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Old 28th Jul 2010, 9:55 am   #1
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Default Recording of 1st broadcast from KDKA Pittsburgh

KDKA claims to be the worlds oldest broadcast radio station* - it's first broadcast having been on 2 November 1920. On the station's website is a recording of part of that transmission, presumably an acoustic gramophone(phonograph)record, since, AFAIK, no other method of recording exsisted 90 years ago(unless anyone else knows otherwise!)
*On air more than 2 years before 2LO.
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Old 28th Jul 2010, 10:04 am   #2
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If you're playing the "who was first" game then you need to define your terms pretty carefully. Fessenden ran a sort of broadcasting station in 1906 using an Alexanderson alternator.
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First scheduled public service?
First broadcast of a live performance?
First station broadcast for public reception other than a test?

Some thoughts without much checking or research:
http://www.wattystuff.net/amateur/oldbroadcast.htm

Possibly partly from http://www.oldradio.com/archives/international/

Canada seems to be first Scheduled broadcasts for public.
Germany or UK may have transmitted first performances.

KDKA seems to be first station issued a licence to Broadcast.

It's inevitable that when something new starts it's a while till Governments notice and start insisting on Licences.
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Is Ireland unique in having a TV reception licence 18months before any Irish TV service?
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Old 28th Jul 2010, 7:45 pm   #4
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Default Re: Recording of 1st broadcast from KDKA Pittsburgh

The information I quoted in my post # 1, including the date of the first broadcast, was taken from KDKA's own website. The programme was abulletin about the 1920 U.S. Presidential election. I hadn't looked at the 'oldradio.com' website, or anywhere else for that matter, but I did know about Fessenden's 1906 transmissions
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Old 28th Jul 2010, 9:40 pm   #5
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No worries

I wonder was it phonograph (Cylinder?) or gramophone (Disc always). Magnetic recording seems to be unlikely rather than impossible.

Early (Tape not wire?) Tape recorder pre 1937, original design 1930?
http://www.24listen.net/D_i1mmv5-Fg/...recorder-1939/

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Valdemar Poulsen was Danish telephone engineer and inventor, best known for his Telegraphone, which he patented in 1898. It was the first practical apparatus for magnetic sound recording and reproduction. It recorded, on a wire, the varying magnetic fields produced by a sound. The magnetized wire could then be used to play back the sound.
http://profiles.incredible-people.com/valdemar-poulsen/
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