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The first non-commercial radio station in West Virginia, WMUL-FM at Marshall University, began broadcasting
WHD at West Virginia University received the state's first radio station license on March 16, 1922. The year before, KDKA of Pittsburgh, since 1920 the nation's first commercially licensed station, had broadcast the first college football game on ...
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