K KDKA people‎ (16 P) Pages in category "Radio personalities from Pittsburgh" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. 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". It appears that Westinghouse officials were initially unaware that, in addition to Frank Conrad's 8XK, other stations had been making regular news and entertainment broadcasts. [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. Also in 1979, KDKA covered the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, first reported by Harrisburg newsman Mike Pintek. Also in the 1960s, KDKA reported numerous important events, including the Pirates' improbable 1960 World Series win. "[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. 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. 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. Clear-channel News/Talk radio station in Pittsburgh, PA. Radio station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 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 … 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." (Reflecting the December launch, the January 1, 1922 debut issue of Westinghouse's Radio Broadcasting News included the reference "Fifty-fourth week broadcasting". [9], Although it would gain its fame as a broadcasting station, KDKA actually originated as part of a project to establish private radiotelegraph links between Westinghouse's East Pittsburgh factory and its other facilities, to avoid the business expense of paying for telegraph and telephone lines. The announcer for the election night broadcast was a publicity department staff member, Leo Rosenberg. 2 = Transmits from Indiana County, Pennsylvania. In 1943, NBC was compelled by the U.S. government to divest itself of one of its two networks, which resulted in it selling the Blue network (which became the American Broadcasting Company). And, oh yeah, Gary Dickson was mentioned. 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 During this time the Joseph Horne department store ran daily full-page advertisements in the Pittsburgh papers, and, in its September 23, 1920 placement, stated that the store had started selling "Amateur Wireless Sets" for "$10 upwards". BILL BURNS. Mar 4 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EST. By now, KDKA had become a full service adult contemporary radio station. 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. [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. However, Westinghouse moved aggressively to establish itself as a national and international provider of radio communication. Listeners put a face to that distinctive southern drawl in the early ’70s. The 1950s saw a shift to more local programming, as the national radio shows were moving to television. [25] Frank Conrad had originally planned to broadcast the election results over 8XK, in cooperation with the American Radio Relay League, but shifted his efforts to help with the Westinghouse broadcast. 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. [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. [56] At 7 a.m. on November 2, 1934, the station's 14th birthday, KDKA inaugurated new studios in the Grant Building. Yunz guys's OLD!! 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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). 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". Perry Marshall followed. 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. September 21, 2020 … 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. Over the decades, however, KDKA has owed its success to more than the popularity of its morning hosts. He anchored the KDKA news for 36 years. His award-winning team included Bob Kopler, Dave James, Bob Kmetz, Barbara Boylan, Mike Whitely and Beth Trapani. [23] That station operated under the amateur call sign of "8MK" and is now AM 950 WWJ. [78], The best known priority dispute has been between KDKA and WWJ in Detroit, Michigan, a controversy in which some neutral observers have carefully tried to avoid being entangled. Mike Pintek, longtime reporter and talk show host on KDKA Radio, died early Wednesday after battling cancer for more than a year. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. [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. By 1960, KDKA added more rock and roll music, as competitor KQV made ratings gains. Are you looking for weekend hosts as well? Wheeler’s TV show, “Some of My Best Friends,” aired at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays on KDKA (Channel 2) — briefly. [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. Mary Anne Lewis was in the mix as well. Category:Radio personalities from Pittsburgh. In 1922, KDKA hosted political humorist Will Rogers in his first radio appearance. Baudino and Kittross argued that this post-World War I gap disqualified KCBS from "oldest station" consideration, something neither KQW nor KCBS has agreed with, as program schedules for KQW appearing in 1925 included the slogan "Pioneer Broadcasting Station of the World",[91] and in 2009 KCBS celebrated its 100th birthday with a yearlong series of events throughout the Bay Area, including the public dedication of a plaque commemorating the "Centennial Celebration of the World's First Broadcasting Station". At the time of the entry of the United States into World War I in April 1917, the government ordered all civilian radio stations off the air. KDKA radio remained affiliated with NBC radio until the network purchased WJAS in 1957 in order for WJAS's owners to gain a 50% ownership stake in WIIC-TV (now WPXI) with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. [99], The shortwave relay to KDPM was judged to be successful. Davis. "Pittsburgh's Contributions to Radio" by S. M. 