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68-607: By day, WHB operates at 50,000 watts using a non-directional antenna . However, because AM 810 is a clear-channel frequency reserved for Class A stations KGO in San Francisco and WGY in Schenectady, New York , at night WHB reduces power to 5,000 watts, using five directional towers located off Northeast Cookingham Drive in the Nashua neighborhood of Northland, Kansas City, adjacent to Interstate 435 . Its studios are located in

136-539: A Top 40 format. WHB became the first station in the country to play Top 40 music 24 hours a day, and it became an instant hit in Kansas City, becoming the most popular station by the end of the year. With 10,000 watts in the daytime, WHB became one of the most powerful Top-40 stations in North America, attracting programming directors and station owners from across the country to observe Storz's operations. One observer

204-546: A light bulb with a power rating of 100 W is turned on for one hour, the energy used is 100 watt hours (W·h), 0.1 kilowatt hour, or 360  kJ . This same amount of energy would light a 40-watt bulb for 2.5 hours, or a 50-watt bulb for 2 hours. Power stations are rated using units of power, typically megawatts or gigawatts (for example, the Three Gorges Dam in China is rated at approximately 22 gigawatts). This reflects

272-411: A US withdrawal of NATO, citing financial cost, and suggesting instead that European countries be responsible for their security. McLendon, a conservative Democrat , garnered 43% of the vote in a primary race against liberal incumbent US Senator Ralph Yarborough in 1964. During the campaign he was accompanied by such Hollywood luminaries as John Wayne , Chill Wills , and Robert Cummings . He ran on

340-506: A United States Armed Forces Radio Service station. He then briefly attended Harvard Law School but left prematurely to buy an interest in a station in Palestine, Texas , KNET . McLendon was a co-founder of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers . McLendon was married in 1943 to Gay Noe, daughter of James A. Noe , former governor of Louisiana; in 1973 he married Susan Stafford ,

408-499: A full-time affiliate of ESPN Radio , allowing WHB to focus more on local sports talk. Days later, the family of Jerry Green, the majority shareholder in Union Broadcasting, filed suit against Boeger and Union Broadcasting, for the switch to sports talk on KCXM. Green, whose health had been declining, eventually sold his interest in Union Broadcasting and died on August 15, 2007, at the age of 77. On December 1, 2007, WHB assumed

476-442: A group led by Roy Disney . WHB discontinued Top-40 in favor of an oldies format, capitalizing on the playlists the station had maintained in the past. In 1989, KCMO-FM became "Oldies 95" and quickly won over former WHB listeners. Once commanding 50% of Kansas City's 1.1 million radio listeners, WHB only attained a 1.2 rating in the winter of 1990. Shamrock leased WHB in 1993 to Apollo Communications, who owned KMXV and KUDL at

544-437: A period of one year: equivalent to approximately 114 megawatts of constant power output. The watt-second is a unit of energy, equal to the joule . One kilowatt hour is 3,600,000 watt seconds. While a watt per hour is a unit of rate of change of power with time, it is not correct to refer to a watt (or watt-hour) as a watt per hour. Gordon McLendon Gordon Barton McLendon (June 8, 1921 – September 14, 1986 )

612-520: A platform of opposing the Civil Rights Act , arguing that it gave "broad and sweeping powers" to the federal government. He entered the primary for the 1968 Texas gubernatorial election, but withdrew from both the election and the Democratic Party, citing President Lyndon Johnson 's Vietnam War policies. In 1978 McLendon and producer Fred Weintraub worked on an idea for a TV series about

680-438: A record price for a radio station. By 1979 the family had sold all of its broadcasting properties, including fourteen radio and two television stations, worth approximately $ 100 million. By 1985 Forbes magazine estimated McLendon's net worth at $ 200 million. In 1954, McLendon considered acquiring a share of Oklahoma City UHF station KMPT , but opted against it, finding the struggling station "too far gone" (it closed

