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WEVD was an American brokered programming radio station with some news-talk launched in August 1927 by the Socialist Party of America. Making use of the initials of recently deceased party leader Eugene Victor Debs in its call sign, the station operated from Woodhaven in the New York City borough of Queens. The station was purchased with a $250,000 radio fund raised by the Socialist Party in its largest fundraising effort of the 1920s and was intended to spread progressive ideas to a mass audience. A number of national trade unions and other institutions aided the Socialists in obtaining the station.

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  • WEVD (Woodhaven Emitting Victor Debs) est une ancienne station de radio américaine diffusant ses programmes en ondes moyennes sur New York. Lancée en 1927 par le Parti socialiste d'Amérique et nommée d’après le syndicaliste Eugene Victor Debs, elle a pour but de propager les idées socialistes. Les opérations de la station sont confiées à partir de 1932 au groupe responsable du , qui lance la chronique The Forward Hour, diffusée les dimanches à 11 heures du matin, et qualifiée par un historien de la radio de « plus célèbre programme radiophonique yiddishophone de tous les temps ». (fr)
  • WEVD was an American brokered programming radio station with some news-talk launched in August 1927 by the Socialist Party of America. Making use of the initials of recently deceased party leader Eugene Victor Debs in its call sign, the station operated from Woodhaven in the New York City borough of Queens. The station was purchased with a $250,000 radio fund raised by the Socialist Party in its largest fundraising effort of the 1920s and was intended to spread progressive ideas to a mass audience. A number of national trade unions and other institutions aided the Socialists in obtaining the station. Originally broadcasting at 1220 kHz AM, later on 1300 kHz, for many years on 1330 kHz and finally on 1050 kHz, operation of the station was acquired by the publishing association responsible for producing the Yiddish-language social democratic daily newspaper The Jewish Daily Forward in 1932. An FM station using the same call sign was added during the 1950s. After briefly leaving AM broadcasting in 1979, The Forward swapped its FM frequency for another AM frequency and continued broadcasting as a small ethnic station until divesting itself late in the 1980s. (en)
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  • Eugene Victor Debs
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  • 1927-08-18 (xsd:date)
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  • WSOM (1926–1927)
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  • 1050000.000000 (xsd:double)
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  • 1927-08-18 (xsd:date)
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  • Eugene Victor Debs (en)
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  • WEVD was named in honor of Socialist Party orator and publicist Eugene Victor Debs, borrowing his initials (en)
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  • WSOM (en)
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  • 1050.0
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  • WEVD (en)
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  • WEVD (Woodhaven Emitting Victor Debs) est une ancienne station de radio américaine diffusant ses programmes en ondes moyennes sur New York. Lancée en 1927 par le Parti socialiste d'Amérique et nommée d’après le syndicaliste Eugene Victor Debs, elle a pour but de propager les idées socialistes. Les opérations de la station sont confiées à partir de 1932 au groupe responsable du , qui lance la chronique The Forward Hour, diffusée les dimanches à 11 heures du matin, et qualifiée par un historien de la radio de « plus célèbre programme radiophonique yiddishophone de tous les temps ». (fr)
  • WEVD was an American brokered programming radio station with some news-talk launched in August 1927 by the Socialist Party of America. Making use of the initials of recently deceased party leader Eugene Victor Debs in its call sign, the station operated from Woodhaven in the New York City borough of Queens. The station was purchased with a $250,000 radio fund raised by the Socialist Party in its largest fundraising effort of the 1920s and was intended to spread progressive ideas to a mass audience. A number of national trade unions and other institutions aided the Socialists in obtaining the station. (en)
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  • WEVD (fr)
  • WEVD (en)
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  • WEVD (en)
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