VOWR broadcasts from studios located in Wesley United Church in St. John’s, NL. The stations’ first broadcast occurred on July 20, 1924, when Newfoundland was a country onto itself and some 25 years before confederation with Canada.
The founder of VOWR was the Referend Dr. J.G. Joyce, Minister at Wesley United Church (then Wesley Methodist Church) from 1922 until 1930. Reverend Joyce was a native Newfoundlander, born in Carbonear, Newfoundland in 1889.
The station had its inaugural broadcast in July, 1924, just 23 years after Marconi received the first wireless signal at historic Signal Hill, located adjacent to the mouth of St. John’s Harbour.
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