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Site of World’s First Broadcasting Station

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On this corner stood the Garden City Bank Building, where Charles D. Herrold established Station FN, the first radio broadcasting station in the world. A pioneer in wireless telephony, or radio, Herrold established the first station in 1909 to transmit radio programs of music and news to a listening audience on a regular basis.
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