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The Radio Wars: The 500,000W Ghost Station, WLW & America's Loudest Secret | Sleep Story
Tonight's episode of Sleepless History carries you into the strangest chapter of American radio history: the true story of WLW, the Cincinnati station that once broadcast at 500,000 watts, ten times the power the government allowed anyone else. Farmers near the transmitter heard the station humming through their bedsprings. Neon signs lit themselves in dark farmhouses. A man's bare hand reportedly glowed holding a lightbulb near the tower.
Narrated slowly over gentle rain sounds and designed to help you fall asleep, this episode traces the full arc of the story: the Press-Radio War that…
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