By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostKFEQ celebrates 100 years on the air this week.To celebrate, we will run a series of stories on the rich history of the station each day this week.But, what does it mean for a radio station to celebrate its 100th birthday?"It is a remarkable achievement. In fact, I believe this is the first centennial that I'm aware of in radio stations that I know about, certainly here in the rural Midwest," retired Kansas State media professor Steve Smethers of Manhattan says, who adds a misperception is that broadcasting started in the East and moved westward."And KFEQ was likely one of those radio stations that was put on as an experiment," Smethers says. "It was probably put on with the idea that, gee, isn't it fun to play with radio without any kind of an idea of what it was going to be used for."Smethers, who also taught at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville and knows KFEQ well, says that in 1923 there was no for
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