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A pioneer in radio since the first days of earphones and home-mace

crystal sets, Radio Station WOAI has consistently kept abreast of the progression of quality broadcasting. San Antonio, Texas, our city of license, is only one of the many rapidly growing south

Texas areas served by WOAI. The first WOAI transmitter, a 500 watt

unit, was signed on the air at 10:3083 September 25, 1922 by Mr. G.

A. C. Halff. It was one of the first super powered stations in Texas. As the story goes .....Mr. Halff was able to obtain hundreds

ot small radios to give away in conjunction with his business of the time. The problem Which developed was that no one wanted his radios because they didn't have a station to listen to. Before long

Mr. Haltt put WOAl on the air and gave away all his radios!

The initial programming was a little bit of everything .nd

anything! There were daily presentations featuring violin .nd piano selections with information on a variety of topics.

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In July of 1925, WOAl increased its paver from 500 watts to 1000 watts and declared their first cOl\Ullercially sponsored program

Which aired an orchestra playing typical Mexican melodies. In 1926 another increase was made to 2000 watts and the requests continued

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