Website Title: U.S. History
Page Title: Radio Fever
Website Address: https://www.ushistory.org/us/46g.asp
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Date Published: September 8, 2013
On the night of November 2, 1920, Frank Conrad and his Westinghouse associates announced that Harding had defeated Cox to become the next President. The message was heard as far north as New Hampshire and as far south as Louisiana. The federal government granted the call letters KDKA to the Pittsburgh station and a new industry was born.