+ = Operated by Urban One under a local marketing agreement; sale pending. They became the first commercial radio station on Earth on November 2, 1920. KDKA-TV is joining forces with the most trusted local CBS RADIO stations in Pittsburgh to give you... Pittsburgh Personalities « CBS Pittsburgh - KDKA ... Browse Kdka Radio Personalities pictures, photos, images, GIFs, and videos on Photobucket. Jump to navigation Jump to search. I only listened to Day once. You are using an out of date browser. Additional expenses included the requirement to pay royalties to musical composers, plus the fact that, unlike the amateur Westinghouse Company staff performers, professional acts started to expect to be paid in something more tangible than publicity. On April 30, 1956, KDKA relocated its studios from the Grant Building to Gateway Center, joining KDKA-TV. [83] In addition, beginning in late 1916, Lee de Forest's "Highbridge station" (2XG) in New York City also began transmitting regularly scheduled programs,[84] including a comprehensive November 7, 1916 election night broadcast. Frank Conrad stood by at his home station,[f] ready to take over using his 8XK transmitter if the East Pittsburgh transmitter failed, but the effort was successful, with one newspaper report noting that: "The returns by wireless telephone, which were transmitted from the Westinghouse international radio station at East Pittsburgh, were exceptionally clear and distinct. Gary Hess. Wow!! I just remember Jack Wheeler from back then and of course the last 4 or 5. In 1958 a plaque was installed on the university campus crediting "9XM-WHA" as "The Oldest Station in the Nation", including the statement that the station began "broadcasting on a regular schedule in 1919". After 11 years of providing early morning entertainment, Rege Cordic moved to KNX in Los Angeles. Pittsburgh-based Conservative radio host Wendy Bell was taken off the air Friday after comments she made about shooting protestors back in June resurfaced this week.“Entercom is the home to thousands of voices representing Americans of all races, ethnicities, gender identity, sexual orientation, beliefs and ability,” a statement from Entercom Pittsburgh Senior Vice … "[5], KDKA's establishment was an outgrowth of the post-World War I efforts of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company of East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to expand its commercial operations in the radio industry. His nightly "Contact" show (later "Open Mike") was KDKA's initial venture into the news-based talk radio format that would become the station's basic offering. Subcategories. JavaScript is disabled. By the end of the decade, the musical and comedy team of Buzz Aston and Bill Hinds, billed as "Buzz & Bill", aired. KDKA radio left the One Gateway Center studios on November 12, 2010, joining CBS' other Pittsburgh radio stations on Holiday Drive in Green Tree. After initially operating under the call sign 8ZZ — apparently for just a few days, although the chronology is not completely clear — the station switched to identifying itself as KDKA. Promotional announcements described the offering as a joint effort between Westinghouse and its International Radio Telegraph subsidiary,[30] and A. E. Braun, an International Radio Telegraph officer who was also the president of the Pittsburgh Post and Pittsburgh Sun, made the arrangements for his newspapers to provide election results to the station. [96] (WWJ and KDKA were both initially commercial-free, and did not start to accept advertising until the mid-1920s, so in this case "commercial" appears to just mean under the control of a commercial enterprise.) They're neatly arranged so you can pick and choose the ones that interest you. [60] The television station was renamed KDKA-TV on January 31, 1955. This led to modern studio design, including walls covered with noise-absorbing material, initially "monks cloth" (which turned out to be a fancy name for burlap).