KDKA (AM) (2239 bytes)
1: ...tates|U.S.]] class A [[clear channel]] [[AM radio|AM]] radio station located in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylv...
3: ...E, and eventually KQW (which would become [[KCBS (AM)|KCBS]]). Other early stations include [[Lee De ...
5: ...ritime stations, and on [[November 2]], [[1920]], KDKA broadcast the [[U.S. presidential election, 1920|...
7: KDKA became a full-service radio broadcaster, carrying music...
9: Today, KDKA is a news and [[talk radio]] station. It broadcas...

KDKA (284 bytes)
1: '''KDKA''' is the [[callsign]] of two [[broadcast station...
3: *'''[[KDKA (AM)|KDKA]]''' AM 1020, the first commercial station in the U.S.
4: *'''[[KDKA-TV]]''', channel 2 ([[DTV]] 25)
5: *'''KDKA-FM''' 92.9, now [[WLTJ (FM)|WLTJ]]
7: {{disambig}}

KDKA-TV (1300 bytes)
9: '''Name It Goes By:''' KDKA-TV 2 (may soon be changing to "CBS 2 Pittsburgh")
11: '''Web Site:''' http://www.kdka.com
13: ...he same call signs as their sister radio station, KDKA Radio, which was the world's first commercially-l...
15: ...he following year, the company bought CBS, making KDKA-TV a CBS O&O station after four decades as simply...
17: ...acom]] merged with CBS in 2000. KDKA instantly became sister stations with Pittsburgh [[UPN]] affiliat...

WPXI-TV (697 bytes)
9: '''Name It Goes By:''' Channel 11 News
13: ...ts first 10 PM News, which it now competes with [[KDKA-TV]] (through [[WNPA-TV]]) and [[WPGH-TV]].

Radio station (4258 bytes)
3: ...are of a number of types. The best known are the AM and FM stations, both [[commercial broadcasting|c...
7: ...h their own station was making radios by the time KDKA was licensed.
9: ...990s]]. Channels are spaced every 10kHz in the [[Americas]], and generally every 9kHz everywhere else...
13: ...em. In the United States, the [[IBOC]] system is named [[HD Radio]] and owned by a private company, a ...
16: *[[base station]]s for [[police]], [[fire]] and [[ambulance]] networks

Tim Murphy (congressman) (3308 bytes)
1: ...[[September 12]], [[1952]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[politician]] who currently serves in th...
3: ...]]. He also made regular appearances on [[KDKA-TV|KDKA]] television station in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvani...
9: ...ervice in the State Senate and his appearances on KDKA. When the votes were counted on [[November 5]], ...

Josie Carey (777 bytes)
1: ...Carey''' ([[1931]] - [[May 28]], [[2004]]), stagename of Josephine Vicari Massucci Franz, was the host...
3: ...Storyland" and "Funsville," which were aired on [[KDKA-TV]] in Pittsburgh, "Wheee!" in [[South Carolina]...

Westinghouse Electric Corporation (3043 bytes)
6: ...ompany include [[William Stanley (physicist)|William Stanley]], [[Nikola Tesla]] and [[Oliver Schallen...
9: * [[1889]] renamed the ''Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing C...
11: ...oadcasting industry, with stations like [[KDKA AM|KDKA]] in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]
14: * [[1945]] - renamed the ''Westinghouse Electric Corporation''.
20: * [[1997]] - sells non-broadcast operations, renamed [[CBS]]

Irvin Yeaworth (998 bytes)
1: ...on]] in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]. He later became a radio producer. However, he is best known for ...
11: * The Flaming Teen-Age (1956)
19: * The Flaming Teen-Age (1956)
23: * The Flaming Teen-Age (1956)

Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania (3764 bytes)
3: ...scope]], the photocell "eye" of early television cameras.
5: ...burgh]] in order to (according to borough leader James Kelly) maintain the religious integrity of the ...
15: ...n]], 0.38% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.81% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.0...
17: ...e average household size is 2.06 and the average family size is 2.91.
21: ...s $16,890. 18.7% of the population and 15.9% of families are below the [[poverty line]]. Out of the ...

