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...broadcast radio possible and salable, by consolidating electronics companies and freezing patent feuds. After the war, RCA wrested American Marconi from its British parents, exercised patent controls, and became, in effect, a commercial monopoly. Closed out of the RCA lode, Westinghouse established the first regular broadcast station, Pittsburgh's KDKA, and marketed the single-unit radio receiver it had developed for the army. Thus was a consumer market opened for radio equipment, and a listening audience for broadcasting...
...With KDKA setting an example, Secretary of Commerce Hoover was deluged by requests for broadcast licenses; what those licenses warranted was not yet considered. Hoover's responses effectively favored the companies able to afford powerful facilities. Stations owned by AT & T and RCA nudged smaller groups out of competition...
...Boston's WBZ, after Pittsburgh's KDKA, is the second oldest licensed station in America. Though its officials prefer the adult image of "contemporary popular music," WBZ's sound is largely rock 'n' roll. But with the cats and the caterwauling goes an aggressive news operation that recently won two United Press International awards, one for editorials criticizing the Massachusetts birth-control laws, the second for coverage of the power blackout in New England. For the privilege of broadcasting a one-minute commercial on Boston's most successful station in prime time, advertisers...
...furnaces and fires. For almost a week, residents breathed the polluted air. By the time fresh winds came to the rescue, half of them were ill, 20 had died. "It could happen again," was the point that a handful of experts recently made clear on Pittsburgh's KDKA...
...Deejay Rege Cordic of Pittsburgh's pioneer station KDKA hit upon the "ancient" sport of brick throwing. The contest was moved to a wharf jutting into the Allegheny River after the first contestant threw his brick 67 ft. 2 in., "smack into a tentful of boy scouts." In all, some 75 athletes heaved their bricks into the water. Record toss: 80 ft., give or take a yard or two. What was it all about? None of the brick heavers were quite sure. But Disk Jockey Cordic has a new hobby magazine coming out in the fall, to be called...