[43]. He died in 2018 at the age of 83. Election return broadcasts had been a tradition since shortly after the development of radio, although due to technical limitations initially they could only be done using Morse code, which greatly limited the potential audiences. (Reflecting the December launch, the January 1, 1922 debut issue of Westinghouse's Radio Broadcasting News included the reference "Fifty-fourth week broadcasting". In 1975, Roy Fox debuted as the 6 to 9 pm talk host. You mentioned Gary. Westinghouse merged with CBS in late 1995; KDKA would soon become an Infinity Broadcasting station, after that chain (a previously separate entity from CBS and Westinghouse) was acquired by Westinghouse a year later. [36] Although the election night broadcast was only heard by about 1,000 people, KDKA would eventually gain national prominence once it began to offer an extensive range of programming. This was reflected in the slogan, repeated each week in Westinghouse's Radio Broadcasting News publication beginning with the January 1, 1922 debut issue, that "Westinghouse Station KDKA was first to give regular Broadcasting Programs". Over the decades, however, KDKA has owed its success to more than the popularity of its morning hosts. Unlike most talk shows, callers were not heard, with the couple taking turns relaying the callers' information. )[40] KDKA soon gained a reputation as one of the premier broadcasting stations in the nation. Wheeler was there from 1969 through '74. [98] Beginning on March 4, 1923 KDKA, in addition to its normal operation on 360 meters (833 kHz), transmitted on shortwave wavelengths from 80 to 100 meters (3750 to 3000 kHz), for local rebroadcasts on 360 meters by both KDPM in Cleveland, Ohio and WBZ in East Springfield, Massachusetts. Although KDKA's history has been extensively reviewed, there are some inconsistencies between accounts, leading one researcher to note: "While the KDKA story is often recounted, the details tend to vary slightly both in the secondary source material and in the published recollections of the participants, including differences in the chronology of events and the relative importance of the parties involved. Additionally, KDKA Radio lost one of its longtime hosts when John Shumway recently left the station. Examples of election results sent in Morse code for the 1912 U.S. Presidential election included, Krumm (1922) additionally noted that "A special license was obtained from the government radio inspector in Detroit, Michigan, and the call letters 8ZZ were assigned to the station in the beginning." A legend, the Walter Cronkite of Pittsburgh. They were going to add a nightly talk show so they featured talk from a different city each night (with the station's permission of course). "[10], An application, signed by H. P. Davis, was submitted to the Eighth District Radio Inspector, S. W. Edwards in Detroit, who forwarded it to Washington, and on October 27, 1920, Westinghouse was issued a Limited Commercial station license, serial #174, with the identifying call letters of KDKA. An additional qualifier sometimes proposed for KDKA is that it was the first "commercial" station, but there is no consensus here either, as a 1945 advertisement for WWJ claimed that station was the one where "commercial radio began". Yunz guys's OLD!! This Westinghouse broadcast was not unique — that evening at least three other stations made audio transmissions of election returns, including the Detroit News' "Detroit News Radiophone" service,[33] a temporary arrangement made by the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch in conjunction with William E. Woods of the Benwoods Company, "manufacturers and distributors of wireless outfits",[34] and the Buffalo Evening News, over an amateur station operated by Charles C. Klinck, Jr.[35] Later station publicity proclaimed that Westinghouse's election night broadcast "was a national sensation, acclaimed by newspapers all over the country",[4] however a comprehensive review of contemporary newspapers determined that reports, although positive, actually appeared only in a few local papers, thus it "was not an immediate 'sensation' and that the fame of this event developed over time with later celebratory accounts". 2 = Transmits from Indiana County, Pennsylvania. KDKA became affiliated with the Blue network, and with this change began selling airtime: up until now, the station had been commercial-free. Viacom bought CBS Corporation in 1999, but five years later transformed itself into CBS Corporation, thus making KDKA a part of CBS Radio. On April 26, 2007, the East Pittsburgh building that was the birthplace for KDKA was razed to make way for an industrial complex. [8] In order to strengthen the company's patent position, especially related to receivers, he spearheaded the purchase of the International Radio Telegraph Company, primarily to gain control of a "heterodyne" patent originally issued to Reginald Fessenden, and also arranged for the purchase of the commercial rights to the regenerative and superheterodyne patents held by Edwin Howard Armstrong. In 1932, as a result of antitrust proceedings, Westinghouse had to divest its 40% ownership stake of RCA and 20% ownership in NBC. [48] From 1923 to 1940, KDKA produced Northern Messenger, airing it over its shortwave radio sister station 8XS (later known as W8XK and WPIT). As a pioneer in radio broadcasting, KDKA struggled in particular with studio acoustics, especially for large groups of performers. Since Dickson left, they've been taking programming off satellite. 