Shown here on this day’s issue of Radio Digest ninety years ago, June 15, 1926, is Miss Fredda Josephine Brown, who was heard over the airwaves of who was heard over the airwaves of WDAF, Kansas City, Missouri.  The magazine noted that her beauty was equalled only by her versatility, since she was accomplished as a violinist and pianist, and also gave readings over the station. She was apparently still in high school at the time, since she  graduated in 1927 from Westport High School in Kansas City, which closed in 2010.

The station, “The Kansas City Star” signed on originally as experimental station 9XAB in 1922 at 833 kHz, and assumed the WDAF call letters later that year. It moved around the dial in the 1920’s, making appearances at 750, 730, 680, 820, and 810 kHz. According to the magazine, its wavelength in 1926 was 365.6 meters, or 820 kHz. In 1928, it moved to 610 kHz, where it was an affiliate of NBC.

In 2003, the station changed to a sports format and changed its call letters to KCSP. The original call letters are still used on FM and TV.

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