rpw3@fortune.UUCP (03/22/84)
#R:utcsrgv:-338600:fortune:6700035:000:1296 fortune!rpw3 Mar 21 23:48:00 1984 +-------------------- | The first commercial radio station in north america was station | CFCF in Montreal. It was followed by KDKA in Pittsburgh. | | Lee Dickey, University of Waterloo. (ljdickey@watmath.UUCP) | ...!allegra!watmath!ljdickey | ...!ucbvax!decvax!watmath!ljdickey +-------------------- Gee... somebody ought to tell KCBS (San Francisco) that. They have been LOUDLY proclaiming themselves the first commercial broadcast station all year. Seems it's their 75th birthday this year (they started in San Jose in 1909) and they're letting everybody know it. Maybe the difference is in the word "broadcast"? Many of the early stations (possibly CFCF and KDKA?) were not "broadcast" stations, in the sense that you had to buy THEIR receivers from THEM to listen (shades of cable-TV decoders!). Maybe KCBS was the first "broadcast" station (supported by advertising and subscription, not by radio sales). Rob p.s. Surely KDKA is WKDA these days, no? p.p.s KCBS is the CBS Network's West Coast flagship station. Surely they checked their references. ------------- Rob Warnock UUCP: {sri-unix,amd70,hpda,harpo,ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!rpw3 DDD: (415)595-8444 USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065