748-598: A second." In the 1950s, Moody also fashioned a unique programming idea for WHB during the overnight hours, "Silent Sam, the All-night Deejay Man." It was actually jukebox movements programmed to play records one-after-another with a jingle and a pre-recorded public-service announcement broadcast every 15-minutes. As such, Moody is considered a pioneer in radio automation . WHB used the melodic and catchy PAMS jingles to remind listeners which radio station they were hearing. Those jingles sometimes referred to WHB as

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816-590: A series of rotating co-hosts, including Dave Stewart (also of Metro Sports and formerly of KMBC ), George Brett, Kevin Harlan (CBS Sports), Lynn Dickey, and Joe Randa. Stewart took over the reins as primary host upon Boal's retirement in 2008, but the show was cancelled a few months later. Boal and Harlan continue to make regular weekly appearances on the remaining three scheduled shows. The morning drive time show, The Border Patrol , originally began with co-hosts Steven St. John and "Bulldog" Bob Fescoe. The premise emphasizes

884-516: A syndicated columnist, radio talk-show host, and actress. McLendon was known for his elaborate practical jokes, orchestrated on such notables as sitting President Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover both of whom he called friends. He was a member of the board of stewards of Highland Park Methodist Church in Dallas and the board of directors of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Texas chairman of

952-535: A turbine, which generates 648 MW e (i.e. electricity). Other SI prefixes are sometimes used, for example gigawatt electrical (GW e ). The International Bureau of Weights and Measures , which maintains the SI-standard, states that further information about a quantity should not be attached to the unit symbol but instead to the quantity symbol (e.g., P th = 270 W rather than P = 270 W th ) and so these unit symbols are non-SI. In compliance with SI,

1020-486: A unit of time, namely 1 J/s. In this new definition, 1 absolute watt = 1.00019 international watts. Texts written before 1948 are likely to be using the international watt, which implies caution when comparing numerical values from this period with the post-1948 watt. In 1960, the 11th General Conference on Weights and Measures adopted the absolute watt into the International System of Units (SI) as

1088-715: A year later). McLendon was also the last owner of ABC affiliate KCND-TV in Pembina, North Dakota . In 1975, he sold that station to Winnipeg executive Izzy Asper , who moved the station to Winnipeg and used it to start up CKND-TV , which would become the genesis of the present-day Canwest media empire and the modern-day Global Television Network . In 1959, McLendon co-produced and co-starred in two sci-fi monster movies filmed in Texas, The Killer Shrews and The Giant Gila Monster . He produced over 150 motion-picture campaigns for United Artists from 1963 to 1966. At one point, he became

1156-512: Is also noted in radio history as the founder of the Liberty Radio Network (noted for its daily national broadcasts of Major League Baseball ) in the 1940s. Liberty was the second largest radio network in the U.S. at the time with over 458 affiliated stations. Most of Liberty's MLB broadcasts were re-creations of games, utilizing McLendon himself and future sportscasting stars such as Lindsey Nelson and Jerry Doggett on play-by-play. It

1224-700: Is named after the Scottish inventor James Watt . The unit name was proposed by C. William Siemens in August 1882 in his President's Address to the Fifty-Second Congress of the British Association for the Advancement of Science . Noting that units in the practical system of units were named after leading physicists, Siemens proposed that watt might be an appropriate name for a unit of power. Siemens defined

1292-475: Is the primary entry point station for Kansas and western Missouri in the Emergency Alert System . Established by Sam Adair and John T. Schilling, WHB started experimental broadcasts on April 10, 1922. It used the frequency 833 kHz. WHB is one of Kansas City's oldest radio stations, second only to KCSP which premiered on February 16 of that year, as WDAF. In the early days of radio broadcasting,

1360-523: Is the rate at which electrical work is performed when a current of one ampere (A) flows across an electrical potential difference of one volt (V), meaning the watt is equivalent to the volt-ampere (the latter unit, however, is used for a different quantity from the real power of an electrical circuit). 1   W = 1   V ⋅ A . {\displaystyle \mathrm {1~W=1~V{\cdot }A} .} Two additional unit conversions for watt can be found using

