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KZKZ (Philippines)
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KZKZ (729 kHz AM) was the second radio station in the Philippines. It began
broadcasting in 1922 and was founded by Henry Hermann, the owner of the Electrical
Supply Company in Manila. The station was upgraded in 1924 to a 100-watt station
and its call letters KZKZ were adopted. Later that year, the station was sold to
the Radio Corporation of the Philippines.[1]
KZKZ
City
Manila, The Philippines
Branding
KZKZ
Frequency
729 kHz AM
First air date
June 1922
Last air date
1924
Format
Silent
Power
five-watt transmitter (1922-1924), 100-watt transmitter (1924)
Owner
Henry Hermann (1922-1924)
Radio Corporation of the Philippines
The first radio broadcast in the Philippines was made in 1922 from Nichols air
field by using a five-watt transmitter.
In 1926, the organization began work on constructing two of the largest radio
stations in Asia with the idea of maintaining direct Manila-San Francisco service.
[2]
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George H. Hermann
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George H. Hermann (6 August 1843 – 21 October 1914) was an entrepreneur based in
Houston, Texas. He served the Confederacy in the American Civil War. He was a
dealer in wood products and cattle. He invested in real estate and was an early
investor in oilfields around Humble, Texas, which led to a financial windfall from
a rich oil strike. He donated most of his estate to the public upon his death,
including land for the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and Hermann Park. Land and other
assets funded the Hermann Hospital Foundation.
George H. Hermann
Born
George Henry Hermann
6 August 1843
Houston
Died
21 October 1914
St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
Cause of death
Stomach cancer
Resting place
Glenwood Cemetery, Houston
Residence
Houston, Texas
Occupation
Lumberman, cattleman, oilman
Known for
Philanthropy
Net worth
$2.6 million USD
Spouse(s)
none
Children
none
Parent(s)
John Herman, Fannie (Mitchell) Hermann
Early life
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George Henry Hermann was born on 6 August 1843 to John and Fannie (Mitchell)
Hermann in Houston.[1] Both parents were natives of Davos, Switzerland. His father
fought in the Battle of Waterloo and traveled to the United States before marrying.
John and Fannie traveled to the United States and Mexico before settling in Houston
in 1838. John worked as a baker and in the dairy business while accumulating real
estate along the way. George was one of seven children, though the only one who
survived his youth.[2]
Career
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While still a teenager, Hermann enlisted with a Confederate Cavalry company and
served in that unit through most of the Civil War. After the war, he engaged in the
cattle and real estate businesses, while selling firewood and lumber.[1]
Death and legacy
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Hermann died on 21 October 1914 in Baltimore. He was interred at Glenwood Cemetery
in Houston.[1] Hermann’s greatest legacy endures in two Houston institutions:
Hermann Park and Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center.[citation
needed]
Hermann bequeathed an estate valued at $2.6 million to establish a hospital. The
Herman Hospital Foundation generated income from the sale of Hermann’s real estate
and from retaining the mineral rights to those lands.[3] The Hermann estate also
gifted land for the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.[4]
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History of Philippine Radio
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Nichols Field (now Villamor Airbase) – First Test Broadcast Originated Here
The First Radio Station in the Philippines
There is a debate on what exactly was the first radio station in the country. In
1924 an American established the first AM radio station KZKZ.
But an archive of radio broadcast histories revealed that in 1922, an American
woman named Mrs. Redgrave made a test broadcast using a five-watt transmitter.
While little is known about Redgrave’s experiment, it is believed that the test
broadcast made from Nichols field (now Villamor Airbase) could be the very first
radio station in the Pearl of the Orient.
First Radio Network
Henry Hermann, founder of the Electrical Supply Company (Manila) gained permission,
possibly from local government and the military to operate more than one station.
The test broadcasts delivered music over the air to wealthy residents who owned
radio receivers.
