Word: kdka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until a year ago, when the Press undertook to control news broadcasting, all three Pittsburgh newspapers put news on the air. The Press (Scripps-Howard) worked through famed KDKA, first broadcasting station in the world; the Post-Gazette through WWSW; and Hearst's Sun-Telegraph through Hearst's WCAE. Then came the Press-Radio "truce" which forbade radio networks to give more than a smattering of news each day (TIME, Feb. 12). The Pittsburgh newspapers and their stations fell obediently into line...
When Pittsburgh's KDKA sent out the first U. S. broadcast in 1920, A. S. C. A. & P. was ready for Radio. After a few skirmishes, radio stations fell in line with other dispensers of music, began paying for A. S. C. A. & P. licenses...
...friends can listen on KDKA and part of the NBC network...
...University planning to be a doctor but he spent most of his time there getting up orchestras, playing for dances. He decided to go into vaudeville but it took his adopted, sandwich-like name to bring him luck. In 1922 he started plugging songs for a music publisher from KDKA, Pittsburgh's pioneer station. That year he wrote "Jealous," his first & biggest...
Some of the things you may have forgotten: Man Jong, Floyd Collins, the Boston Police strike, Coué, Jess Smith, Jane Gibson; the first radio station (KDKA, East Pittsburgh, Nov. 2, 1920), first bathing-beauty contest (Washington, D. C., 1921). A revolution in manners and morals accurately indicated by changing skirt-lengths had its beginning, middle and end in the last decade, says Author Allen. Advertising changed its key. "In 1919 the Listerine advertisement said simply: 'The prompt application of Listerine may prevent a minor accident from becoming a major infection,' whereas in 1929 it began a tragic...