We've all driven on, or past radio Avenue, or Radio Drive. There are easily a hundred streets named "Transmitter" Road. They're usually tucked up in the hills, right below the tower farm, but it's a real road. What is less common is the naming of an entire town after radio. This has happened only four times in the United States.The United States has 5 places with Radio in their name:
Radio Junction, Texas ...on route 90 near Copperas
Radio Springs, Georgia ...just outside Rome I drove through it last year.
Radioville, Indiana ...Rte 421 south of Valparasio*
Radioville, Puerto Rico ...? near Arecibo I am told.
Radio Range Park, Ohio ...so its a tower farm, but somebody incorporated it near Hamilton Ohio for some reason. Home of WHSS the most organized high school radio station in America. It's run by GM Dave Spurrier a great american and long time radio man. http://www.895whss.com/
*Incidently radioville was 1. a website about pittsburgh radio and also an advertising company in the UK. These four things are all unrelated.
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From Radioville Indiana, it wasn't always recognized, but a ham radio operator came to do his thing and try to contact Radioville Jamaica when I was a teen, and some one wrote an article or book about Radioville and dubbed my Grandfather Raymond "Bud" Schroeder the Mayor of Radioville because he owned the only business in town a bowling alley. It was the first place in the US to have a radio tower apparently. Andrea Chesak
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