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 This is the first radio schedule I've copied for this decade. With the lack of stations and full time schedules it was actually possible to pick up radio stations from far away. In radio terms, this is known as DX-ing.

The newspaper helped out by printing a list of available stations.

In that era, stations were more commonly known by their wavelength rather than frequency in kilocycles. Thus, the newspaper printed each station's wavelength.

In preparing this list for this website I converted the wavelengths into the more familiar frequency.

In answer to your first question: the term "kilocycles" was replaced by "kiloHertz." "Megacycles" became "megaHertz."

(The following is from "See/Hear: An Introduction to Broadcasting" by Lynne S. Gross.)

Heinrich Hertz was a physics professor in Germany during the 1880's. Hertz set out to prove a theory on electromagnetism by James Clark Maxwell, a physics professor at Cambridge University. The 1873 paper titled, "Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism" predicted the existence of radio waves and how they should behave based on his observations of how light waves behave.

Hertz actually generated and transmiited from one end of his laboratory to the other proving Maxwell's theory that variations in electrical current could be projected into space as radio waves similar to light waves.

Hertz wrote the 1888 paper, "Electro-magnetic Waves and their Reflections," served as a basis for the theory of modern radio transmissions.
KFAD Phoenix 383.6 meters (780 kc)
7 to 8 a.m. - Setting up exercises and inspirational talk.
8 to 8:05 a.m. - Financial talk.
8:05 to 9 a.m. - Newscasting and music.
9 to 10 a.m. - High school band program.
10 to 11 a.m. - Announcements and musical program.
---11 a.m. to 7 p.m. no listings. --- Unclear if 10 a.m. program continues all day.

7 to 8 p.m. - Dinner hour. (unclear if this is a musical program, or hour of silence so station personnel can eat. I guess you had to be there!)

8 to 9 p.m. Special program.
9 to 9:30 p.m. Flying instructions.
9:30 to 10 p.m. Studio program.
10 to 11 p.m. Dance program.

KOY Phoenix 228.9 meters (1310 kc)
7:30 to 8 a.m. Breakfast program.
8 to 8:30 a.m. World Book Man
8:30 to 9 a.m. Evangelistic service.
---9 a.m. to 4 p.m. no listings --- probably no programming.

4 to 4:30 p.m. Housekeeping chat.
---4:30 to 8:30 p.m. no listings ---

8:30 to 9 p.m. Talks and recordings.
9 to 9:15 p.m. Amos and Andy.
9:15 to 10:15 p.m. Dance program.

KFI Los Angeles 468.5 meters (640 kc)
5 to 11 p.m. - Studio and musical program.

KHJ Los Angeles 333.1 meters (900 kc)
5:15 to 11 p.m. - Concert orchestra, studio program.

KNX Hollywood 285.5 meters (1050 kc)
5:25 to 10:30 p.m. - Feature program.

KFWB Hollywood 315.6 meters (950 kc)
7:30 to 10 p.m. - Mixed musical and studio program.

 KPLA Los Angeles 526 meters (570 kc)
6:30 to 10 p.m. - Mixed musical program.

KMTR Hollywood 526 meters (570 kc)
7:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. - Studio and musical program.

KTM Santa Monica 384.4 meters (780 kc)
9 to 11 p.m. - Varied programs.

KFOX Long Beach 239.9 meters (1250 kc)
5:30 p.m. to Midnight - Mixed musical and studio programs.

KFSD San Diego 499.7 meters (600 kc)
7 p.m. to 12 midnight - feature musical program.

KFC San Francisco 440.9 meters (680 kc)
5:30 to 10 p.m. - Varied programs.

KFRC San Francisco 491.5 meters (610 kc)
5 to 9 p.m. - Studio and musical programs.

KGO Oakland 379.5 meters (790 kc)
6 p.m. to 12 midnight - Studio and musical programs.

KOA Denver 361.2 meters (830 kc)
6 to 11 p.m. - Mixed musical program.

WOC Davenport Iowa 299.8 meters (1000 kc)
4:30 to 6 p.m. - Studio and musical programs.

KFAB Lincoln Nebr. 389.4 meters (770 kc)
5 to 9 p.m.- mixed musical programs.

WFAA Dallas 288.3 meters (1040 kc)
5 to 8:15 p.m. - Varied programs.

WBAP Fort Worth 374.8 meters (800 kc)
5 to 7 p.m. - Mixed msuical programs.

WSM Nashville 461.3 meters (650 kc)
5 to 8:30 p.m. - Mixed musical programs.

WOAI San Antonio Texas 252 meters (1190 kc)
5:30 to 8:30 p.m. - Studio and musical programs.