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Size | 3.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 3,300 items) |
Abstract | WEED was a general entertainment radio station established in 1933 by William Avera Wynne (born 1903) in Greenville, N.C. The collection includes office correspondence and other files of WEED radio station, Rocky Mount, Nash County, N.C., and scattered files of WBAR, Bartow, Fla. Both stations were owned by William Avera Wynne. The WEED files include program logs, channel surveys, and communications with the Federal Communications Commission, and both the NBC and ABC radio network offices. |
Creator | WEED (Radio station : Rocky Mount, N.C.) |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2009
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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WEED was a general entertainment radio station established in 1933 by William Avera Wynne (born 1903) in Greenville, N.C. The station was relocated to Rocky Mount, Nash County, N.C., in 1934. In 1940 it affiliated with the National Broadcasting Company's (NBC) Blue Network which became the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in 1945. In 1948 an FM station (WEED-FM) was added.
William Avera Wynne was also involved in the creation of WBAR radio station in Bartow, Fla., in 1952.
Back to TopThe collection includes office correspondence and other files of WEED radio station, Rocky Mount, Nash County, N.C., and scattered files of WBAR, Bartow, Fla. The WEED files include program logs, channel surveys, applications, licenses, financial reports, and communications with the Federal Communications Commission, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), and both the NBC and ABC radio network offices.
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