This year marks 20 years of KIT s Morning News with Dave and Lance. It s a minor milestone in KIT s 92 years long radio history but it s a pretty big deal to us! I don t know if our partnership will last another 8 years to get us to 100 or not, but radio milestones are on our radar these days and these caught our attention.
On this day in history 2/22/1924, President
Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House. Coolidge would eventually become known as America s first Radio President.
During his presidency, August 3, 1923 to March 4, 1929, running five years and seven months, Mr. Coolidge would make more than 40 radio addresses, becoming, as C. Bascom Slemp, Secretary to the President, put it, “the first President to communicate directly with all the people.”
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