Word: kdka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Harry Phillips Davis. 63. "father of radio telephone broadcasting.'' founder of station KDKA in Pittsburgh which sent out the Harding-Cox election returns in 1920 in the world's first public broadcast: board chairman of National Broadcasting Co. since its founding, vice president of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.; of the effects of a recent operation; in Wilkinsburg...
First national radio broadcast ever heard by the U. S. public was on the evening of Nov. 2, 1920. The station: KDKA at East Pittsburgh, Pa., owned and operated by Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. The program: that day's election returns, which put Warren Gamaliel Harding into the White House...
Last week, as a tenth anniversary present for the first U. S. broadcasting station, the Allegheny County Commissioners recommended and the courts approved the name of KDKA Boulevard for a new county highway running from Pittsburgh to Saxonburg, where is KDKA's new transmission station...
...boards, he has been president of its board of Christian education. In Presbyterian theology neither the Liberal nor Conservative groups can claim him. He is a congenial "middle-of-the-roader." The last two years he gained reputation outside his denomination by daily radio talks over Westinghouse's station KDKA, including midnight addresses to Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and other explorers...