1 Syndicated/national programs and personalities 2 Local hosts 3 Notable television personalities 4 Internet radio personalities 5 Podcasts 6 Other The following are radio talk show programs and personalities that are nationally syndicated or broadcast. abuser of guitars. [61] KDKA-TV affiliated with CBS, in contrast to KDKA's longtime NBC affiliation. KDKA cautiously embraced rock and roll music, with artists such as Bill Haley, the Everly Brothers, Fats Domino, and Elvis Presley, in addition to popular vocalists including Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, and Canonsburg, Pennsylvania native Perry Como. Is that so hard Boss? Between announcements of the returns radiophone music was transmitted, which added much to the entertainment."[32]. [87] However, Baudino later modified this opinion, and as the lead author, along with John Kittross, of a 1977 review of "Broadcasting's Oldest Stations", now concluded that the "first U.S. radio broadcasting station" was in fact Charles Herrold's San Jose station, dating to 1912. [85] At this point the station's transmitter was transferred to San Francisco, and relicensed as 6XC, the "California Theater Station", which around April 1920 inaugurated a wide-ranging selection of daily broadcasts. In 1923, KDKA began simulcasting its broadcasts on shortwave, and for a while used this as a link for transmitting its programs for rebroadcast by station KFHX in Hastings, Nebraska, as part of an unsuccessful experiment to use shortwave signals instead of telephone lines to establish network connections. Ken Rice (1994–present) - KDKA at 5 & 11 p.m.; WPCW at 10 p.m. Stacy Smith (1983–present) - noon, 4 & 6 p.m.; host of KD/PG Sunday Edition Kristine Sorensen (2003–present) - 5 p.m.; host of Pittsburgh Today Live This was emphasized when the September 3, 1945 issue of Time magazine included a report that the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) had recently sided with WWJ's "claim to being the world's first commercial radio station", by concluding that KDKA "was ten and a half weeks younger". In 2007, he became the host of Night Talk on the Pittsburgh Cable News Channel. In 1973, KDKA revamped its "Party Line" timeslot, with the bombastic John Cigna moving over from WJAS to anchor the nighttime talk program and urge listeners to "buy American!" What was on after midnight when party line was on? [11] This Limited Commercial grant was consistent with the standard practice being followed at this time, for licenses issued to companies engaging in private radio communication. On January 1, 1929, the station inaugurated new studio facilities located in the William Penn Hotel,[54] and on June 26 relocated its Master Control facilities to the hotel.[55]. [26] (The first "Z" in this call sign indicated it was a "Special Amateur" grant,[27] which was a classification that permitted the use of transmitting frequencies other than the congested 200 meter (1500 kHz) standard amateur wavelength.) This is a list of notable American talk radio hosts who express a liberal or progressive viewpoint, past and present. An early attempt to broadcast a concert by Westinghouse employees from a local auditorium found that the sensitive microphones picked up echoes from the walls, causing severe distortion. Before these new regulations were adopted, there were no prohibitions restricting broadcasting stations from operating under amateur or experimental licenses. His award-winning team included Bob Kopler, Dave James, Bob Kmetz, Barbara Boylan, Mike Whitely and Beth Trapani. Gary Hess is veteran Sports Director for all seven Entercom Richmond radio stations and the Virginia News Network. Beginning with the introduction of licensing in late 1912, the standard practice had been to assign call letters starting with "W" to radio stations east of the Mississippi River. The temporary switch to four-letter "K" call signs for new land station grants is documented by the monthly issues of the Commerce Department's. May 20, 2011 at 9:06 pm. In 1956 newsman Bill Steinbach began his 36-year career at the station — within 10 years he was the anchor of the award-winning 90-to-6 news program. In 1979, newsman Fred Honsberger began working at KDKA, and went on to host a successful evening talk show plus a top-rated afternoon drive program. KDKA overnight hosts. KDKA radio is now 100 years old! ♦ = Broadcasts as "WAMO 100.1" on 100.1 and 100.7-HD3. Although the original policy was restored a few months later, KDKA was permitted to keep its non-standard call sign.