Adventist Review, the official news publication of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's General Conference, records that H.M.S. Richards Sr. began broadcasting biblical messages on Los Angeles radio station KNX on 19 October 1929, that the program took the name Voice of Prophecy in January 1937 as it expanded over the Don Lee Broadcasting System, and that on Sunday, 4 January 1942, four weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, it reached listeners coast to coast for the first time over 89 stations of the Mutual Broadcasting System, opening with announcer Fordyce Detamore's greeting, Hello America.
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Reliability Tier1
The Seventh-day Adventist Church's own official news publication, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable institutional denominational news accounts, used here for the Voice of Prophecy's exact broadcast date and the stations that carried it, corroborated by Gary Land's academic reference history of the Church. Citation
PublisherAdventist Review
URLhttps://adventistreview.org/world/north-america/the-voice-of-prophecy-turns-95-years-old/
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This source names Americas directly: "Adventist Review, the official news publication of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's General Conference, records that H.M.S."
Source Voice of Prophecy Turns 95 Years Old (Adventist Review)
This source names Los Angeles directly: "began broadcasting biblical messages on Los Angeles radio station KNX on 19 October 1929, that the program took the name Voice of Prophecy in January 1937 as it expanded over the Don Lee..."
Source Voice of Prophecy Turns 95 Years Old (Adventist Review)
Claims Backed By This Source (15 claims)
This source backs 15 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. As cited relationships: 6 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Spread Events, 8 claims: 3 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 holds.
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