[BC] putting phone calls on the air

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For the record, Ed King died of lung cancer Nov 18, 1971 at the much too
young age of 50.
I corresponded with the station at the time as I had family in Pittsburgh
and had often listen to Party Line from my home in North Carolina.  In fact,
King once lived in NC and work for WSJS in Winton Salem.

 - Nat Kayle

On 9/16/06, Donna Halper <dlh at donnahalper.com> wrote:
>
> This is a semi-historical query.  I found an old clipping from
> January of 1929 (!) wherein a Minneapolis/St Paul announcer
> successfully put callers on the air.  I know that back then, the
> Federal Radio Commission (later the FCC) did not permit phone calls
> to air-- I thought it was because of technical problems that were not
> yet resolvable in the 1920s, but also the FRC seemed to think phone
> calls were "point to point communication" rather than mass
> communication.  Anyway, I was wondering when did radio stations begin
> putting callers on the air on a regular basis?  I know that there was
> a KDKA talk show with Ed and Wendy King in the late 40s or early 50s
> that had callers, but the hosts had to paraphrase or repeat what the
> callers said rather than put them on the air... so when did that all
> change, and what led to the change taking place-- was it in fact
> improvements in technology?
>
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