List of Oldest Radio Stations

The title of oldest radio station is disputed by several in Europe (UK and Germany), and in the United States and Canada.

Several potential contenders for the title of "oldest radio station" are listed below, organized by sign-on date:

Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, oldest, radio and/or stations:

    Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    Hey, you dress up our town very nicely. You don’t look out the Chamber of Commerce is going to list you in their publicity with the local attractions.
    Robert M. Fresco, and Jack Arnold. Dr. Matt Hastings (John Agar)

    The oldest hath borne most; we that are young
    Shall never see so much, nor live so long.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    There was a girl who was running the traffic desk, and there was a woman who was on the overnight for radio as a producer, and my desk assistant was a woman. So when the world came to an end, we took over.
    Marya McLaughlin, U.S. television newswoman. As quoted in Women in Television News, ch. 3, by Judith S. Gelfman (1976)

    After I was married a year I remembered things like radio stations and forgot my husband.
    P. J. Wolfson, John L. Balderston (1899–1954)