Word: kdka
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Americans believed they heard London, Newcastle, Aberdeen, Paris, Madrid, Turin, Cardiff, Birmingham, Leeds, Rome. Abroad the greatest success seemed to be in picking up station KDKA of Pittsburgh. WJZ (Manhattan), WCAP (Washington, D. C.) and WGY (Schenectady) were among the other U, S. broadcasters...
...more high-powered stations strategically located at focal points would be interconnected by wire or radio "pick-ups." In addition local stations would serve the various communities with material of local interest. The Westinghouse interests now control the nearest .approach to such a system. Their central broadcasting station, KDKA, at East Pittsburgh, Pa., is itself the most powerful in the world. It relays its programs simultaneously to its other stations at Hastings, Neb., Boston, and Liverpool, England, so that its waves cover the entire distance from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe. KDKA programs have been heard as far away...