from 440.com
RADIO DAY 10/27/07
Marconi, Fessenden, and De Forest were the catalysts. However, it
was an engineer for Westinghouse Electric who, in 1916, was broadcasting music
from his garage (in Wilkinsburg, PA, a suburb of Pittsburgh) over a wireless
(amateur radio station 8XK) who really got the whole thing started. A newspaper
article about the broadcasts caused such interest that the head honchos at
Westinghouse decided to build a real radio station.
It took until this day in 1920 for the Westinghouse radio station to receive
a license to broadcast. The license for KDKA, Pittsburgh came from the U.S.
Department of Commerce. Although the license was officially issued on this day,
KDKA did not start their broadcast operations for a week (they had to wait
until the license was posted in the station). On November 2, 1920, the station
aired the returns of the Harding/Cox election ... the first radio programming
to reach an audience of any size ... approximately 1,000 people.
And so we salute this day as the official birthday of mass-appeal radio.
More KDKA info:
http://www.hammondmuseumofradio.org/kdka.html
Curt Phillips, CEM
W4CP ex-KD4YU; WB4LHI
ARRL Life; QCWA; SKCC; NASWA
Tar Heel Scanner/SWL Group
WMPM AM1270- Coffeetime Sat. Mornings
Raleigh, NC
w4cp<at>arrl.net
--
Success is never final, failure is never fatal, courage is all that matters.
-Winston Churchill
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