Word: kdka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittsburgh. For seven years he sat behind the president's desk and sold coal, all the while frequently thinking back to the days when he sang over radio with a college trio. When his two brothers grew old enough to handle the coal business, Kennedy started humbly over KDKA in Pittsburgh, sang in a church choir...
...earliest and most successful . . .stations was KDKA at East Pittsburgh, Pa., owned by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company...
Nine radio devotees out of ten have doubtless heard or read somewhere that KDKA was the first regular broadcasting station in the U. S. Great, therefore, was their surprise one night last week when WWJ, operated by the Detroit News, splashed over the air a 16th anniversary program in which it claimed seniority over hoary KDKA...
...honor of being second . . . fell to KDKA of Pittsburgh . . . and, though it has erroneously claimed and been credited with priority among broadcasters, it is still entitled to a place of distinction. . . ." On Aug. 31, 1920, the Detroit station announced returns of the primary elections in Michigan. On Nov. 2, 1920, the Pittsburgh station broadcast returns of the Presidential election. Westinghouse then continued with semiweekly broadcasts, until Dec. i, 1920 when daily programs commenced. Neither of the rivals can claim priority except as a commercial station. Lee de Forest broadcast the voice of Enrico Caruso from the top of the Metropolitan...
...KDKA was by no means willing last week to let priority go to WWJ without a struggle. Stubbornly declared a Westinghouse spokesman: "Westinghouse, in starting radio station KDKA, developed the term 'broadcasting.'" Unable to get around the solid fact of the Detroit station's priority on the calendar, KDKA argued that it was operating under its present call letters 16 months before WWJ was assigned its present letters on March 3, 1922. Against this was WWJ's claim that it had received its third license (in October, 1921) before KDKA applied for its first. KDKA...