It was also the first presidential election to be covered on the radio, thanks to both 8ZZ ( later KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ) and 8MK ( later WWJ ) in Detroit, which carried the election returns, as did the educational and amateur radio station 1XE ( later WGI ) at Medford Hillside MA.

They also hired former KDKA / Pittsburgh program director Marshall Adams.

WPIT, the shortwave station operated by KDKA in Pittsburgh, also moved its transmitters to Hull at the same time, and in 1941 its operations were folded into WBOS, which soon afterward began carrying government-provided programming ( a service that ultimately evolved into the Voice of America ) that would remain the shortwave station's primary function until leaving the air permanently in 1953.

Frank Conrad of Westinghouse, who developed the first medium wave broadcast station, KDKA in Pittsburgh, also set up the first shortwave broadcasts, as early as 1921.

The Series was also the first to be broadcast on radio, with Grantland Rice covering the games live through KDKA ( which was rebroadcast on WBZ ).

KYW is currently the easternmost station in the United States whose callsign begins with the letter K. It is also one of three such stations in Pennsylvania, the other ones being KQV and sister station KDKA, both in Pittsburgh.

The tower on the roof also served as the broadcast antenna for radio station KDKA Pittsburgh.

The station also adopted the call sign KDKA-FM on February 15, 2010, to reflect the recent trend for CBS Radio all-sports stations in markets with a heritage CBS-owned station to have matching call signs, in this case KDKA-TV and the historic KDKA Radio.

In the fall of 1961 Rege Cordic, a KDKA ( Pittsburgh ) radio personality, produced a radio show based on the program.

For an ABC affiliate that is owned by a company that does not own a network, WTAE has the local rights to CBS Television Distribution's The Rachael Ray Show, ET, Oprah, and Inside Edition instead of CBS O & O KDKA, which is rare in several television markets where a network O & O would air shows produced by its sister company, since WTAE's parent company had made long-term contract deals for these programs before CBS took over syndication rights.

WBZ's initial license, for operation in Springfield, was issued by the Department of Commerce to the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company on September 15, 1921 ; it was the first license to specify broadcasts on 360 meters ( 833 kilohertz ), and was subsequently deemed to be the first license for a commercial broadcast station ( although other stations, such as 1XE / WGI in Medford Hillside and sister station KDKA in Pittsburgh, were already broadcasting under different license classifications ).

" Openly acknowledging that its CBS sister station KDKA in Pittsburgh claims to be the world's oldest radio station based on continuous operation since 1920 and being the first commercial station licensed by a governmental entity, KCBS instead claims to be the world's first such station, basing it on a historic succession of owners and callsign changes from 1909 to the present day.

There are exceptions to the east-west rule ( such as KDKA in Pittsburgh and WFAA in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas ); these are historical artifacts from a rule change in the 1930s, and most of the exceptions are located in the states immediately adjacent to the river.

By the 1950s, and continuing through the mid 1970s, many of the most powerful North American " clear channel " stations such as KDKA, WLW, CKLW, CHUM, WABC, WJR, WLS, WKBW, KFI, KAAY, KSL and a host of border blasters from Mexico pumped out Top 40 music played by popular disc jockeys.

It is sponsored by Westfield Insurance ( and previously by Giant Eagle ) and was hosted by KDKA news anchor Ken Rice from its inception in 2000 until the end of the 2010-11 season.

In 2006, the Game Show Network aired a documentary in their Anything to Win series about the scandal, complete with anecdotes from former WTAE and KDKA news anchor Don Cannon.

KDKA hired Milo Hamilton in December and distributed press kits at a news conference that had a cover sticker proclaiming, " The New Voice of the Pirates.

Miller's reports were distributed by telegraph and were printed by newspapers around the country and abroad, and the rescue attempts were followed by regular news bulletins on the new medium of broadcast radio ( the first broadcast radio station KDKA having been established in 1920 ).

* 1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station.

* 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.

** In the United States, KDKA AM of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ( owned by Westinghouse ) starts broadcasting as a commercial radio station.

** The first religious radio broadcast is heard over station KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

* August 5 – The first radio baseball game is broadcast ; Harold Arlin announces the Pirates-Phillies game from Forbes Field over Westinghouse KDKA, in Pittsburgh.

* October 5 – The first radio broadcast of a World Series baseball game was aired by Newark, NJ station WJZ ; Pittsburgh, PA station KDKA, and a group of other commercial and amateur stations throughout the eastern United States.

In November 1920, in Pittsburgh, Westinghouse launched " the world's first commercially licensed radio station ", KDKA.

A Rural Line on Education, a brief sketch specifically written for radio, aired on Pittsbugh's KDKA in 1921, according to historian Bill Jaker.

This was followed in 1920 with the first commercial radio station in the United States, KDKA, being established in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Denver, on various television / radio interviews ( The Pat Sajak Show ; KDKA radio ), said that " Gil Egan " was his choice.

