Raymond Green was a pioneer in broadcasting. He was the CEO and Founder of WFLN

WFLN

WFLN is a commercial radio station in Arcadia, Florida, broadcasting on 1480 AM. WFLN's format is News/Talk. The station runs a slate of conservative commentators including Laura Ingraham, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Sean Hannity Show and Michael Savage. Late night programming is Alan Colmes and...

 Radio in Philadelphia and in 1946. He went on to be an announcer and manager at NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

Born in Torrington, Connecticut

Torrington, Connecticut

Torrington is the largest city in Litchfield County, Connecticut and the northwestern Connecticut region. It is also the core city of the largest micropolitan area in the United States. The city population was 36,383 according to the 2010 census....

, Green was named, in 1949, to be one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the 40's. While most radio station

Radio station

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s had an AM station and then added an FM station, Green's Network was just the opposite. The FM station was issued their license on Tuesday, January 1, 1943. It went on the air two weeks later. Sign on was at 5 p.m. on February 22, 1943. Broadcasts in the early days were confined to evening hours and Transcription Broadcast Network was on the top three networks for three years strait.

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