What was the first us radio station named?

Answer 1

Actually we may never know. There where some attempts to broadcast entertainment as early as 1910. Previously to that Marconi had installed radios on several ships, but they where of the Morse type, meant to have only one receiver.

The general public had to construct their own radios, since búying them was very expensive (could cost up to 3 weeks of wages). Fortuneatly building a simple crystal-radio could be done for schollboys wages. 2 or three components where nedded plus the obligatory 800 ohms (or so) headphones. The most important components was a catwhisker of coiled wire and a piece of Galena crystal that could be easily found in a slag-heap of any lead mine. No batteries where required since the power came from the signal itself, therefore the 800 or so ohms headphones.

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Answer 2

This is very much in dispute. Some sources say 8MK (later known as WWJ) in Detroit. Others say 1XE (later known as WGI) of Medford Hillside MA. And many textbooks say it was KDKA in Pittsburgh. KDKA was owned by a large corporation and had an excellent publicity department, making it easy for them to spread their claim of being first. But the truth is that we may never really know, since we lack any audio recordings (tape had not been invented yet) and we only have the claims of the various station owners, along with some newspaper reports about their stations' achievements.

By those standards, we know that 8MK was on the air in late August 1920 (owned by a newspaper, the Detroit News), while KDKA did not take to the air till early November 1920. The wildcard is little 1XE, which may have been on the air before both of them (according to some newspaper mentions), but whose files and archival records were destroyed in a fire, leaving us little way to verify when they began to keep a regular schedule.

Answer 3

This is very much in dispute. Some sources say 8MK (later known as WWJ) in Detroit. Others say 1XE (later known as WGI) of Medford Hillside MA. And many textbooks say it was KDKA in Pittsburgh. KDKA was owned by a large corporation and had an excellent publicity department, making it easy for them to spread their claim of being first. But the truth is that we may never really know, since we lack any audio recordings (tape had not been invented yet) and we only have the claims of the various station owners, along with some newspaper reports about their stations' achievements.

By those standards, we know that 8MK was on the air in late August 1920 (owned by a newspaper, the Detroit News), while KDKA did not take to the air till early November 1920. The wildcard is little 1XE, which may have been on the air before both of them (according to some newspaper mentions), but whose files and archival records were destroyed in a fire, leaving us little way to verify when they began to keep a regular schedule

Answer 4

The first radio station to receive a commercial broadcast license was WBZ (today in Boston, Massachusetts, but then out in Springfield, in western Massachusetts). The license was issued in mid-September of 1921.

Answer 5

The first sponsor, and hence commercial - according to AT&T - came from the Queensboro Corporation of New York, to sell real estate.