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Daily Outtakes: Post Office leaving , WCOA coming downtown

   February 1, 2024
coffee morning

We now have the official last day for the downtown Pensacola post office. It’s Friday, April 26. All services are moving to the East Hill Station, 3001 North Davis Highway.

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WCOA Celebrates 98 Years

We broadcast this morning from Trader Jon’s bar inside Pensacola History Museum.

In late 1925, Pensacola Mayor James Bayliss. City Commissioner Frank Sanders, City Clerk John Frenkel, Sr. and George Hendricks got the city to buy radio equipment from WOAI in San Antonio for $3,500. They assembled the equipment, procured a license in the city’s name and set up a studio on the second floor of Pensacola City Hall, which is now the Pensacola History Museum.

The studio contained a baby grand piano, phonograph and several stand-up microphones. A published schedule showed WCOA broadcast at 7 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, with weather reports daily at 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Church services aired 11 a.m. and 7:25 p.m. Sundays. Read more.

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