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Moved "KDKA Radio" to "KDKA AM" to be consistent with practice established with KFI AM. KDKA Radio is ambiguous, since the station has broadcast on both AM and FM bands using the KDKA call sign (although it does not do so currently). Bill 16:03, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Slogan won't go through for some reason?[edit]

Slogan won't show up for some reason, help! Thanks.

Hholt01 11:48, 16 October 2005 (UTC)Hholt01[reply]

Call Sign?[edit]

Could somebody add an explanation here why this station uses a call sign beginning with "K" instead of a "W," since I think this usually indicates a station West of the Mississippi? Mabuse 18:12, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There are exceptions to this, it's not a hard and fast rule. 70.161.8.90 (talk) 13:29, 4 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Page history problem[edit]

Much of history of this redirect should be at KDKA (AM), not here. The attempted re-compliance with our naming conventions was done in the form of a cut-and-paste move. Could an administrator fix this? --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 20:06, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Importance of covering Pittsburgh Pirates baseball games[edit]

At this time the only mention of Pirates baseball and KDKA is a reference to the 1960 World Series. As the content at Bob Prince shows, carrying the play-by-play of all Pirates games was an important part of KDKA's image in the Pirate's home town and it strongly implies that the on-air play commentators were KDKA employees. Coverage of Pirate's games preempted any other KDKA show otherwise scheduled for that time slot. As a life-long Pirates fan and a boyhood listener to KDKA I suggest that someone with better access than I have to factual background data on the KDKA-Pirates relationship add content to add another facet to the role that KDKA plays in its market.

GRCoulter (talk) 06:50, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

KDKA claims[edit]

According to the Historical controversy section, all KDKA claims of being the world's first something (the world's first commercial radio station, the world's first commercially licensed radio station, the world's true first radio station) are incorrect. Still, these claimes are prominently featured in the second sentence. Any reason for that? Henning Blatt (talk) 18:13, 31 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

KQW primacy[edit]

It is unarguable that the first regularly scheduled audio voice (and music; with a mutual remuneration agreement with a local record store) broadcasts were made at 500 kHz in 1909, from the Herrold College of Engineering and Wireless in the Garden City Bank Building at the Southwest corner of First and San Fernando Streets in San Jose, California. After the radio silence mandated during WWI ceased in 1919, Herrold received a new license and the callsign KQW for time-shared "entertainment" transmission at 833 kHz, in 1921. In 1949 KQW, now with studios in San Francisco, became KCBS.^[1]^[2]

Westinghouse and other Eastern Seaboard propagandists have no means to dispute these facts and so have merely tried to shout them down and drown them out for the better part of a century. It won't work. Rt3368 (talk) 00:11, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Schneider, John F. (1996). "The History of KQW and KCBS - San Jose / San Francisco". bayarearadio.org. Bay Area Radio Museum. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
^ Greb, Gordon; Adams, Mike (2003). Charles Herrold, Inventor of Radio Broadcasting. Jefferson, NC: McFarland &Co. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-7864-1690-5. Retrieved 10 August 2015.

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[1] Schneider, John F. (1996). "The History of KQW and KCBS - San Jose / San Francisco". bayarearadio.org. Bay Area Radio Museum. Retrieved August 10, 2015.

[2] Greb, Gordon; Adams, Mike (2003). Charles Herrold, Inventor of Radio Broadcasting. Jefferson, NC: McFarland &Co. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-7864-1690-5. Retrieved 10 August 2015.

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