Abstract

Founded by Walter S. Lemmon on June 26, 1931, international radio station WRUL originally had the call letters W1XAL. On December 2, 1934, the stat ion began broadcasting World Radio University programs produced by the World Wide Broadcasting Foundation, a non-profit, educational foundation funded by Mr. Lemmon and the Rockefeller Foundation.

On September 7, 1939, the calI letters were changed to WRUL. Two days later the transmitters and antennas were moved f rom Boston to Scituate, Massachusetts. Control of the station was taken by the United States government on November 4, 1942. During World War II, WRUL was operated by Mr. Lemmon with programming furnished by the government.

Returned to private use on February 27, 1947, WRUL broadcast its first sponsored program in November, 1950, and from then was operated as a commercial station. Control of the station was relinquished by Walter S. Lemmon on October 5, 1960, when he sold WRUL to the Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation.

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