Radio Station Authorized For Local Company

Radio Station Authorized For Local Company

Authorization has been given the Washtenaw Broadcasting Co. by the Federal Communications Commission for the construction of a new standard 25-watt daytime radio station on 1,050 kilocycles at Ann arbor.

Several sites for the broadcasting studio have been considered by the company, but the communications commission has not approved one as yet, according to A. E. Greene, president of the broadcasting company and owner of Greene’s Cleaners and Dyers and the American Rug Cleaning works.

Other officers of the company which was formed three years ago are Edward F. Baughn, of Pontiac, who is connected with radio station CKLW at present, vice-president, and Paul G. Greene, local contractor with Johnson-Greene Co., secretary-treasurer.

"We expect to be on the air about the first of next year,’’ said the president, "and a 1,000-Watt transmitter will be installed whenever we receive notification of its release by the government.”

An application has also been filed for a license for frequency modulation, but it is unlikely that this will be granted until the postwar era, Mr. Greene said.