Word: kdka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...