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Retired KDKA Radio Host John Cigna Has Died. Since Dickson left, they've been taking programming off satellite. Joe Gearing did weekends and weekday fill in (both overnights) in the early 1980s and probably earlier. Other artists featured on the station included the Four Seasons, the Vogues, Lou Christie (the latter two Pittsburgh-bred), the Beach Boys, the Hollies, the Supremes, Four Tops, and the Turtles. Thanks. Revel and Roost 242 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15222. In the 1930s, KDKA began the long-running (1932–1980) Uncle Ed Shaughency show. The U.S. government had no a formal definition of broadcasting, or specific regulations, until December 1, 1921 when the existing Limited Commercial license category was amended to add a broadcast service subcategory for a select group of designated stations. Oh and yes the former Miss Pa. Ms. Day. [57] The William Penn Hotel studios later became the home of WCAE. Listen to KDKA 1020 AM, WLTJ - Q92.9 and Many Other Stations from Around the World with the radio.net App KDKA 1020 AM Pittsburgh News-Talk WLTJ - Q92.9 Pittsburgh 80s, 90s, Hits, Top 40 … In July 2017, Pintek took a leave of absence to receive treatment for pancreatic cancer. The station I worked for in the mid 70's WFTL Fort Lauderdale came up with a novel idea. In July 2008, CBS Corporation announced some of its radio stations were available for sale and the company would concentrate on its operations in major markets; as Pittsburgh was ranked as the 24th largest market by Arbitron there was speculation KDKA and its three sister stations, WBZW-FM (93.7, now KDKA-FM), WDSY-FM (107.9) and WZPT (100.7 FM, now WBZZ) would be sold. + = Operated by Urban One under a local marketing agreement; sale pending. The major exponent of rock on KDKA radio was disc jockey Clark Race, who also hosted "Dance Party" on KDKA-TV, a local version of Dick Clark's American Bandstand. [50], Running over-the-air commercials was an obvious financing alternative, but initially Westinghouse officials were soundly against the idea, contending that it would destroy the listening experience. In 1975, Roy Fox debuted as the 6 to 9 pm talk host. They're neatly arranged so you can pick and choose the ones that interest you. In 2007, he became the host of Night Talk on the Pittsburgh Cable News Channel. ago! For some years announcer Sterling Yates, also a musician, played hip, progressive jazz on a Sunday morning broadcast. During the war, Westinghouse received government contracts to develop radio transmitters and receivers for military use. On the revenue side, Westinghouse found that it didn't have the near-monopoly for selling vacuum-tube receivers that it expected it had gotten through the purchase of the commercial rights to the Armstrong regenerative patent. Neither KDKA's original application, nor the resulting license, mentioned broadcasting, only that the station was to be used for radiotelegraphic communication with stations located at the Westinghouse facilities in Cleveland, Newark and Springfield, plus station WCG in Brooklyn, New York, which was operated by the recently acquired International Radio Telegraph. [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.) The broadcasts were again suspended in early 1920, the result of a run-in with the local Radio Inspector. It will be used to establish communication between the East Pittsburgh plant and the company branch factories at Cleveland, O., Newark, N. J., and Springfield, Mass., where similar outfits will be employed. The face/voice of radio station KQV during the 1960s. (That could be another topic itself.) The service was utilized by many amateurs to entertain gatherings at their various stations. Real issues of radio are lurking in the CC building and the Foster Plaza building and all that we see is more on KDKA overnight hosts???? 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]. [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.) 