Hobson-Huntsinger University Archives Photograph Collection, 1890-1982
Date
circa 1951
Decade
1950s
Subject (LCSH)
College students
Radio
Radio broadcasting
Radio journalism
Subject (local)
KRWG (Radio station : Las Cruces, N.M.)
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.'' 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.
Provenance
Chegin, Rita
Extent
4 x 5 in.
Notes
Students caught in action manning the KRWG public radio station microphone and handling a vinyl record album.