[b]. When one uses the word airhead they could interchange it with Elizabeth Day. [68] In September 2008, Radio-Info reported that KDKA was not for sale, even if CBS had received bids for its other Pittsburgh radio stations.[69]. While CBS shareholders retain a 72% ownership stake in the combined company, Entercom was the surviving entity, separating KDKA radio (both 1020 and FM 93.7) from KDKA-TV and WPCW-TV. Forecast; Weather News & Blogs; Podcasts. NewsRadio 1020 KDKA - KDKA, The Voice of Pittsburgh!, AM 1020, Pittsburgh, PA. Live stream plus station schedule and song playlist. On February 2, 2017, CBS agreed to merge CBS Radio with Entercom, currently the fourth-largest radio broadcaster in the United States; the sale will be conducted using a Reverse Morris Trust so that it will be tax-free. The next year de Forest wrote that this was the "first radio-telephone station devoted solely" to broadcasting to the public. [82] However, research has uncovered several challenges to this broad declaration. The face/voice of radio station KQV during the 1960s. [86] The station was relicensed as KZY late in 1921, then deleted in early 1923. Wheeler’s TV show, “Some of My Best Friends,” aired at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays on KDKA (Channel 2) — briefly. Shumway had been co-hosting a radio show with Larry Richert for decades. [65], On July 23, 1982, KDKA claims to have become the world's first radio station to broadcast in AM stereo although experimental AM stereo broadcasts were conducted as early as the 1960s on Mexico's XETRA 690.[66]. On November 2, 2020, KDKA began simulcasting on FM translator station 100.1 W261AX;[3] the move coincided with KDKA's 100th anniversary. PHILADELPHIA, PA – December 1, 2020 – Entercom welcomes news veteran Rick Dayton as afternoon drive host for KDKA News Radio (KDKA-AM/100.1-FM), the authoritative news and talk voice of Pittsburgh. KDKA AM Radio Host Repeatedly Misgenders Dr. Rachel Levine, PA Secretary of Health, During Media Call May 12, 2020 by Sue Marty Griffin misgendered Dr. Rachel Levine, PA Secretary of Health during a media call today. They used recently developed vacuum tube equipment that was capable of audio communication. Retired KDKA Radio Host John Cigna Has Died. Pittsburgh area native Kevin Battle will join “The KDKA Radio Morning News with Larry Richert” weekdays from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m., effective March 9. However, Westinghouse moved aggressively to establish itself as a national and international provider of radio communication. [102], Responsibility for the shortwave transmissions was later transferred to separately licensed experimental stations. ", "Special Land Stations: Strike out all particulars", "Special Land Stations: Alterations and Corrections", Construction and operation of radio-broadcasting station designed to promote friendly relations among the nations of the western hemisphere, FCC History Cards for KDKA (covering 1920–1981), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KDKA_(AM)&oldid=1000387300, News and talk radio stations in the United States, CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles needing additional references from November 2012, All articles needing additional references, Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 14 January 2021, at 22:00. [46] On August 5, 1921, KDKA became the first radio station to broadcast a major league professional baseball game, when announcer Harold W. Arlin called the Pittsburgh Pirates-Philadelphia Phillies game from Forbes Field. The KDKA Radio Morning Show with Larry Richert and Kevin Battle. And, oh yeah, Gary Dickson was mentioned. I liked to get hot dogs after midnight at station Street Hot Dogs with Terry McGovern on the radio on KD. [58] Also during this period, in 1942 it gained a sister station, W75P, on the then-new FM band, which later became KDKA-FM, changing to WPNT in 1979. Chic Influencer collaborates Melanie Mitro and Katy Ursta join KDKA Radio's Wendy Bell as she hosts a new Happy Hour series: Leading Women - Making a difference in Pittsburgh. [62] KDKA then went independent, relying more on its Group W ties than on a national network. Just curious. In July 2017, Pintek took a leave of absence to receive treatment for