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That is a very interesting question, and one that scholars still debate. In Canada, historians would say it was XWA, later known as CFCF, owned by the Marconi Company. It went on the air in late 1919. In the USA, several stations claim to have been first: 8MK in Detroit (later known as WWJ, and still on the air today) was on the air in August 1920, owned by the Detroit News; it was also the first station owned by a newspaper. 1XE (later known as WGI) in Medford Hillside, Massachusetts, seems to have been on the air in the summer of 1920 too; it was owned by the Amrad Company.
And one station that many textbooks insist was the first (although it really wasn't) was KDKA in Pittsburgh, owned by the Westinghouse Company. KDKA went on the air on November 2, 1920. KDKA was very well-funded and well-publicized, and in radio's first year, it had a number of very important accomplishments that other stations could not equal. There were also early stations in Argentina (Radio Argentina, which went on the air in late August 1920), and several other countries had early stations too. And at colleges, there were some stations playing hit songs and doing the news as early as 1912, when Charles "Doc" Herrold and his wife Sybil put a station on the air at the Herrold College of Wireless in San José, California.
It should also be noted that "professional" or "commercial" stations did not exist in those early days. Most stations were run by amateur radio operators, often working for a manufacturer of radio receiving equipment. The first "commercial" license was not issued till mid-September 1921. Contrary to myth, KDKA in Pittsburgh did not get the first professional license-- rather, a sister company, WBZ (then in Springfield MA, today in Boston) received the first commercial license.
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