CKMO appears to have made its first broadcast on Thursday, July 19, 1928. That?s when the station appears in the Sun ?Tuning In? column. The Province begins listing it the next day. Several radio histories say CFCQ became CKMO but the radio listings show otherwise. CKMO took the place on the dial, and the programming, of CKWO.
The change in call-letters isn?t noted in any news stories.
The Sun and Province didn?t have identical radio summaries at this time. The Sun had a little column written by Charles M. DeFieux on radio highlights and gave NBC listings, while the Province gave listings for stations all down the West Coast, and featured cartoon rhymes dealing with radio.
I?m going to combine material from both papers to give you the local and regional broadcast day when CKMO signed on.
CKMO (411 metres) - 9 ? 10:30 am: morning programme; 12 ? 1 pm: luncheon programme; 3 ? 4:30 pm: matinee programme.
CJOR (291) - 11 am ? noon: music; 6 ? 7 pm: dinner programme.
CNRV (291) - 10 ? 11 am: morning hour of music; 10 ? 11 pm: CNRV trio
CKCD (411) - 8:30 ? 8:50: The Province news summary.
CKWX (410) - 10:30 am: morning hour of music; 4:30 pm: music hour; 6:30 pm: talk on milk; 6:45 pm: programme; 10:30 ? 11 pm: studio programme.
Other Coast Stations
CFCT (475) Victoria ? 8 am, market quotations; 6:20, sunset organ recital.
KFOA (447) Seattle ? 12:30, Shrine Club luncheon; 2:45, baseball; 8, studio programme.
KOMO (309) Seattle ? 1, Totem Concert orchestra and soloists; 6, orchestral; 7, N.B. Co.; 8, Imperial Hour; 9, N.B.C.
KJR (348) Seattle ? 10-1:30, characteristic programme, 6:30, dinner concert; 7:30, studio programme; 9, A.B.C. broadcast pla[i]n writing contest; 10, dance.
KGA (260) Spokane ? 12:30, music recital; 5, kiddies? programme; 9, simultaneous broadcast, KEX and KJR.
KEX (289) Portland - 6:30, studio programme; 7, dinner dance; 8:15-10, studio programme.
KGW (491) Portland ? 6, dinner concert; 9, N.B.C. programme; 10, orchestra and soloists.
KGO (384) Oakland ? 6:30, dinner concert; 7, N.B.C. programme; 8, studio; 9, N.B.C.
KPO (422) San Francisco ? 2:45, baseball; 5, children?s hour; 9, N.B.C.; 10, novelty programme.
KFRC (454) San Francisco ? 12, luncheon concert; 7:30, entertainers; 8, Mona Motor Merrymakers; 10, dance.
KFI (468) Los Angeles ? 6, dinner programme (male quartet); 7, N.B.C. programme; 8, orchestra; 9, N.B.C.
KFWB (361) Hollywood ? 2:15, league baseball; 6, dinner concert; 8-11, studio programme.
TUNING IN
Seven masters of musical composition will be represented by selections in the program from the Los Angeles studios of the NBC from 7 to 8 tonight. Artists participating in the program will include Purcell Mayer, violinist; Gacia Nord, soprano; Everton Seldham, baritone; and Prior Moore and his concert orchestra. The selections to be played include the aria from Massenet?s ?Le Cid? and ?False Suite? by Brahms. The Rounders will be heard from 9 to 9:30 and will be assited by the Atlan Trio. Among the harmony numbers will be ?Gypsy Love Song? from Victor Herbert?s ?The Fortune Teller.? Another of the popular campfire offerings will be given from 9:30 to 10 and then the Trocederans aree to entertain from 10 to 12.
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CFCT, Victoria, offer an organ recital from 7:20 to 7:30 tonight.
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From 9 to 10 tonight, KFRC, San Francisco, will present its weekly movie club offering.
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Radions are reminded that the Greater Vancouver Radio Association picnic will be held Sunday from the Union S.S. Co. dock at 9 a.m. to Selma Park.
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Billy?s Hawaiian Trio will entertain from 10 to 11 tonight, over KOIN, Portland.
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There will be a special program broadcast simultaneously from 8 to 9 tonight over KOMO, Seattle, KGW, Portland, and KHQ, Spokane.
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Many excellent programs are to be broadcast Friday evening, but features among the out-of-town offerings will likely be: KFRC, San Francisco, Skagway Journeys, 8 to 9; KOMO, Seattle, male quartet, 9 to 9:30; KGW, Portland, KFOA, Seattle and KHQ, Spokane, Hoot Owl?s Frolic, 10:30 to 12; and CFCT, Victoria, concert orchestra, 6:20 to 7:20.
ABC, by the way, is not the network we know today. It was a regional net out of Seattle that ended with its owner sent away for embezzlement. He stole money from his bank to run the network!
Note how advertising was still frowned upon. Few shows have names.
The Hoot Owls show, not too many years later, featured Mel Blanc before he went to California and became Bugs Bunny.
CKWX may want to bring back "talk on milk."
cArtie.