WCAP (Washington, D.C.)

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This article is about the 1920s Washington, D.C. radio station. For the current station in Lowell, Massachusetts with this call sign, see WCAP (AM).

WCAP was a short-lived radio station located in Washington, D.C. during the mid-1920s. It was initially licensed in mid-1923 to the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company (C&P),[1] and its call letters were chosen to reflect the station owner. C&P was controlled by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T), and the station was the second of two, following WEAF (now WFAN) in New York City, that would be established by AT&T. WCAP was high-powered "Class B" station, and it shared time on the 640 AM frequency with WRC (now WTEM), owned by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).

On May 11, 1926, AT&T announced that a subsidiary, the Broadcasting Company of America (BCA), had been formed to take over its radio broadcasting assets, including WCAP.[2] Two months later AT&T signed an agreement to sell its BCA subsidiary to RCA for $1 million. Because there was no need for RCA to continue operation of two Washington stations, WCAP ceased broadcasting on July 31, 1926, with its hours ceded to WRC.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ "New Stations: Broadcasting Stations", Radio Service Bulletin, July 2, 1923, page 3.
  2. ^ Commercial Broadcasting Pioneer: The WEAF Experiment by William Peck Banning, 1946, page 288.
  3. ^ Big Business and Radio by Gleason Archer, L.L.D., 1939, page 279.
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