KDKA
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Sep 11, 2026
Bob PrinceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's
Gene OsborneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
the home run, 60-6, with Bill Steinbach and the KDKA UC on KDKA Pittsburgh.
Gene OsborneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Bill Pappas, the
Bob PrinceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
right-hander, 2-2 on the hill.
53 MINS LATER
Nellie KingSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Two balls and a strike.
Nellie KingSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A lot of people you haven't seen in a while dropping by to see this game.
Nellie KingSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Chuck Boyle, former cameraman with KDKA and now with NBC.
Nellie KingSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He was here.
Chuck BryantHOST
Uh, the other big one was the radio.
Chuck BryantHOST
Uh, KDKA in Pittsburgh was the first, um, I guess commercial broadcast station.
Josh ClarkHOST
Mm-hmm.
Chuck BryantHOST
And by 1924, there were more than 600 of those, and all of a sudden there was, like, music happening and movies happening that featured, uh, different styles and young women, like, you know, dancing and having fun.
SeanHOST
There we go.
EdHOST
So, Sean, Harold Arlen is working, as I said, as an electrical engineer for Westinghouse in Pittsburgh when his friend and fellow engineer, Dr. Frank Conrad, invited him to tour the new KDKA Studios.
EdHOST
And when I say studio, I mean that in the loosest possible sense, because the operation was basically a shack on the roof of the Westinghouse plant.
EdHOST
And during the tour, another friend asked Arlen to say a few words into a nearby microphone.
EdHOST
from what research I did, it claimed that he was the first, so...
EdHOST
Sure.
EdHOST
KDKA had received its broadcasting license on November 2nd, 1920 and became the first commercially licensed radio station in the world.
EdHOST
Its inaugural broadcast was especially appropriate for the occasion because election returns from the presidential election held earlier happened that same day.
Mallory FalkHOST
And then, you know, there have been rumors swirling for a while now about whether or not he would run.
Mallory FalkHOST
And he did confirm to KDKA that he's, quote unquote, thinking about running against Fetterman.
Mallory FalkHOST
But, you know, immediately pivoted to like right now his focus is on winning the midterms.
Mallory FalkHOST
He's got to win his own seat.
Scott PenfoldHOST
Looks like we have some answers about Saturday night.
Scott PenfoldHOST
Enjoy Wrestling co-owner Kurt Hackimer has issued a full statement to the KDKA in Pittsburgh, and it clears up a lot of confusion.
Scott PenfoldHOST
Andy Williams collapsed at ringside after his match and hit his head on the floor.
Scott PenfoldHOST
It carried him to the side where two doctors and staff attended to him.
Sydney SilvaniCORRESPONDENT
Investigators say Hamilton had taken a shower and was wrapped in a towel when Korber allegedly assaulted her with his hands, feet and objects on the front porch for over an hour.
Sydney SilvaniCORRESPONDENT
Local CBS affiliate KDKA obtained video showing Korber kneeling and surrendering to Pennsylvania State Police outside the home.
Sydney SilvaniCORRESPONDENT
State Police Trooper Steve Lamani revealed that Korber confessed during police questioning.
Sydney SilvaniCORRESPONDENT
Korber is being held without bail at Westmoreland County Prison with a preliminary hearing scheduled for September 14th.
Mama JulesHOST
Okay, this abuse that I'm about to describe is horrible, so here is your trigger warning.
Mama JulesHOST
In fact, Detective Justice Salzo told KDKA in 2022 that the case was, quote, more heinous than most.
Mama JulesHOST
Now, police say that David and the 14-year-old boy repeatedly S.A.'d the 5-year-old whenever she was in the home.
Mama JulesHOST
The allegations included penetration with a screwdriver.
speaker_10UNKNOWN
Play with your meat.
MikeyHOST
By the way, speaking of food, we got a nice little salute, shout out, I guess, on KDKA yesterday.
MikeyHOST
Hey, we're having a good run with KDKA here, right? I mean, first, we had the guy up on Mount Washington who called for the Yin's Vengers on KDKA to get to the bottom of the Star Wars vending machine thing.
speaker_16SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We got to get...
speaker_16SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A task force here of all the Yinzer legends.
Mallory FalkHOST
And since we're all shouting out inventions or firsts, one of the ones I love is that Pittsburgh had the very first commercial radio station in the U.S.
Mallory FalkHOST
So shout out to KDKA, which went on the air in 1920.
Mallory FalkHOST
And I feel like that just kind of was the beginning of our really important place in broadcast history, you know, with things like Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood as well.
Sophia LoPANELIST
And of course, we have all of that steelworker history.
Donal FallonGUEST
Of course they did.
Donal FallonGUEST
Before everybody, 1920, it was called KDKA in Pennsylvania, USA.
Donal FallonGUEST
And in America, not unlike Ireland, you had a society that was both urban and rural.
Donal FallonGUEST
Yeah.
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