Hear, Hear! I'm always dubious, of "it's all due to one guy," theories.
On Oct 30, 2007, at 8:43 AM, Harold Cones wrote:
But Curt, what about Charles "Doc" Herrold who was broadcasting
regular, scheduled programs of music and talk in San Jose in 1910?
His wife, Sybil claimed to be the first female DJ in 1913. His
station morphed into KQW and eventually KCBS. Or the Physics
Department of Iowa State University that carried on regular
broadcasting in 1913, even broadcasting from the Iowa State Fair in
1915? Their station eventually became WOI. Or the University of
Wisconsin station in 1917 that became WHA? I think the difference
is that KDKA had one Hell of a PR man working for them. As I have
researched radio history I have found hundreds of instances like
this one. I don't think it was KDKA, but, ain't we glad somebody
did it? By the way, I am just having fun here, not giving Curt a
hard time (it is always hard to tell in email contacts). Radio
historians have been debating this issue almost as long as there
has been radio.
Harold
Curt Phillips W4CP wrote:
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
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