1428-810: The Wichita suburbs), along with large slices of Nebraska and Iowa . Due to the way the frequency swap was structured, the FCC considers KCMO to have changed its call sign to WHB and the other way around. In September 1999, Union Broadcasting purchased WHB from Kanza for $ 8 million, considered a high price for an AM radio station. Union Broadcasting was owned by banker Jerry Green, former Royals players Jeff Montgomery and Brian McRae , broadcasters Kevin Kietzman and Duke Frye, and Chad Boeger, owner of sports station KCTE in Independence, Missouri . Because KCTE could only broadcast in

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1496-458: The daytime , Union transferred much of the sports radio format, including sports updates from ESPN Radio and games from the Westwood One radio network, to WHB. The new sports format launched on WHB at midnight on October 1, 1999. In response, Entercom moved WDAF to FM in 2003 to make way for a rival sports station, KCSP . Jason Whitlock , Bill Maas , and Tim Grunhard , who were a part of

1564-681: The " W orld's H ottest B roadcasters." The station limited the number of commercials per hour and maintained a tight playlist limited to only the biggest Top 40 hits. WHB's popularity increased as songs on the Top 40 began to include rock and roll hits by Elvis Presley , Bobby Darin , and The Beatles . Months after the Beatles landed in the United States, Todd Storz died of a stroke at age 39. Despite Storz's death, WHB remained on top, as prolific DJs including Gene Woody, Johnny Dolan and Phil Jay commanded

1632-688: The 1960s until the time of his death. McLendon was born in Paris, Texas, and spent his early childhood in Oklahoma. The family moved to Atlanta, Texas , where he attended high school and began to develop his interest in broadcasting. He covered sports events and broadcast commentary over the school's public address system. He graduated from Kemper Military Academy. He won a nationwide political-essay contest judged by journalists Arthur Brisbane, Henry Luce , and Walter Lippmann . After being accepted to Harvard , Yale, and Princeton , he decided to attend Yale because it

1700-597: The 1990s as WDAF. During the 2014 and 2015 MLB postseason, WHB and KCSP aired simultaneous broadcasts of Royals games. WHB aired the ESPN Radio feed, while KCSP aired the Royals Radio Network. feed. Under Major League Baseball broadcast rules, KCSP was the only terrestrial station allowed to broadcast the Royals Radio Network feed; all other stations on the network (including former flagship WIBW in Topeka ) had to carry

1768-561: The CIA. He was disillusioned with the negative portrayal of the agency such as in the film Three Days of the Condor . As a result McLendon and David Atlee Phillips approached CIA Director Stansfield Turner in March 1978 about the idea although nothing came of the proposal. McLendon was acquainted with Jack Ruby , the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald . Ruby was both an admirer and friend of McLendon, he told

1836-417: The ESPN Radio feed. WHB is currently the Kansas City radio home of Kansas Jayhawks football and men's basketball, and carries the weekly "Hawk Talk" program with coaches Bill Self and Lance Leipold . Watt The watt (symbol: W ) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m ⋅s . It is used to quantify

1904-449: The FBI that McLendon was one of his six "closest friends". McLendon allowed Ruby to advertise on his radio station, KFIL. Following Ruby's arrest he asked George Senator to get in contact with McLendon to let him know where he was. Ruby testified that the day before his murder of Oswald, he attempted to call McLendon but could not reach him and the last letter Ruby wrote before he died in prison

1972-1131: The FM stations most instrumental in the downfall of KLIF was its former sister station KNUS (now KSPF ), of which McLendon retained ownership after selling KLIF and revamped as a rock-oriented Top 40. The McLendon family built a communications empire that included radio stations across the United States. In addition to KLIF, McLendon owned KNUS–FM in Dallas, KOST in Los Angeles, WYNR (later WNUS) & WNUS-FM in Chicago, WWWW–FM in Detroit, KEEL in Shreveport, WAKY in Louisville, KABL in Oakland, KABL–FM in San Francisco, KILT in Houston, KTSA in San Antonio (that he briefly renamed KAKI due to

