Jim Higgins wrote:
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 21:21:08 -0000, wrote:

Jim Higgins wrote:
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:12:38 -0000, wrote:

Szczepan Bialek wrote:

If in 1915 were no broadcast stations to speak tell us what was with the
first station to speak and when it start transmitting.
S*

There were no broadcasting stations of any kind in 1915.

The first station that could even remotely be called a broadcasting station
was in 1916 and it broadcasted weather reports in morse code.

The first experimental AM broadcast stations started in 1919 and regular AM
broadcasting started in 1920 when all the spark gap morse transmitters
were shut down.


Make that 1906 for the first experimental AM broadcast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Fessenden

The operative words are "scheduled" and "public" in this context.

There were lots of one off things done before 1919.

Yes, but the first one off thing of a kind is still the FIRST one off
thing of that kind. So make that 1906 for the "first experimental AM
broadcast station," not 1919.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio

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The question of the 'first' publicly-targeted licensed radio station in the
U.S. has more than one answer and depends on semantics. Settlement of this
'first' question may hang largely upon what constitutes 'regular' programming.

It is commonly attributed to KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which in
October 1920 received its license and went on the air as the first US
licensed commercial broadcasting station. (Their engineer Frank Conrad had
been broadcasting from his own station since 1916.) Technically, KDKA was
the first of several already-extant stations to receive a 'limited commercial'
license.

On February 17, 1919, station 9XM at the University of Wisconsin in Madison
broadcast human speech to the public at large. 9XM was first experimentally
licensed in 1914, began regular Morse code transmissions in 1916, and its
first music broadcast in 1917. Regularly scheduled broadcasts of voice and
music began in January 1921. That station is still on the air today as WHA.

On August 20, 1920, at least two months before KDKA, E.W. Scripps's WBL
(now WWJ) in Detroit started broadcasting.

There is the history noted above of Charles David Herrold's radio services
(eventually KCBS) going back to 1909.
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So first define "broadcasting".

Mine is a station with a license with a target of the general public and
a regular schedule.



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Jim Pennino

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