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Today In Radio History

December 18

On this day in 1890, Edwin Howard Armstrong was born in New York City. He was an early radio pioneer and also the inventor of FM, Frequency Modulation.

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On this day in 1956, Phil Rizzuto contracted to be a New York Yankee radio-TV announcer.

On this day in 1971, the CBS Radio network cancelled Saturday morning band concerts.

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