2040-520: The March of Dimes, and an honorary chairman of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Poppy Drive. In 1964–65 he served as a communications adviser to the United States Peace Corps . In 1971 he conducted a month-long all-expense-paid broadcasting course for nine minority-group members, including African Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexican-Americans. McLendon, who nicknamed himself "The Old Scotchman",

2108-536: The Royals were not playing, WHB's audience was smaller than KCSP. Between the Lines , hosted by Kevin Kietzman (former WDAF-TV sportscaster), from 2 to 7 PM, ranks among the top-rated sports shows in the city. Soren Petro hosts The Program from 10 AM to 2 PM. A mid-morning show, Crunch Time (9-11 AM), was originally hosted by Maas, Grunhard and Frank Boal until the first two broadcasters defected, leaving Boal to carry on with

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2176-546: The WHB Air Force. As late as 1981, WHB's ratings remained in the double digits. WHB, however, could not fend off the increasing competition from FM radio. Starting in 1973 with KBEQ-FM , WHB's listenership declined as more Kansas Citians listened to their favorite hits in stereo and with less interference common to AM broadcasting. While KBEQ and KUDL transitioned from their AM to FM frequencies, WHB never acquired an FM outlet, nor did any of its sister stations . Ironically,

2244-467: The above equation and Ohm's law . 1   W = 1   V 2 / Ω = 1   A 2 ⋅ Ω , {\displaystyle \mathrm {1~W=1~V^{2}/\Omega =1~A^{2}{\cdot }\Omega } ,} where ohm ( Ω {\displaystyle \Omega } ) is the SI derived unit of electrical resistance . The watt

2312-682: The border rivalry between the universities of Missouri and Kansas (St. John is a stalwart Missouri fan, while Fescoe is a KU alum). Fescoe left WHB in 2007 for St. Louis sports station 590 KFNS , and was replaced by Nate Bukaty (also a KU alum). Fescoe returned to the Kansas City market on rival KCSP in January 2009 to battle the Border Patrol with his own show, Fescoe in the Morning . WHB carried Kansas City Brigade arena football games in 2006 and 2007. On January 4, 2007, sister station 97.3 FM KCXM became

2380-403: The controversial Win or Lose Oil Company. The firm was established to obtain leases on state-owned lands so that the directors might collect bonuses and sublease the mineral rights to the major oil companies. Although ruled legal, these activities were done in secret and the stockholders were unknown to the public. Noe and Long made a profit on the bonuses and the resale of those state leases, using

2448-518: The day. KCTE also carries some sporting events that WHB is unable to air due to other commitments. The station is also noted for its large coverage area, as WHB can be heard as far north as the southern fringe of South Dakota , as far east as the Quad Cities viewing area ( Muscatine, Iowa , etc), as far west as Garden City, Kansas , and as far south as Fayetteville, Arkansas . City-grade coverage can be achieved as far north as southwestern Iowa . It

2516-668: The dividing line between call signs beginning with a "W" and those beginning with a "K" was at the western border of Kansas (today, the dividing line is the Mississippi River), which is the reason WHB is one of only a few stations in Missouri whose call letters start with a "W". WHB formally received its license on May 10, 1922. Originally owned by the Sweeney Automobile School , the Cook Paint and Varnish Company purchased

2584-515: The energy company Ørsted A/S uses the unit megawatt for produced electrical power and the equivalent unit megajoule per second for delivered heating power in a combined heat and power station such as Avedøre Power Station . When describing alternating current (AC) electricity, another distinction is made between the watt and the volt-ampere . While these units are equivalent for simple resistive circuits , they differ when loads exhibit electrical reactance . Radio stations usually report

