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The Pittsburgh station licensed on 27 October 1920 broadcasts the Harding–Cox election returns, playing phonograph music into the microphone between the results. It is conventionally counted the first commercially licensed American broadcasting station, though other claimants exist. By 1922 there were more than five hundred American stations, and music had acquired a distribution channel that required no shop, no purchase and no proximity to a musician.

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  1. Story
  2. The Pittsburgh station licensed on 27 October 1920 broadcasts the Harding–Cox election returns, playing phonograph music into the microphone between the results. It is conventionally counted the first commercially licensed American broadcasting station, though other claimants exist. By 1922 there were more than five hundred American stations, and music had acquired a distribution channel that required no shop, no purchase and no proximity to a musician.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Sound recording
  5. Radio diffusion
  6. KDKA broadcasts
  7. Connections
  8. Radio diffusion
  9. Sound recording
  10. Sound recording
  11. KDKA broadcasts
  12. Electrical recording
  13. Race records
  14. Radio diffusion
  15. Field recording
  16. Edison demonstrates recorded and reproduced sound
  17. Berliner patents the gramophone
  18. The first jazz record is made
  19. KDKA broadcasts
  20. Victor and Columbia adopt electrical recording
  21. The Kumasi Trio record in London
  22. Evidence
  23. KDKA was licensed on 27 October 1920 and broadcast the Harding–Cox election returns on 2 November 1920, playing phonograph music between results; more than five hundred American stations were operating by 1922. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary across reference and engineering-history sources; none was opened, and the claim to be the first such station is disputed by other claimants.
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