After several decades of being the battlefield where the Kingdom of Castile and the Crown of Aragón clashed, Alicante became a major Mediterranean trading station exporting rice, wine, olive oil, oranges and wool.

It was founded by the Carthaginians as a trading station, and after a period of decline became under the Romans one of the more important towns in the province of Hispania Baetica.

Marconi's station at Marconi Towers, on the outskirts of Glace Bay, became the chief communication center for the Royal Canadian Navy in World War I through to the early years of World War II.

As in other theatrical works of the time and place, the characters in Goldoni's Italian comedies spoke originally either the literary Tuscan variety ( which became modern Italian ) or the Venetian dialect, depending on their station in life.

In 1927, Christopher Stone became the first radio announcer and programmer in the United Kingdom, on the BBC radio station.

After 1924, Ellis Island became primarily a detention and deportation processing station.

Powers became an airborne traffic reporter for radio station KGIL Los Angeles.

By the 1960s, the Hammond became popular with pop groups and was used on the British pirate station Radio 390.

A terminus of the first German long distance railway to Dresden ( the capital of Saxony ) in 1839, Leipzig became a hub of Central European railway traffic, with Leipzig Central Station the largest terminal station by area in Europe.

In the course of the next three and a half years he oversaw the construction of a radio station in Saratov to connect the Volga area with Moscow, graduated from Petrograd University, became deputy leader of the new Military Radiotechnical Laboratory in Moscow, and finished as the broadcast supervisor of the radio transmitter at Tsarskoye Selo near Petrograd ( then renamed Detskoye Selo ).

Burial Hill ( now Flagstaff railway station ) became its home ground in January 1839, however, the area was already set aside for Botanical Gardens and the club was moved on in October 1846, to an area on the south bank of the Yarra about where the Herald and Weekly Times building is today.

The Bend became an important transfer and rest station along the route.

This practice started in 1950, with the initiation of broadcasts the Day of Arafa, and increased until 1957, at which time Radio Makka became the most powerful station in the Middle East at 50 kW.

The Los Angeles station eventually became KTLA, the first commercial station on the West Coast.

The Chicago station got a commercial license as WBKB in 1943, but was sold to UPT along with Balaban & Katz in 1948, resold to CBS, and eventually became WBBM-TV.

Consequently Potsdamer Platz S-Bahn station became the most infamous of several Geisterbahnhofe ( ghost stations ), its previously-bustling platforms now decrepit and sealed off from the outside world, patrolled by armed guards and through which trains ran without stopping.

In 1972, he became a Top 40 music disc jockey on WIXZ, a small AM radio station that reached much of the Pittsburgh area.

In March 2006, WBAL in Baltimore became the first major market radio station in the country to drop Limbaugh's nationally syndicated radio program.

The Scotland Yard entrance became the public entrance to the police station.

Recently virtual providers became active in the Slovak market, the most notable of them being Tesco Mobile ( associated with Tesco Stores ) and FunFón ( a virtual operator associated with a popular FM radio station ).

) In 1967, CLT of Lebanon became the third television station in the world after the Soviet Union and France to broadcast in color, utilizing the French SECAM technology.

This became the Goonhilly satellite earth station, now owned by BT Group plc.

The first incarnation of what became Triple J was established in September 1974 as the AM-band radio station 2JJ or Double Jay.

The San Diego campus was founded as a marine station in 1912 and became UCSD in 1959.

international: 3 fiber optic submarine cables ( 2 to St. Kitts and 1 to Guadeloupe ); satellite earth station – 1 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean )

country code-55 ; landing point for a number of submarine cables, including Atlantis 2, that provide direct links to South and Central America, the Caribbean, the US, Africa, and Europe ; satellite earth stations-3 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean ), 1 Inmarsat ( Atlantic Ocean region east ), connected by microwave relay system to Mercosur Brazilsat B3 satellite earth station ( 2007 )

International: country code – 226 ; satellite earth station – 1 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean ) ( 2007 )

As of 2008, there was one satellite earth station, operated by Intelsat in the Indian Ocean.

The current fixed-lines outside Bangui are transmitted through a DOMSAT network installed in the early 1990s as a star formation around the Bangui satellite earth station ( 1 Intelsat ).

An automatic weather installation was completed on April 7, 1980, with data collected by this station being transmitted directly by satellite to Brittany.

Although no cable company released data as to what such a monitoring service would cost, the end-result was that no cable company elected to carry the station, either, leaving many Arabic-speaking Canadians using free-to-air satellite dishes to watch the station.

In addition to Egyptian programming, the Middle East Broadcast Company, a Saudi television station transmitting from London ( MBC ), Arab Radio and Television ( ART ), Al-Jazeera television, and other Gulf stations as well as Western networks such as CNN and BBC, provide access to more international programs to Egyptians who own satellite receivers.

Country code – 358 ; 1 submarine cable ( Finland Estonia Connection ); satellite earth stations – access to Intelsat transmission service via a Swedish satellite earth station, 1 Inmarsat ( Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions ); note – Finland shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Nordic countries ( Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden ).

Cable and Wireless, who provided international circuits installed a satellite earth station which made International Subscriber Dialling possible.

Owned by BT Group plc, it was at one time the largest satellite earth station in the world, with more than 25 communications dishes in use and over 60 in total.

On 12 September 2006, BT announced it would shut down satellite operations at Goonhilly in 2008, and move them to Madley Communications Centre in Herefordshire, making that centre BT's only earth station and the biggest in the world.

Hezbollah operates a satellite television station, Al-Manar TV (" the Lighthouse ") and a radio station al-Nour (" the Light ").

The islands were wired with 13 outgoing and 10 incoming commercial telephone lines, a 60-channel submarine cable, 22 DSN circuits by satellite, an Autodin with standard remote terminal, a digital telephone switch, the Military Affiliated Radio System ( MARS station ), a UHF / VHF air-ground radio, and a link to the Pacific Consolidated Telecommunications Network ( PCTN ) satellite.

There is also a French satellite tracking station.

* Libya TV-aka Libya al-Ahrar ; Qatar-based satellite station, launched in April 2011.

In 1987, a second standard B earth station and a domestic satellite network were installed with Rodrigues and the Outer Islands.

Includes a closing scene set on a station on Mars ' satellite Phobos.