pancreatic cancer. However, the station's sound remained much more conservative than most Top 40 stations. (A license class dating back to 1912, not all Limited Commercial stations were authorized to make broadcasts.) The 1950s saw a shift to more local programming, as the national radio shows were moving to television. Under this new plan 920 kHz was exclusively allocated to Pittsburgh, and KDKA was granted sole use of this frequency. For some years announcer Sterling Yates, also a musician, played hip, progressive jazz on a Sunday morning broadcast. [56] At 7 a.m. on November 2, 1934, the station's 14th birthday, KDKA inaugurated new studios in the Grant Building. [90] His experimental station was relicensed in December 1921 as KQW, which later moved to San Francisco and changed its call letters to KCBS in 1949. In September 1920, a newspaper report noted that "a new high-power station, to operate under a special or commercial license, is being installed at the Westinghouse plant in East Pittsburgh. Shortly after beginning the process of setting up KDKA to be used for point-to-point communication, a series of events occurred which resulted in it also becoming a broadcasting station, which would overshadow its original role. Two and a half years later, in April 1968, Jack Bogut moved from Salt Lake City to become the KDKA morning host, a position he held for 15 years. Additionally, Westinghouse's operation of KDKA's broadcasting service under a "Limited Commercial" license appears to have been merely a side-effect of the fact that it had previously been determined that type of authorization was required for KDKA's original role, of providing private point-to-point communication between company installations. The service was utilized by many amateurs to entertain gatherings at their various stations. Listen to your favorite radio stations at Streema. Paul Moyer - anchor/reporter (1971); later worked in Los Angeles at KNBC. Its primary competitor in this effort was the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), which had recently been formed as a subsidiary by Westinghouse's arch rival, the General Electric Company of Schenectady, New York, using the assets of the Marconi Company of America. [51] In 1922, H. P. Davis suggested that the best solution was "five or six large, well-located and powerful stations" which "could be licensed, protected and organized... and that it would become a matter of such public value, that endowments or Federal subsidies would be possible which would assist those responsible for the service to carry it on and to continue the development and research required to get the most value out of it. However, KDKA happened to receive its assignment during a short period during which land stations were being issued call letters from a sequential block of "K" call letters that had previously been assigned only to ship stations. Herrold's San Jose broadcasts had been suspended due to the World War I prohibition of civilian radio stations, and he did not return to the airwaves until May 1921. In 1922 J. C. McQuiston, from the Westinghouse Department of Publicity, declared that "if advertising were permitted, it goes without saying that all the good work that has been done in giving valuable information and pleasant entertainment for the people would be destroyed". talk host. The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on the 17th; the merger marked the first time since its establishment that KDKA has not been owned by a direct descendant of Westinghouse.[71][72][73][74][75]. [67] Rush Limbaugh was added to the noon to 3:00 p.m. timeslot, and all-news blocks were added in the 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. and the 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. timeslots. Moving the performers outdoors eliminated the echoing, so a tent was erected on the building roof, and for a time concerts were performed from this location. [24] The antenna consisted of six 90 foot-long (27m) wires spread 20 feet (6m) apart, strung 210 feet (64 m) above the ground between a brick smokestack and a 100 foot (30 m) pipe mast atop the K Building. The effort to establish Westinghouse's radio industry presence was led by company vice president H. P. 122 talking about this. The copy of the initial KDKA license on file at the National Archives has a handwritten notation "First broadcasting licensee" written across the front, but this appears to have been added at a later date. He died on September 12, 2018. As of January 2009, Pintek was rehired at KDKA to host a 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. talk show, and, following the death of Fred Honsberger, took over the 12 noon-3 p.m. timeslot in January 2010. Prior to the sale KDKA swapped affiliations with KQV to become affiliated with the NBC-Red network. The Calvary services soon became a regular Sunday evening offering, and were continued until 1962. You must log in or register to reply here. Westinghouse would later turn itself into CBS Corporation in 1997. "[52] However, in 1928 he stated that he had realized "from the beginning" that advertising would be the ultimate financing solution.