This network of test broadcasts, however, was summed up into one 100-watt powered
AM station bearing the call letters KZKZ on 729 kHz.
Radio Corporation of the Philippines (RCP) later bought KZKZ in October 1924.
RCP expanded in Cebu putting up KZRC (Radio Cebu) in 1929, which is now DYRC.
Branded Radio Programs
All radio programs back in the day were English. They resemble pretty much like
those radio shows heard from the continental US. In fact, the sponsorships were
also patterned after famous American radio programs like the Listerine Amateur Hour
or the Klim Musical Quiz.
Before KBP
Radio stations back then were not regulated until the year 1931. The Radio Control
Board was instigated under the US colonial government. The regulating agency took
care of the license applications and frequency allocation.
KBP came only in April 7, 1973.
Call Letters from K to D
KZ was used because the Philippines was then a colony of America. All call letters
of radio stations in the US starter either with K or W.
Francisco Koko Trinidad, known as the father of Philippine Broadcasting attended
the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in 1947, held in Atlantic City in
the US.
Trinidad proposed to use RP instead of KZ. But this was denied by the ITU and gave
the letter D as a replacement to KZ.
“D” Was Originally for German Stations
Professor Elizabeth Enriquez of UP Manila, on her research, explained why
Philippine radio station call letters start with “D” and why it actually meant
Deutscheland, or the German name of Germany.
Trinidad remembers insisting on changing the first two call letters of Philippine
radio to RP, to stand for Republic of the Philippines, in lieu of the American KZ.
Koko wanted the world to know about the newly independent republic through the
radio call letters. The ITU rejected the call letters RP because of the amount of
trouble it would take to secure the approval of the entire international body, and
the international changes that might have become necessary for such a change.
However, the ITU, which decided to punish Germany for using radio for propaganda
and to advance the cause of Nazism, deprived Germany of its right to use the
broadcast airwaves. The ITU then gave the Philippines the right to use the call
letter D (which had stood for Deutscheland, or the German name of Germany)
From http://www.oldradio.com/archives/international/philippines.html
So much has happened to the Philippine Radio industry since that historic 1922 test
broadcast in Nichols field. According to a historian, the Philippines was the first
Asian country to operate a radio station, ahead of China and even New Zealand.
AM Radio stations used to be in English, now all announcers speak vernacular. The
FM band, once dominated by American-sounding radio formats, are now favoring local
sounds.
American roots and a Deutsch call letter, yet little is left of these foreign
influences.
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Today in Philippine History, October 10, 1915, Francisco “Koko” Trinidad, father of
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Monday October 10, 2011 (7 years ago)
On October 10, 1915, Francisco “Koko” Trinidad, "father of Philippine Radio", who
greatly contributed to the education and professional life of media practitioners,
was born.
In government service from 1947 to 1970 where he retired as general manager of the
Philippine Broadcasting Service (PBS), Trinidad pioneered the distance learning
method, or the use of radio broadcast for education purposes.
Today in Philippine History, October 10, 1915, Francisco “Koko” Trinidad, father of
Philippine Radio, was born
He used his station to air instructional programs for the classroom nationwide in
cooperation with the Bureau of Public Schools and one of his stations also aired
the proceedings of Congress and the Senate. It also aired farm programs on some
radio stations and entered into regular program of exchange cultural programs with
countries in the Asian Region.
His program concentrated on public service and educational shows which he patterned
after the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
As greatly concerned to the education and professional life of media practitioners,
Trinidad joined the faculty of the University of the Philippines, in between 1970
to 1980 where he helped developed new breed of broadcasters.
Prior to that, after high school, Trinidad worked at the Far Eastern Broadcasting
Company as announcer and program arranger; promoted to chief of program arrangers;
and later appointed as production coordinator. He became production manager after
sometime.
During World War II, he became a director of stage presentations at the Avenue,
Lyric, and Strand Theatres.
