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    K-State celebrates 100 years of radio broadcasting

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    By KMAN Staff on September 14, 2024 Local News
    One of the radio towers on the K-State campus, built 100 years ago. Staff photo by Emma Loura

    By Emma Loura eloura@themercury.com

    For 100 years, the radio towers behind Nichols Hall on the K-State campus have stood as a historical monument to the development of technology to bring information to the people of Kansas.

    The university on Friday held a ceremony honoring its long history of broadcasting, which including trailblazing the use of radio for education.

    K-State’s university station, KSAC, was the third radio station in Kansas, getting started just as pioneer radio stations were getting on the air in the 1920s.

    To view the full story visit theMercury.com.

     

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