2652-611: The first mobile news units in American radio, the first traffic reports, the first jingles, the first all-news radio station, and the first "easy-listening" programming. He also was among the first broadcasters in the United States to editorialize. McLendon especially attracted attention for his stern denunciations of French president Charles De Gaulle , whom he described as "an ungrateful four-flusher" who could "go straight to hell." The McLendon family sold KLIF in 1971 to Fairchild Industries of Germantown, Maryland, for $ 10.5 million, then

2720-468: The first to find the station's logo painted on the back of a turtle. Although listenership soared to as much as 50 percent, Kansas City police chief Bernard Brannon suggested in the June 4, 1956 issue of Time Magazine that Storz's treasure hunts should be banned. Storz continued to operate daily, weekly, and monthly cash promotions to maintain listenership. WHB also was a pioneer in the talk radio format with

2788-444: The first years of WHB programming, were hired by KCSP. Soren Petro joined WHB in January 2004 after KMBZ ended its sports talk programming and moved it to KCSP. WHB picked up broadcasting rights to Kansas City Royals baseball games in 2003, allowing its Arbitron ratings share to peak in the spring at 4.0. In 2007, WHB withdrew its bid to renew the rights and Entercom began broadcasting Royals games on KCSP in 2008. Even when

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2856-579: The frequency 102.1 MHz (now KCKC-FM ) and sharing Channel 9 with KMBC-TV . Omaha entrepreneur Todd Storz and his Mid-Continent Broadcasting Company purchased WHB from Cook on June 10, 1954. Upon the sale, WHB-TV was absorbed by KMBC-TV, which Cook purchased the month before. Building on his successful attempts at increasing listenership at KOWH in Omaha (now KCRO ) and WTIX-AM in New Orleans , Storz discontinued WHB's network programming and introduced

2924-459: The full ESPN Radio lineup when KCXM was sold to Educational Media Foundation , which operates the K-LOVE brand of contemporary Christian radio stations and changed KCXM to that format as KLRX . Due to the change of ownership on FM and the signal restrictions on AM, Union chose not to renew the Royals radio contract. The current Royals flagship station is KCSP, which held the rights for some years in

2992-657: The funds primarily for political purposes. McLendon became an authority on precious metals and wrote a book entitled Get Really Rich in the Coming Super Metals Boom , published in 1981. He also authored a number of other books, including How to Succeed in Broadcasting (1961), Correct Spelling in Three Hours (1962), Understanding American Government (1964), and 100 Years of America in Sound (1965). 1954 he called for

3060-537: The largest shareholder in Columbia Pictures . He was the executive producer of Escape to Victory , directed by John Huston and starring Michael Caine , Sylvester Stallone , and Max von Sydow . He also owned McLendon Theatres, which operated more than forty movie theatres throughout the south, including many drive-ins . McLendon's father-in-law was former Louisiana Governor and oil magnate James A. Noe who, along with his partner, Governor Huey Long , formed

3128-678: The last of the ninth with two runners aboard, and McLendon barked: Gordon then went silent and let the crowd's roar speak for itself. With radio still the more popular nationwide medium then, and with Russ Hodges ' famous radio call limited to WMCA and its Giants' network, McLendon's call is how most Americans heard the NL clincher. For a time he owned a converted fishing boat in the North Sea which beamed into Sweden and other European countries. In 1960 McLendon and his close friend Clint Murchison owned Radio Nord which broadcast from an offshore facility that

3196-464: The late-night program "NiteBeat". Using a multi-line system invented by WHB engineer Dale Moody, disc jockeys and hosts could field calls from across the Midwest as guests from all walks of life visited the studio. WHB also kept listeners informed with "News at 55" (at 55 minutes past each hour) followed by a world time check at the top of every hour, which the station claimed to be accurate "to 1/20000 of

