratch2:

jr

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I live about 20 minutes south of Winston-Salem, so you aroused my curiosity and I found out what the MM stands for. It's Mount Mitchell. That's where the tower was located for the station, but it was owned by the same man who owned WSJS in Winston. This is from WSJS' site...

I remember listening to WSJS-FM when their format was still classical music, in the early 1970s. I also listened to WMIT in Black Mountain, which was not always easy to get reception-wise. I never knew it was owned by Billy Graham until I read the above info.

VERY COOL! THANKS!
I never would have guessed that in a million years. Wild about the 350KW, as well... must have been a real DXers treat !

jr

NTSC monochome was standardized in the first half of 1941, and there were TV stations in at least NYC, Chicago, and L.A.....Many pre-war sets were or could be realigned from the RCA 441line AM sound to 525line with AM slope detection of the FM sound.

The audience was small, but war time TV broadcasting was a thing.

Scanned in all of the program guide, so you could print it all (you'll have to resequence the pages to make it come out double sided correct to create a booklet).
Some of the pages were blank, seems the info for some days got lost at the printers...