Word: kya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasant change was inaugurated by FCC, which relaxed one of its most cherished regulations, authorized San Francisco station KYA to use point-to-point transmission to dispatch the longshoremen. Point-to-point is a signal beamed directly at persons or places. FCC has hitherto forbidden broadcasters to use it because it invades the territory of telegraph, telephone and other communication companies...
...advisability of point-to-point appeared when the San Francisco telephone exchange, short of telephones and help, wanted to get rid of the longshoremen's telephone load (some 225 work gangs average 16 men apiece). Twice a day, for five minutes only, KYA now transmits such information as: "Gangs 15 and 75 report to pier...