3264-460: The maximum power output it can achieve at any point in time. A power station's annual energy output, however, would be recorded using units of energy (not power), typically gigawatt hours. Major energy production or consumption is often expressed as terawatt hours for a given period; often a calendar year or financial year. One terawatt hour of energy is equal to a sustained power delivery of one terawatt for one hour, or approximately 114 megawatts for

3332-626: The military bases in the city), and KELP in El Paso. McLendon introduced the all-news format to Southern California through XETRA in Tijuana . McLendon was one of the originators of the " beautiful music " format on his KABL in Oakland, California , in 1959; and as the founder of the first all-news radio station ( WNUS in Chicago) in the 1960s. He is credited by most broadcast historians with having established

3400-488: The power of their transmitters in units of watts, referring to the effective radiated power . This refers to the power that a half-wave dipole antenna would need to radiate to match the intensity of the transmitter's main lobe . The terms power and energy are closely related but distinct physical quantities. Power is the rate at which energy is generated or consumed and hence is measured in units (e.g. watts) that represent energy per unit time . For example, when

3468-547: The previous owners of WHB and KXOK in St. Louis were listed in 1950 as holding FM licenses: WHB-FM at 102.1 MHz and KXOK-FM at 94.7 MHz. However, both stations were sold before FM became a leading radio force. By the mid-1970s, these frequencies would become homes to KYYS (Kansas City) and KSHE (St. Louis), each filling the air with 100,000 watts of album-based progressive rock music. In 1985, Storz Broadcasting, then led by Todd's father Robert, sold WHB to Shamrock Broadcasting,

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3536-497: The program director of 570 WMCA , leading that station to the position of #1 pop music station in New York between 1963 and 1966. Storz cultivated listenership numbers by one of his treasure hunts. One day in 1955, WHB broadcast clues telling listeners where they might find a prize worth $ 1000. After leading listeners throughout the metropolitan area, the final clue resulted in traffic tie-ups outside Loose Park as listeners tried to be

3604-543: The project secret, these plans were shared with Jocelyn Stevens , editor of Queen magazine in London, who was a financial supporter of another station, Radio Caroline . Later in 1964 McLendon shared his experience at offshore broadcasting with Don Pierson of Eastland, Texas , who created a mirror of McLendon's KLIF radio station in Dallas . That new incarnation was to have been called Radio KLIF London, but when it came on air it

3672-449: The rate at which work is done is one watt. 1   W = 1   J / s = 1   N ⋅ m / s = 1   k g ⋅ m 2 ⋅ s − 3 . {\displaystyle \mathrm {1~W=1~J{/}s=1~N{\cdot }m{/}s=1~kg{\cdot }m^{2}{\cdot }s^{-3}} .} In terms of electromagnetism , one watt

3740-537: The rate of energy transfer . The watt is named in honor of James Watt (1736–1819), an 18th-century Scottish inventor , mechanical engineer , and chemist who improved the Newcomen engine with his own steam engine in 1776. Watt's invention was fundamental for the Industrial Revolution . When an object's velocity is held constant at one meter per second against a constant opposing force of one newton ,

3808-649: The station in 1930. The station jumped between 730 kHz and 850 kHz (860 kHz in 1938) before 1946, when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized the station to broadcast at 710 kHz. The station published a quarterly magazine called Swing , keeping readers up to date with the Kansas City music scene, which had waned in the wake of the Pendergast Machine 's downfall and World War II . While owned by Cook, WHB expanded briefly into FM radio and television, operating on

3876-725: The suburb of Overland Park, Kansas , also the headquarters of its owner, Union Broadcasting. WHB is an affiliate of ESPN Radio . It also carries play-by-play games of Sporting Kansas City , the Kansas Jayhawks , UMKC Kangaroos athletics, and the Kansas City Mavericks of the ECHL . Union Broadcasting also owns AM 1510 KCTE , another all-sports station in the Kansas City metropolitan area . KCTE primarily carries ESPN Radio programming while WHB mainly airs local sports shows during

