Good News in History, November 295 years ago on this day, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania started broadcasting as the first commercially licensed radio station in the United States. After building a transmitter for the company, Westinghouse employee Frank Conrad listened as they broadcast the US presidential election returns from a shack on the roof. It was reportedly heard as far away as Canada. (1920)
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