KDKA

…world’s first commercial radio station, KDKA, began broadcasting in Pittsburgh in 1920.

…first commercial radio station was KDKA in Pittsburgh, which went on the air in the evening of Nov. 2, 1920, with a broadcast of the returns of the Harding-Cox presidential election. The success of the KDKA broadcast and of the musical programs that were initiated thereafter motivated others to install…

…on April 11, 1921, when KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcast the first live sporting event: a boxing match described by local newspaper reporter Florent Gibson. The first live baseball game was a Pittsburgh Pirates–Philadelphia Phillies game covered by announcer Harold Arlin and broadcast by KDKA on August 5, 1921. Football and…

…on November 2, 1920, when KDKA in Pittsburgh signed on—from a makeshift studio in a garage—and an announcer read the returns of the presidential race between Warren G. Harding and James M. Cox. The range of the 100-watt station was unknown at the time, and listeners to KDKA were asked…

KDKA in Pittsburgh, most often cited as the first radio outlet in the United States, had begun as the amateur station 8XK in 1916, but it was forced off the air in World War I. It reappeared on November 2, 1920, as a “commercial” voice-and-music…