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newspaper, combined it with the radio station and promoted Frank Hash, the editor of the newspaper, to be WTWA's manager. Hash then bought the newspaper and radio station in 1957. In 1962, Gene Harden, WTWA's longtime manager, bought the station from Hash.
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385:. Brown owned and operated
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366:the air on January 10, 1948
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435:1st National Bank News
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396:. WTWA was a Mutual
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542:References
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479:Frequency
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