WEED Records, . 1932-1970

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WEED Records, . 1932-1970

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WEED was a general entertainment radio station established in 1933 by William Avera Wynne (born 1903) in Greenville, N.C. The collection includes office correspondence and other files of WEED radio station, Rocky Mount, Nash County, N.C., and scattered files of WBAR, Bartow, Fla. Both stations were owned by William Avera Wynne. The WEED files include program logs, channel surveys, and communications with the Federal Communications Commission, and both the NBC and ABC radio network offices.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6629560

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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WEED (Radio station : Rocky Mount, N.C.)

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WEED was a general entertainment radio station established in 1933 by William Avera Wynne (born 1903) in Greenville, N.C. The station was relocated to Rocky Mount, Nash County, N.C., in 1934. In 1940 it affiliated with the National Broadcasting Company's (NBC) Blue Network which became the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in 1945. In 1948 an FM station (WEED-FM) was added. William Avera Wynne was also involved in the creation of WBAR radio station in Bartow, Fla., in ...