List of television stations in Pennsylvania (6988 bytes)
5: *Channel 2: [[KDKA-TV]] - [[CBS]], Pittsburgh CBS O&O station.
8: *Channel 4: [[WTAE-TV]] - [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], Pittsburgh Owne...
10: *Channel 6: [[WPVI-TV]] - [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], Philadelphia, '...
11: ...]] - low-power independent (initially a [[Channel America]] affiliate) - Philadelphia
23: *Channel 16: [[WNEP-TV]] - [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], Scranton-Wilkes...

East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2741 bytes)
9: ...n]], 0.35% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.10% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.0...
11: ...e average household size is 2.14 and the average family size is 2.97.
15: ...s $13,391. 22.0% of the population and 17.5% of families are below the [[poverty line]]. Out of the ...
19: ...he first transmission from pioneer station [[KDKA AM]] was made from East Pittsburgh.

North American call sign (3068 bytes)
3: ...]s by transmitter characteristics. The '''[[North America]]n call sign''' format for [[radio call sign...
5: ... signs beginning with "W". Exceptions include: [[KDKA]] ([[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]]), the ...
6: ...f the Mississippi River generally begin with "K". Among the [[grandfather clause|grandfather]]ed excep...
12: ...ère Chaîne/La Chaîne culturelle" (French-language AM/FM) of a city, although they do have official thr...
14: ...tations that rebroadcast other stations have the same callsign, but with a different number at the end...

DuMont Television Network (6324 bytes)
1: ...set manufacturer [[Allen B. DuMont]] and the [[Paramount Pictures]] movie studio, which had previously...
6: ==Programming==
7: ...n Video]]'', ''Rocky Jones, Detective'', and the camera's-eye-view detective series, ''The Plainclothe...
9: ...k warehouse until the [[1970s]]. Actress [[Edie Adams]], wife of comedian [[Ernie Kovacs]] who had don...
12: ...condary ones who could pick and choose which programs to carry, and so its growth was severely handica...

Grandfather clause (3331 bytes)
3: Some examples:
5: ... Amendment to the United States Constitution|22nd Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution|Cons...
10: ...f the Mississippi River starting with a W (plus [[KDKA]], [[KQV]] and [[KYW]] in [[Pennsylvania]]) licen...
12: ...es, until the ratification of the [[Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution]], the 1...

Nick Perry (2962 bytes)
1: ... A television and radio personality who became infamous after
8: ...adcasting on Pittsburgh’s WDTV, the forerunner of KDKA.
10: announcer. Later, Perry became a news and weather reporter and was the host of ...
11: sports shows like “Bowling for Dollars” and “Championship Bowling”.
13: In 1977, Perry became the host of the live nightly broadcast of the Pe...

Callsign (radio) (14010 bytes)
1: ...s''') is a unique designation for [[amateur radio|amateur]], [[broadcast]], and sometimes [[military]]...
6: For example:
16: ==Amateur radio==
18: ...te]] region, and ''TZO'' is the suffix. Another example is WB3EBO. ''WB'' is the prefix, the number ''...
22: ===North America===

Dennis Miller (4105 bytes)
1: [[Image:Dennis Miller1.jpg|right|frame|]]
2: ...n [[November 3]], [[1953]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[comedian]] and television personality. ...
4: ...on news magazine for teenagers, on Pittsburgh's [[KDKA-TV]].
6: Miller rose to fame from [[1985]] to [[1991]] as a regular on ''[[Sa...
14: ...ure analogy-riddled [[stream of consciousness|streams of consciousness]] similar to his "rants". After...

U.S. presidential election, 1920 (9104 bytes)
3: ...e arguing over peace treaties and the question of America's entry into the [[League of Nations]]. Over...
8: ...ption of "normality" and later became part of the American dialect) after the trying times of the Worl...
11: ...d another newspaper editor from Ohio, Governor [[James M. Cox]], as their presidential candidate, and ...
16: [[Socialist Party of America|Socialist Party]] candidate [[Eugene V. Debs...
18: ...ment to the United States Constitution|Eighteenth Amendment]] starting [[Prohibition]] had passed the ...

Clear channel (6191 bytes)
1: :''For information on the company named Clear Channel, see [[Clear Channel Communicatio...
3: ..., some frequencies were designated by the [[North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement]] (NARBA) (to ...
5: ...ere limited to 1000 watts. Later in [[1928]], the AM band was reorganized with local, regional and cle...
7: ...have been allowed to increase their power to the same 50,000 W as clear channel stations. In [[1987]]...
9: ....S.]] radio stations, though they did take their name from the term.

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