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WHJB had always been primarily a Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania radio station while WKHB with its higher power and closer tower, aspires to serve the tri-state greater Pittsburgh area. Although the station continued to operate as a music-formatted, stand-alone AM outlet for several more years, the call letter change to WKHB in 1999 was more ...
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 ...
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.
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.
The first radio news program was broadcast on August 31, 1920, on the station 8MK in Detroit; owned by The Detroit News, the station covered local election results. This was followed in 1920 with the first commercial radio station in the United States, KDKA, being established in Pittsburgh. The first regular entertainment programs were ...
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 ...
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 ...
KQV (1410 AM) is a non-commercial radio station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and covering the Greater Pittsburgh Region. Owned by Broadcast Educational Communications, the station simulcasts WKGO (88.1 FM) in Murrysville and airs an easy listening radio format. KQV is one of the oldest radio stations in North America.