November 2 in American History
Pittsburgh station KDKA went on the air with the results of the Harding-Cox presidential election — the first scheduled commercial radio broadcast in America. Within a few years radio was in millions of homes, and a president's voice could reach the whole country at once for the first time.
In 1920: the first commercial radio broadcast. Pittsburgh station KDKA went on the air with the results of the Harding-Cox presidential election — the first scheduled commercial radio broadcast in America.
Pittsburgh station KDKA went on the air with the results of the Harding-Cox presidential election — the first scheduled commercial radio broadcast in America. Within a few years radio was in millions of homes, and a president's voice could reach the whole country at once for the first time.
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