The first licensed American radio station was started by Frank Conrad, KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The first transmission from pioneering radio station KDKA ( AM ) was made from East Pittsburgh on November 2, 1920.

In 1916, the world's first commercially licensed radio station, KDKA, began broadcasting here as experimental station 8XK from a small garage owned by Frank Conrad before it was launched with its current call letters on November 2, 1920.

In November 1920 KDKA radio, regarded as the world's first commercial radio station, began broadcasting from East Pittsburgh, PA, but later located its transmitter in neighboring Clinton Township.

The first licensed broadcast in the United States came from KDKA itself: the results of the Harding / Cox Presidential Election.

Some of the stations which were launched then, including WWJ in Detroit, KCBS in San Francisco and KDKA in Pittsburgh ( the first station specifically licensed for the purpose ) continue in daily 24-hour operation today under the ownership and management of CBS.

:* 26 November: First transatlantic relay broadcast from KDKA, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Pittsburgh, PA, station KDKA, owned by Westinghouse, received its license from the United States Department of Commerce just in time to broadcast the Harding-Cox presidential election returns.

Westinghouse Electric Company was responsible for being the primary sponsor, in 2010, for the 90th anniversary celebration of KDKA, a radio station licensed to Pittsburgh, launched by the original Westinghouse on November 2, 1920, that is now owned by CBS Radio.

* 1920: Westinghouse established modern broadcasting with station KDKA ; demonstrated television in laboratory.

The program of entertainment which included some of the stars of Broadway musical comedy and vaudeville was broadcast from the Newark, N. J. station WDY and the Pittsburgh station KDKA, both of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company.

Many stations, including WCAU and Pennsylvania's Group W stations KYW and KDKA, froze the action just prior to the gunfire.

Sizable amounts of soybean, coconut, and palm kernel oil -- seed oils that are produced primarily for food purposes -- also are used to make soaps, detergents, and paint resins.

Maize, tobacco, dried meat and cassava flour also began to be produced locally.

In the subsurface environment, it is also produced through neutron capture by or alpha emission by calcium.

Due to the firm's commercial success many pirated editions were also produced in Lyons and elsewhere.

He also paid close attention to his work quickly learning to distinguish the differing sounds the incoming telegraph signals produced and learned to translate signals by ear, without having to write them down and within a year was promoted as an operator.

La Longue Marche à travers la théorie de Galois Long March Through Galois Theory is an approximately 1600-page handwritten manuscript produced by Grothendieck during the years 1980 – 1981, containing many of the ideas leading to the Esquisse d ' un programme ( see below, and also a more detailed entry ), and in particular studying the Teichmüller theory.

Among other variants, IBM later produced AIX Version 3 ( also known as AIX / 6000 ), based on System V Release 3, for their IBM POWER-based RS / 6000 platform.

For the educational market a version of the first model was produced with a new plastic enclosure ( the First Asters had an all-metal enclosure ) that also had an opening on the top in which a cassette recorder could be placed.

The club is also particularly famous for its renowned youth program that has produced many Dutch talents over the years – Johan Cruijff, Edwin van der Sar, Dennis Bergkamp, national team top scorer Patrick Kluivert, and former national team coach Marco van Basten.

Alkaloids are produced by a large variety of organisms, including bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals, and are part of the group of natural products ( also called secondary metabolites ).

An antibody ( Ab ), also known as an immunoglobulin ( Ig ), is a large Y-shaped protein produced by B-cells that is used by the immune system to identify and neutralize foreign objects such as bacteria and viruses.

Mostly open two-seater sports cars and mostly bodied by Bert Bertelli's brother Enrico ( Harry ) a small number of long-chassis four-seater tourers, dropheads and saloons were also produced.

Copper cathodes produced using this method are also described as electrolytic copper.

The album is produced by Varsity Vocals, which also produces the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella.

Sesame oil, castor oil, grain, and various fruits are also produced there.

He also produced some original prints, including two etchings.

Their producer was Franco Godi, who also produced the music for the Signor Rossi animated series.

In 1977, she recorded her first album titled Amy Grant, produced by Brown Bannister ( who would also produce her next 11 albums ).

System compatible hardware has also been produced for the system.

In that same year Lerner also wrote the Oscar-winning original screenplay for An American in Paris, produced by Arthur Freed and directed by Vincente Minnelli.

Capp is also the subject of an upcoming WNET-TV American Masters documentary, The Life and Times of Al Capp, produced by his granddaughter, independent filmmaker Caitlin Manning.

There are also superefficient electric refrigerators, such as those produced by the Sun Frost company, some of which use only about half as much electricity as a mass-market energy star-rated refrigerator.

The main sources for gem material are Brazil and the U. S .. Australia, France, Germany, Namibia, Norway, and Spain have also produced gem quality amblygonite.

Nitrogen oxides can also be produced naturally by lightning strikes and sulfur dioxide is produced by volcanic eruptions.