Blue Network - Blue Network Stations

Blue Network Stations

As noted above, during the 1930s and 1940s, the Blue Network was divided into groups of stations. The core group of stations was known as "Basic Blue", and covered the Northeast United States/New England and portions of the Upper Midwest, around the Great Lakes area. The Southern Blue Network covered the Deep South, the Mountain Blue Group the Mountain states, the Pacific Coast Blue Network the Pacific Coast states, and the Southwestern Blue Group the Oklahoma-Texas region.

A pamphlet published by the American Rolling Mill Co. in connection with a radio talk on "The Miracle of Steel" given on the Blue Network on April 9, 1939 has a listing of the Blue Network stations participating in this broadcast. They are as follows:

Basic Blue
  • WJZ New York
  • WBZ Boston
  • WBZA Springfield
  • WEAN Providence
  • WICC Bridgeport
  • WFIL Philadelphia
  • WBAL Baltimore
  • WMAL Washington
  • WSYR Syracuse
  • WHAM Rochester
  • WEBR Buffalo
  • KDKA Pittsburgh

  • WHK Cleveland
  • WSPD Toledo
  • WXYZ Detroit
  • WOWO Ft. Wayne
  • WENR Chicago
  • KWK St. Louis
  • WMT Cedar Rapids
  • WTCN Minneapolis-St. Paul
  • KSO Des Moines
  • KOIL Omaha
  • WREN Kansas City
  • WLW Cincinnati
Southern Blue
  • WMPS Memphis
  • WSGN Birmingham
  • WAGA Atlanta
  • WDSU New Orleans
  • WJBO Baton Rouge
Rocky Mountain Blue
  • KVOD Denver
  • KLO Ogden
  • KUTA Salt Lake City
Pacific Coast Blue
  • KGO San Francisco
  • KECA Los Angeles
  • KEX Portland
  • KJR Seattle
  • KGA Spokane
  • KFSD San Diego
  • KTMS Santa Barbara
Southwestern Blue
  • KTOK Oklahoma City
  • KGKO Ft. Worth-Dallas
  • KXYZ Houston.

Other Blue Network basic stations in 1939 were WABY (Albany, New York); WJTN (Jamestown, New York); WRTD (Richmond, Virginia); WLEU (Erie, Pennsylvania); CFCF (Montreal, Quebec) and WMFF in Plattsburgh, New York.

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