The FCC history cards start at 1927 but there is a mention of previous station deferred. The FCC also states the license was issued 01/12.1922. When did they really start? Did they "share" their frequency with stations in Pittsburgh? If so who got days? Did they start with KQV call letters? There are not that many "K"s east of the Mississippi much less a 3 call letter "K"s. KYW has 50KW how did a three call letter station end up with only on 5 KW on an old regional channel.
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Shared time back then was not "days" and "nights". Perhaps the most famous sharing was WFAA and WBAP in Dallas / Fort Worth. In that case, they alternated blocks of hours throughout the day. Of course, prime time for radio back then was after 6 PM, just as it is for television in the modern era.
The 1919 date that KQV claims is somewhat specious. As I recall, it's based on an amateur radio license, 8ZAE, run by the owners of the Doubleday Radio Shop.
While 8ZAE certainly did some things we'd recognize now as "broadcasting" (operating on a schedule, playing music), so did lots of amateur operators after WW I, including Frank Conrad's 8XK, the ancestor of KDKA.
I've never seen a really clear timeline of 8ZAE's operation between 1919 and the grant of the actual KQV license in 1922, but I don't believe it was anywhere near as active in the rapid development of actual "broadcasting" as we'd later understand it, at least as compared to what was happening at KDKA, KYW, WJZ, WHA and the handful of other pioneers from before the 1922 boom.
While 8ZAE certainly did some things we'd recognize now as "broadcasting" (operating on a schedule, playing music), so did lots of amateur operators after WW I, including Frank Conrad's 8XK, the ancestor of KDKA.
I've never seen a really clear timeline of 8ZAE's operation between 1919 and the grant of the actual KQV license in 1922, but I don't believe it was anywhere near as active in the rapid development of actual "broadcasting" as we'd later understand it, at least as compared to what was happening at KDKA, KYW, WJZ, WHA and the handful of other pioneers from before the 1922 boom.
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