[BC] Another history question

[Tom Bosscher]

Donna Halper wrote:

> Famous First Facts agrees with me and gives it to 8MK (today WWJ)-- it 
> was on the air with a regular schedule on 20 August 1920 and dedicated 
> the studios on 31 August.  I have the microfilm of newspaper reports.  
> I have anecdotal evidence to support 1XE (later WGI), including the 
> eye-witness account of a reporter (Lewis Whitcomb) who went on to 
> become program director at a station that was in direct competition 
> with WGI but even when he was their competitor, he continued to tell 
> everyone that WGI had been on the air *at least* two months prior to 
> the famous KDKA first broadcast.  XWA in Montreal (later CFCF) was on 
> the air in December 1919. 
>
       Donna, if you can get copyright releases on the newspaper 
accounts, that would be very interesting to have on Barry's website, or, 
in your book (of which I would buy!) Can a person post a newspaper 
article on a website without direct permission if it is for historical 
reasons?

                   tom bosscher