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WLSW first signed on the air in 1971. The station was founded by legendary Pittsburgh DJ Ludwig Stanley "Uncle Stan" Wall, who first applied for the frequency back in 1968, after pulling out of a partnership for a new AM station (known today as WKFB) in nearby Jeannette. One of the partners in that venture encouraged Wall to apply for this new ...
WHJB, as the first radio station on the air in suburban Pittsburgh, experienced steady growth and prospered over its formative years, getting nighttime power authorization by 1955, as well as a daytime power increase, with power settings at 1,000 watts during the day, and 500 watts at night, adopting a directional antenna pattern with changing ...
KDKA (1020 kHz) is a Class A, clear channel, AM radio station, owned and operated by Audacy, Inc. and licensed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.Its radio studios are located at the combined Audacy Pittsburgh facility in the Foster Plaza on Holiday Drive in Green Tree, and its transmitter site is at Allison Park.
Australia's first official station. 2SB; 2BL as from 1 March 1924 ABC Radio Sydney: Sydney 23 November 1923. One of six Sealed Set system stations; AM 855 kHz [33] [34] XRO n/a Shanghai, China November 1923 AM 1500 kHz 50 Watts (1923). First radio station in China. [35] 2FC: 2RN, Radio National Sydney 12 December 1923. One of six Sealed Set ...
Pittsburgh is home to the first commercial radio station in the United States, KDKA 1020AM, the first community-sponsored television station in the United States, WQED 13, the first "networked" television station and the first station in the country to broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, KDKA 2, and the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
WKFB (770 AM) is a radio station licensed to Jeannette, Pennsylvania, that serves the greater Pittsburgh area. The station also broadcasts on 97.5 FM. Known as "97.5 770 KFB", the station airs an oldies format featuring music from the 1950s, 1960s, and the early to mid 1970s. The station is very popular with the audience that prefers the older ...
The station also added an affiliation with ABC's Entertainment Network by 1976. [24] In 1987, as at many AM radio stations, music was abandoned, and WTAE became a talk radio station. [25] Hosts included Jack Bogut, Lynn Cullen, Doug Hoerth and Phil Musick. WEAE's final logo as "1250 ESPN", used from 2008 until December 31, 2010
WPGH is the call sign of two broadcast stations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States: WPGH, the first student radio station at the University of Pittsburgh, which became WPTS-FM in 1986; WPGH AM, 1080 AM, a radio station which operated in Pittsburgh from 1947 to 1954. The 1080 frequency is currently used by WWNL.