After the war, he served his country as producer- announcer for the U.S. Office of
War Information and Program Director for the U.S. Information Service from 1945-47.
He also held key positions which include: Secretary-General of the UNESCO National
Commission of the Philippines (UNAMCOM) in 1986 for which he retired in 1990;
program director of Radio Veritas Asia (International Service).
Koko Trinidad was married to the writer of the hit radio drama "Gulong ng Palad",
Carolina Flores (popularly known as Lina Flor). They were blessed with 4 children.
Koko died on January 21, 2001 at the age of 85.
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This radio controlled airplane is carrying a scale model of Lockheed Martin X-33
and is taking part in NASA research.
Radio control (often abbreviated to R/C or simply RC) is the use of radio signals
to remotely control a device. Radio control is used for control of model vehicles
from a hand-held radio transmitter. Industrial, military, and scientific research
organizations make use of radio-controlled vehicles as well.
History
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In 1898, Tesla demonstrated a radio-controlled boat (U.S. Patent 613,809 —Method of
an Apparatus for Controlling Mechanism of Moving Vehicle or Vehicles).
In 1894, the first example of wirelessly controlling at a distance was during a
demonstration by the British physicist Oliver Lodge, in which he made use of a
Édouard Branly's coherer to make a mirror galvanometer move a beam of light when an
electromagnetic wave was artificially generated. This was further refined by
Guglielmo Marconi and William Preece, at a demonstration that took place on
December 12, 1896, at Toynbee Hall in London, in which they made a bell ring by
pushing a button in a box that was not connected by any wires.
In 1897 a British engineer Ernest Wilson had invented a torpedo that was controlled
by "Hertzian" waves.[citation needed]
In 1898, at an exhibition at Madison Square Garden, Nikola Tesla demonstrated a
small unmanned boat that used a coherer based radio control. In a bit of
showmanship, Tesla entertained the audience to make it seem that the boat could
apparently obey commands from the audience but it was, in fact, controlled by Tesla
interpreting the verbal requests and sending appropriate frequencies to tuned
circuits in the boat.[1] Tesla was granted a US patent on this invention on July 1,
1898.[2] In 1903, the Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres y Quevedo presented the
"Telekino" at the Paris Academy of Science, and was granted a patent in France,
Spain, Great Britain and the United States.[3] In 1904, Bat, a Windermere steam
launch, was controlled using experimental radio control by its inventor, [Jack
Kitchen].
In 1909 the French inventor Gabet demonstrated what he called his "Torpille Radio-
Automatique", a radio-controlled torpedo.[4] In 1917, Archibald Low as head of the
RFC Experimental Works, was the first person to use radio control successfully on
an aircraft.
Black-and-white picture of a cabin. In a corner, intricate apparatus is mounted on
a wall above a desk
Radio control gear invented by John Hays Hammond, Jr. installed in the battleship
USS Iowa (1922)
During World War I American inventor John Hays Hammond, Jr. developed many
techniques used in subsequent radio control including developing remote controlled
torpedoes, ships, anti-jamming system's and even a system allowing his remote-
controlled ship targeting an enemy ship's searchlights.[5] In 1922 he installed
radio control gear on the obsolete US Navy battleship USS Iowa so it could be used
as a target ship[6] (sunk in gunnery exercise in March 1923).
The Soviet Red Army used remotely controlled teletanks during the 1930s in the
Winter War against Finland and fielded at least two teletank battalions at the
beginning of the Great Patriotic War. A teletank is controlled by radio from a
control tank at a distance of 500–1,500 m, the two constituting a telemechanical
group. There were also remotely controlled cutters and experimental remotely
controlled planes in the Red Army. In the 1930s, the United Kingdom developed the
radio-controlled Queen Bee, a remotely controlled unmanned Tiger Moth aircraft for
a fleet's gunnery firing practice. The Queen Bee was superseded by the similarly
named Queen Wasp, a purpose-built, target aircraft of higher performance.
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