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. Cordic's crew included Karl Hardman and Bob Trow, later known for portraying "Bob Dog" and "Robert Troll" on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Since the establishment of KDKA-FM as a sports talk station, KDKA has since been used as an overflow station for some of its sports rights, including the Pirates (whose rights returned to CBS Radio via KDKA-FM in 2012). By the end of the decade, the musical and comedy team of Buzz Aston and Bill Hinds, billed as "Buzz & Bill", aired. JavaScript is disabled. A general frequency reassignment under the provisions of newly formed Federal Radio Commission's General Order 40, effective November 11, 1928, led to KDKA being assigned to the "clear channel" frequency of 980 kHz. All business, Burns had a gruff, Lou Grant type persona and was the consummate professional. Previous spark gap transmitters could only be used to transmit the dots-and-dashes of Morse code. [17] On October 17, 1919 Conrad made the first of what would become a semi-regular series of entertainment broadcasts.[18]. However, Westinghouse soon decided to move its relay target to the geographical center of the United States, and switched to a newly constructed station, KFKX in Hastings, Nebraska, beginning on November 22, 1923,[100] which ended the relay transmissions to KDPM. Throughout the 1980s, KDKA continued an information and news intensive adult contemporary music format, playing four to six songs per hour at drive times and 10 to 12 songs an hour during middays and weekends. Through the next month semiweekly broadcasts were made,[37] until December 21, when the station embarked on an ambitious daily schedule,[38][39] initially for about an hour each evening. Then it was Bob Logue, followed by Gary Dickson. Between announcements of the returns radiophone music was transmitted, which added much to the entertainment."[32]. [103] This was joined by 8XAU in 1924,[104] which, after the original 8XK was deleted later that year,[105] changed its call sign to the historically significant 8XK,[106] and then W8XK in 1929, with its transmitter power increasing to 40 kW by 1937. Is that so hard Boss? 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. This led to some early Commerce Department information listing WBZ as the first broadcasting station, and KDKA as the fourth. 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". [45] On July 2, 1921, RCA arranged to broadcast live, over temporary station WJY, the Jack Dempsey - Georges Carpentier heavyweight boxing match in New Jersey, with the company claiming that 300,000 persons listened to the WJY transmission. 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. May 20, 2011 at 9:06 pm. 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. [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. ", "Why Radiophone Broadcasting Should be Continued", "KDKA Set to Sign Off and Move From Studios Atop William Penn", "Engineers Test New KDKA Plant with Station Founder Listening", "KQV, Pittsburgh, and WCBM, Baltimore, Will Transfer to Blue Network in Fall", "Westinghouse pays record to buy DuMont's WDTV (TV)", "Pittsburgh Radio & TV Online - Creating 'QED ... at DuMont's expense? Westinghouse, along with RCA and General Electric, was a co-founder in 1926 of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), which created two national radio networks: the NBC Red Network and the NBC Blue Network. This station was sold by Westinghouse in 1984, and is now WLTJ. KDKA eventually made the decision to switch from a full-service format that included music to one that was an exclusively news/talk. Talk:KDKA-TV - Wikipedia KDKA (1020 kHz AM) is a Class A clear-channel radio station licensed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1946, a KDKA promotional pamphlet, issued under the name of the station's general manager, Joseph E. Baudino, stated that Westinghouse's November 2, 1920 election day effort marked "the world's first regularly scheduled broadcast". In 1997, Bob DeWitt was hired as news director, serving for two years. [82] However, research has uncovered several challenges to this broad declaration. The station's programming is also carried over KDKA-FM's 93.7 HD2 digital subchannel,[2] and is simulcast on translator station W261AX (100.1 FM).[3]. [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. He and Donald G. Little had primary responsibility for constructing a 100 watt vacuum-tube transmitter, scaling up Conrad's previous 50 watt radiotelephone transmitter design. I only listened to Day once. The KDKA Radio Morning Show with Larry Richert and Kevin Battle. 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. [49], The original financing plan, of using the revenues from radio receiver sales to pay station costs, proved to be insufficient for a number of reasons. See, I thought this thread was going to be so boring that I didn't even bother reading past the first post. [86] The station was relicensed as KZY late in 1921, then deleted in early 1923. [60] The television station was renamed KDKA-TV on January 31, 1955. It's always been a board with a variety of topics. The 90th anniversary celebration was primarily sponsored by Westinghouse Electric Company, a nuclear power company with a history dating back to the original Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. 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