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Radio Excelsior

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Described as LR5 Radio Excelsior, formerly Radio Brusa, was among the stations that lasted from about 1935; a later user of the Maipú 555 building.

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  1. Radio Excelsior8 days agoDescribed as LR5 Radio Excelsior, formerly Radio Brusa, was among the stations that lasted from about 1935; a later user of the Maipú 555 building.
  2. Radio Argentina8 days agoOpen until 1997
  3. Radio Argentina8 days agoOpen from 1920-08-27
  4. Radio Argentina8 days agoDescribed as First broadcast on 27 August 1920 from the Teatro Coliseo by Susini and friends; became LOR Radio Argentina in 1925 and LR2 in 1934; closed in 1997.
  5. Max Glücksmann8 days agoDescribed as Impresario of the Gran Splendid (opened May 1919); the English article says he started the station in 1924.
  6. Radio Splendid8 days agoDescribed as The station began on 23 May 1923 on the building's first floor as 'Grand Splendid Theatre' and took its traditional name in 1929.
  7. Radio Splendid8 days agoDescribed as Santa Fe 1876 is how todotango writes the station's address.
  8. Radio Splendid8 days agoDescribed as Address conflict: es.wikipedia and a La Nación citation in en.wikipedia give Santa Fe 1860; todotango gives 1876 for the radio in the same building; the city's
  9. Radio Splendid8 days agoIn Recoleta
  10. Radio Municipal8 days agoDescribed as In 1935 Enrique Santos Discépolo's ensemble, with Héctor Varela, Lalo Scalise, Américo Caggiano and Aníbal Troilo, played on Radio Municipal and at several down
  11. Aníbal Troilo8 days agoPlayed in Radio Municipal
  12. Héctor Varela8 days agoPlayed in Radio Municipal
  13. Héctor Bates8 days agoDescribed as Héctor and Luis Bates's interview programme 'Tangos, autores e intérpretes' aired successively on Nacional (the later Belgrano), Stentor and Fénix and gave rise
  14. Rosita Quiroga8 days agoDescribed as Remembered that at the 1920s station that became Radio Belgrano (then called Nacional) artists were paid in cups of coffee.
  15. Radio El Mundo8 days agoDescribed as State broadcaster LRA from 6 July 1937 (first director Roberto Dupuy de Lôme Moreno); named Radio Nacional in 1957. Its main studio is Maipú 555, the building m
  16. Radio El Mundo8 days agoOpen from 1937-07-06
  17. Julio Jorge Nelson8 days agoPlayed in Radio Rivadavia
  18. Carlos Gardel8 days agoPlayed in Radio Rivadavia
  19. Radio Rivadavia8 days agoDescribed as On 5 March 1934 Gardel's guitarists Barbieri, Riverol and Vivas played from Rivadavia in the link-up with Splendid and NBC New York.
  20. Radio Rivadavia8 days agoDescribed as Tango singer Beba Bidart was in the cast of its morning show 'Rapidísimo' (from 1973); no tango orchestra is named on the page.
  21. Radio Rivadavia8 days agoDescribed as Founded 1928 by the furniture shop Muebles Díaz (Rafael Díaz) as L.O.K. Radio Muebles Díaz and taken over by the state the next year; broadcast from Arenales 24
  22. Radio Rivadavia8 days agoOpen from 1928
  23. Radio Rivadavia8 days agoIn Recoleta
  24. Radio Mitre8 days agoDescribed as Julio Jorge Nelson's Gardel programme 'El bronce que sonríe' moved from Radio Callao to Radio Mitre in 1944; his 'El éxito de cada orquesta' also passed Callao,
  25. Julio Jorge Nelson8 days agoPlayed in Radio Mitre
  26. Roberto Caló8 days agoDescribed as Hired by Jaime Yankelevich in 1935; over three years he played on Radio Porteña, then Radio Mitre, then Radio Belgrano.
  27. Roberto Caló8 days agoPlayed in Radio Mitre
  28. Radio Mitre8 days agoDescribed as Matinée de Juan Manuel, Radio Mitre's daily show of the early 1940s, was an almost unavoidable first step for young popular singers; Oscar Larroca sang there ab
  29. Oscar Larroca8 days agoPlayed in Radio Mitre
  30. Radio Mitre8 days agoDescribed as The English article dates the move to Mansilla 2668 to 1985, one year after the Spanish article's 1984.
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