First Commercial Radio Broadcast | C-SPAN Classroom
This first commercial radio broadcast announced the live results of the 1920 Presidential election, contested between Republican Warren G. Harding and Democrat James M. Cox, both of Ohio.
Radio in the United States - Wikipedia
Radio broadcasting has been used in the United States since the early 1920s to distribute news and entertainment to a national audience. In 1923, one percent of U.S. households owned at …
History of Commercial Radio - Federal Communications Commission
Under the call sign KDKA, Pittsburgh’s Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company transmitted the first scheduled broadcast on Nov. 2, 1920. KDKA’s Leo Rosenberg announced …
Early Days of Radio, 1920 — Vermont Historical Society
The first commercial radio station was KDKA in Pittsburgh, which went on the air on November 2, 1920, broadcasting the returns of the Harding-Cox presidential election.
Pioneering Radio Stations in Each U.S. State
Jun 24, 2024 · Maryland ’s first broadcasters, WCAO and WFBR, opened in Baltimore in 1922, and Massachusetts launched WGI in Medford in 1920. Michigan’s WWJ, beginning in 1920, …
100 years ago, the first commercial radio broadcast announced ...
Oct 30, 2020 · Only 100 people were listening, but the first broadcast from a licensed radio station occurred at 8 p.m. on Nov. 2, 1920. It was Pittsburgh’s KDKA, and the station was …
November 1920 - ITS
November 1920: First Scheduled Commercial Radio Broadcast On November 2, 1920 Frank Conrad broadcast the election results from the Harding-Cox election (Harding won 37 of 48 …
November 2, 1920: Americans Tune In For The First Time
On November 2, 1920, media history was made when the radio station KDKA, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, went on the air for the first time.
Radio Fever [ushistory.org]
On the night of November 2, 1920, Conrad and his Westinghouse associates announced that Warren G. Harding had defeated James Cox to become the next President. The message was …
First Commercial Radio Station: Nov. 3, 1920 ⋆ Level Up Civics
Pittsburgh radio station KDKA broadcast results of the 1920 presidential election, becoming the first American commercial radio station offering news and entertainment.