Students running KRWG studio as one handles vinyl record album
Information
Image number
UA20500001
Image classification
Students-Extracurricular and Social Activities - 2050 - KRWG
Date
circa 1951
Decade
1950s
Description and notes
Students caught in action manning the KRWG public radio station microphone and handling a vinyl record album.
Historical context
''Today, Las Cruces has 9 Commercial AM and FM radio stations with a Spanish language FM format that began broadcasting the first of this month. There is also KRWG-FM, a Public Broadcasting Station on the campus of New Mexico State University and KRUX-FM located at Corbett Center. The roots of radio in Las Cruces date back to 1919 and Dean Ralph W. Goddard... Goddard was granted a license to broadcast with the call letters 5XD., later changed to KOB.'' Cited from ''History of broadcast radio in Las Cruces,'' https://www.krwg.org/post/history-broadcast-radio-las-cruces KOB was the first radio station west of the Mississippi to air a play by play of a football game when the New Mexico Agriculture and Mechanical Arts football team played against Albuquerque Indian School. Dean Goddard was the play by play announcer. After a hiatus, radio returned to Las Cruces in the form of KNMA which eventually became known as KRWG to honor Ralph W. Goddard its founder. Edited based on https://www.krwg.org/post/history-broadcast-radio-las-cruces
Subject (LCSH)
College students
Radio
Radio broadcasting
Radio journalism
Subject (local)
KRWG (Radio station : Las Cruces, N.M.)
Provenance
Chegin, Rita
Digital publisher
New Mexico State University Library
Access rights
Public record. No restrictions on use. See New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act, Chapter 14, Article 2, 8th Edition, 2015
Source
NMSU Library Archives and Special Collections Department