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This Day in Minnesota History

January 29, 1928

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St. Paul's new 2,000-watt radio station KSTP inaugurates its illustrious broadcasting career in the Northwest with a seven-hour program that offers a "wide variety of entertainment" throughout the evening and runs until 2:00 A.M. the following morning. With beginnings in local stations WAMD (launched by Stanley E. Hubbard in 1923) and KFOY, KSTP would increase its power to a potential 50,000 watts by 1935 and claim to be the only high-fidelity, high-power radio transmitter in the West and the first US station to broadcast to Australia.

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