3944-538: The switch to the new format on September 28. Dan Diamond, a lifelong friend of the Carter family, aired a Saturday morning request show and Wayne Combs headed up the News Department at WHB. A frequency swap with talk radio station KCMO-AM on October 8, 1997 gave WHB one of the largest daytime coverage areas in the Midwest, providing at least secondary coverage to almost half of Missouri, almost half of Kansas (as far west as

4012-563: The time. Upon buying the station on September 24, Apollo sold the station to Kanza Communications of Carrollton, Missouri , with Mike Carter as President. Kanza announced they would flip WHB to a country music/farm format that was programmed on KMZU -FM in Carrollton and KTRX-FM in Tarkio, Missouri on WHB. During the final days of the oldies format on WHB, the station aired promos directing listeners to KCMO-FM , who flipped to oldies in 1989. WHB made

4080-458: The unit of power. In the electric power industry , megawatt electrical ( MWe or MW e ) refers by convention to the electric power produced by a generator, while megawatt thermal or thermal megawatt (MWt, MW t , or MWth, MW th ) refers to thermal power produced by the plant. For example, the Embalse nuclear power plant in Argentina uses a fission reactor to generate 2,109 MW t (i.e. heat), which creates steam to drive

4148-440: The unit within the existing system of practical units as "the power conveyed by a current of an Ampère through the difference of potential of a Volt". In October 1908, at the International Conference on Electric Units and Standards in London, so-called international definitions were established for practical electrical units. Siemens' definition was adopted as the international watt. (Also used: 1 A × 1 Ω.) The watt

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4216-412: Was Gordon McLendon , who went back to Dallas and introduced his version of Top-40 radio at KLIF . Rick Sklar also heard WHB and adapted elements of its format to build the Top-40 format in New York City , at WABC , which became the most listened to radio station in North America during the 1970s. There is another New York connection. Ruth Meyer worked at WHB in the late 1950s, and went on to become

4284-408: Was a live, not recreated game that provided McLendon and Liberty with their greatest career moment. The Old Scotchman himself was behind the Liberty microphone at the Polo Grounds in New York for the October 3, 1951, finale of the three-game National League play-off series between the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers . Bobby Thomson of the Giants swung at Dodger Ralph Branca 's 0–1 pitch in

4352-401: Was an American radio broadcaster. Nicknamed "the Maverick of Radio", McLendon is widely credited for perfecting, during the 1950s and 1960s, the commercially successful Top 40 radio format created by Todd Storz . He also developed offshore pirate radio broadcasting to both Scandinavia and the British Isles . In addition, he was active in circles of conservative business-political power in

4420-431: Was called a pirate radio station by the Swedish government because it was located on board a radio ship and outside of their legal jurisdiction. When that venture came to an end the vessel was brought back to Galveston, Texas , where the ship remained for a year until it was leased to a British operation. The new 1964 station was called Radio Atlanta (after McLendon's home town). Unfortunately due to blunders in keeping

4488-420: Was defined as equal to 10 units of power in the practical system of units. The "international units" were dominant from 1909 until 1948. After the 9th General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1948, the international watt was redefined from practical units to absolute units (i.e., using only length, mass, and time). Concretely, this meant that 1 watt was defined as the quantity of energy transferred in

4556-419: Was identified as Radio London . McLendon and his father founded radio station KLIF (The Mighty 1190) in Oak Cliff , Dallas , Texas in 1947, and introduced the Top 40 format there in the early 1950s to great success. KLIF enjoyed a long run at the top of the Dallas radio ratings in the 1950s and 1960s, but its standing in the market fell in the early 1970s thanks to growing competition from FM radio. One of

4624-412: Was the only school that didn't offer him a scholarship. At Yale, he was editor of the Yale Literary Magazine and a member of Chi Psi , a Yale fraternity. McLendon fought in World War II and was commissioned as a Japanese-language intelligence officer in the Office of Naval Intelligence . He was later reassigned, giving him the opportunity to extend his style of commentary to political events over

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