WANN Remote Ready Box
date: label: date made
content: 1950s
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This 1950s era remote ready box from Annapolis, Maryland radio station WANN (1190 AM) contained everything that was needed for remote radio broadcasts “on location.” The box is stenciled with the station’s call letters and contained a black rotary phone, Raytheon transformer box, Serial #324 Model RR-30, and miscellaneous cords, cables, tools, and phone input boxes. On-location radio broadcasts have been used since the 1950s to appeal to audiences and increase the radio station’s marketing potential.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>WANN (1190 AM) was a radio station based out of Annapolis, Maryland that primarily served the area's growing African American community. Morris Blum founded it in 1946, and it broadcast to the entire mid-Atlantic region. The station was home to disc jockey Charles "Hoppy" Adams starting in the early 1950s. Adams hosted weekly events at a local African American only beach, Carr's Beach, which were popular with the area's youth population. </p>
label: Description
content: <p>WANN continued to program gospel, rhythm and blues, and public affairs features until 1992 when the station changed to a mainstream country format with the catchphrase “Bay Country 1190.” Around 1998, the station changed ownership and became WBIS, broadcasting a News Talk Information format.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: American Enterprise
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Morris H. Blum
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0319.20
label: accession number
content: 2002.0319
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0319.20
label: serial number
content: 324
objectType: label: Object Name
content: box
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: plastic (overall material)
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content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 17 1/2 in x 10 in; 29.21 cm x 44.45 cm x 25.4 cm