Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: jjc@fire.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Jeffrey James Bryan Carpenter) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: More Old Radio Station History Message-ID: Date: 30 Aug 89 21:27:02 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 19 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 337, message 4 of 12 >I thought it was generally agreed that the first AM broadcast station >was KDKA in Pittsburg (known as 8XK, as in W8XK at the time). Now, >some people suggest that WGY was actually the first. Now you mention >WEAF, which, if I remember correctly, was more notable for its >pioneering work in FM broadcast than it was for AM. What's the >story here? KDKA was not the first AM radio station, but it was the first *commercial* AM radio station. I am not sure what non-commercial AM stations were around before KDKA, but WEAF may have been one of them. jeff ---------- Jeffrey J. B. Carpenter, University of Pittsburgh, Computer Center USMAIL: 600 Epsilon Drive, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15238 (412) 624 6424, FAX (412) 624-6436 | JJC@PITTVMS.BITNET | jjc@cisunx.UUCP JJC@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU or jjc@unix.cis.pitt.edu