[53]. This station was sold by Westinghouse in 1984, and is now WLTJ. Inactive User. However, during the conflict Westinghouse received permission to operate research radio transmitters located at its East Pittsburgh plant and at the home of one of its lead engineers, Frank Conrad, in nearby Wilkinsburg.[7]. Jane Crawford also did weekend overnight shows for a time. [59] Before the purchase, Westinghouse had attempted to purchase the channel 13 license allocated for public broadcasting, but eventually donated the tower to public interest groups and gave financial backing for the eventual WQED. In the summer of 1969, KDKA debuted overnight talk with Jack Wheeler, launching an anything-goes talk show that ran from midnight to 6 a.m. six nights a week. Baudino and Kittross also concluded that there was no significant link between the daily broadcasts introduced on August 20, 1920 by the Detroit News' "Detroit News Radiophone", as amateur station 8MK, and its subsequent transformation into WBL and later WWJ, something with which the newspaper stoutly disagreed: for example, in a 1934 advertisement, WWJ, still owned by the Detroit News, declared itself "America's Pioneer Broadcasting Station". From 1941 to 1959, the Farm Hour was built around farm reports along with music by Slim Bryant and his Wildcats, who eventually became the top local country music act in the Pittsburgh area. In 1922, a 1 kW shortwave transmitter was installed at Westinghouse's factory in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with call sign 8XS. The Cordic & Company morning show, featuring a team of bright and innovative personalities, was a pioneer of today's "morning team" radio format, but in an unconventional way. Today, a typical local radio station is doing well if it has 20 percent of that audience. It was right after the 2000 Presidential Election. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Early programming often featured live musical performances by a band composed of Westinghouse employees. Category:Radio personalities from Pittsburgh. Later publicity stated that KDKA was now broadcasting on 330 meters (909 kHz), and in the fall of 1921 all the Westinghouse broadcasting stations began using 360 meters (833 kHz). KDKA (1020 kHz AM) is a Class A (clear channel) radio station, owned and operated by Entercom and licensed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Its studios are located at the combined Entercom Pittsburgh facility in the Foster Plaza on Holiday Drive in Green Tree, and its transmitter site is at Allison Park.The station's programming is also carried over KDKA-FM's 93.7 HD2 digital … In the 1930s, KDKA began the long-running (1932–1980) Uncle Ed Shaughency show. Special programming included ongoing coverage of the 1936 St. Patrick's Day flood that submerged downtown Pittsburgh as far as Wood Street. Although the pre-broadcast publicity and contemporary accounts stated that 8ZZ was the call sign used for the election night broadcast — for example, in 1922 L.R. Are you looking for weekend hosts as well? "There have been three morning hosts at KDKA Radio in my lifetime – Jack Bogut, John Cigna, and Larry Richert, and I am thrilled I get to … This often includes semantic complexities involving carefully crafted definitions and qualifiers — including "first", "oldest", "scheduled", "commercial", and "real" — in an attempt to make sense of a fluid and not always well documented era. Dennis Miller - contributor and guest host of Evening Magazine, got his first on air experience with KDKA. [44] On January 15, 1921, at 8 p.m., KDKA broadcast a speech on European relief by Herbert Hoover from the Duquesne Club in Pittsburgh, that was carried ten miles (sixteen kilometers) by a telephone line connection to Westinghouse's East Pittsburgh Works. KDKA Radio 100th Anniversary; Watch: KDKA Radio Live Video; Shows. The announcer for the election night broadcast was a publicity department staff member, Leo Rosenberg. 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