In the spring of 1925, Dudley Shaw decided to reduce KFJF’s interference problem by moving the transmitter from the Security Building in downtown Oklahoma City, to an outlying area of Oklahoma City. During this period, KFJF increased it’s power to 125 watts – reaching as far away as New Jersey, and claimed to have over 100,000 listeners! This was also a time when listeners began to complain about radio stations interfering with each other. During this time, the principal function of KFJF was to rebroadcast the programming of larger eastern stations.īy late 1924, there were an estimated 200,000 radio sets in use in Oklahoma. Dudley Shaw, an energetic business man and an excellent engineer, was KFJF’s creator. The southwestern giant was then only fifteen watts of power under the original call letters, KFJF. This article was amended on 21 October 2021 to remove wording not in accordance with the Guardian’s style guide.KOMA was born on Christmas Eve, 1922 in Oklahoma City. There was no way I was going to pay for a woman walking in a bus lane with a funny T-shirt on.” She added: “We’ve been laughing about it a lot. “Obviously no one had looked at the picture and it had been computer-generated.” “The fine had already gone up from £60 to £90 because we hadn’t paid within 30 days,” she told the Daily Mail. Paula Knight, also 54, said the council call handler “burst out laughing” when she alerted her to the error. The alleged offence took place in June but Knight, 54, did not receive the penalty notice until last month. Paula Knight, a bookkeeper, told the Daily Mail she contacted the council to alert officials to their mistake and they agreed to cancel the £90 fine.
The penalty charge notice, issued by Bath and North East Somerset council, includes a CCTV photo of Pulteney Bridge in Bath, where the alleged contravention took place.Ī second photo shows an image of a woman wearing a protective mask, handbag over her shoulder and T-shirt declaring “Knitter”. The private registration on his Volkswagen van is a nod to his nickname, Knighter. David Knight was baffled when he received a fine for driving in a bus lane in Bath – about 120 miles away from his home.īut the builder and his wife, Paula, who live in Dorking, Surrey, laughed when they examined the photographic evidence of their alleged infraction and saw a woman with the word “Knitter” on her T-shirt, which the computer had mixed up with Knight’s registration plate, KN19TER, the Daily Mail reported.
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