[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 62 (Thursday, April 7, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E373]
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                           HONORING WBT RADIO

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                            HON. DAN BISHOP

                           of north carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, April 7, 2022

  Mr. BISHOP of North Carolina. Madam Speaker, today, I rise to pay 
tribute to WBT Radio on the 100th anniversary of its founding. For over 
a century, WBT has helped inform and entertain residents of the City of 
Charlotte--my hometown. Charles Kuralt, Billy Graham, Rush Limbaugh, 
and Charlotte's John Hancock are just some of the voices that have come 
through WBT's airwaves in the past, and that tradition continues in the 
broadcasts of names like Bo Thompson, Vince Coakley, and Pete Kaliner.
  WBT traces its origins from early broadcasts by radio amateurs who 
set up a transmitter in an abandoned chicken coop. These sporadic 
transmissions later expanded into playing phonograph records over the 
air, and then into the broadcasts we know and love today. The U.S. 
Department of Commerce officially granted WBT a broadcast license on 
April 10, 1922. At the time, it was only the third licensed radio 
station in the United States and the first in the entire Southeast.
  I am proud to honor WBT Radio on their 100th anniversary. Here's to 
100 more years of radio excellence from the station heard ``from Maine 
to Miami.''

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