“Everything got shut off. This place had never been shut off in 50 years.” WEST CHESTER, Ohio (WXIX) – The Bethany Relay Station at the Voice of America Park is remembering the day its mission of transmitting broadcasts ended. The historic station was built in West Chester by radio p...
The Bethany Relay Station, operational from 1944 to 1994, was based on a 625-acre (2.53 km2) site in Union Township (now West Chester Township) in Butler County, Ohio, near Cincinnati.[111] Major transmitter upgrades first were undertaken around 1963, when shortwave and medium-wave transmitter...