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Voices in the Wire

99% Invisible

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KDKA of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company

KDKA was the first radio station to broadcast presidential election returns. Station launched on November 2, 1920 in a wooden shack at Westinghouse plant. No recordings of that broadcast but original announcer Leah Rosenberg made this recreation.

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