{"id":771173,"date":"2026-05-03T21:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/771173\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T21:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:20:18","slug":"womt-continues-celebration-of-100-years-with-local-radio-collector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/771173\/","title":{"rendered":"WOMT Continues Celebration Of 100 Years With Local Radio Collector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/womt-100-steve-kanter-radio-display-at-the-manitowoc-public-library-2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"WOMT Continues Celebration Of 100 Years With Local Radio Collector\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Residents still interested in seeing a display recognizing 100 years of WOMT radio still have a chance.<\/p>\n<p>WOMT 100 and Radio Collector Steve Kanter have teamed up with the Manitowoc Public Library (MPL) to present a rare exhibition of radios spanning decades to the community.<\/p>\n<p>MPL Program Coordinator Tim Gadzinski says Seehafer Broadcasting Vice President Terry Stevenson reached out to him a year earlier to ask if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manitowoclibrary.org\/event\/womt-100th-anniversary-exhibition-24167\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WOMT 100: A Century of Live Local Radio in Manitowoc<\/a> would be possible.<\/p>\n<p>He calls it a natural fit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeehafer Broadcasting period is such a great community partner for the library,\u201d he noted. \u201cAnd it\u2019s great to celebrate something like this. As I dug into it, finding out how much on the forefront of radio we were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gadzinski says he hadn\u2019t met Kanter before the display was created, but called it the most organized and quickest setup he\u2019s seen at the library.<\/p>\n<p>He calls all the radios fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything from the super-cool art-deco transiter radios to the bigger old-school horn speaker radios,\u201d he described. \u201cWhat I like is that they are semi-ominous, like in a steam punk sort of way. But just so cool to look at.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Gadzinski noted that the display has gotten great reviews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are taken by how much thought, craftsmanship, and beauty went into just everyday objects,\u201d he stated. \u201cEveryone loves it, I mean everyone who\u2019s seen it so far had nothing but positive things to say.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>WOMT 100: A Century of Live Local Radio in Manitowoc can be found on the main floor just as you enter the library.<\/p>\n<p>WOMT first broadcast in 1926 from the Mikadow Theater on Washington Street.<\/p>\n<p>It is also one of the oldest radio stations in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents still interested in seeing a display recognizing 100 years of WOMT radio still have a chance. WOMT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":771174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[29],"tags":[44431,36643,171,2879,3723,425,121149,975,50,593,145364,290,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-771173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-births","tag-broadcasting","tag-entertainment","tag-events","tag-free","tag-local","tag-manitowoc","tag-music","tag-news","tag-obituaries","tag-seehafer","tag-state","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116512740519016099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}