Hobson-Huntsinger University Archives Photograph Collection, 1890-1982
Date
circa 1927
Decade
1920s
Photographer
Bergner's Studio
Subject (LCSH)
Musicians
Music
Radio--Transmitters and transmission
Musical ensembles
Subject (local)
KRWG (Radio station : Las Cruces, N.M.)
Historical context
''This photograph was taken in the KOB studio, which was founded in 1919 by Dean Ralph W. Goddard. He was the dean of the Engineering Department. Dean Goddard was granted a license to broadcast with the call letters 5XD those call letters were later changed to KOB. 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. The station eventually became known as KRWG in to honor Ralph W. Goddard its founder.'' Cited from ''History of broadcast radio in Las Cruces.''