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WRYT in Pittsburgh is today’s WPGP, a Salem Media Group conservative-talk station.
Pioneering KQV Radio in Pittsburgh is going off the air at the end of the year. The station dates back to an amateur radio station in 1919. Here are earlier entries about KQV.
Here are other entries about Pittsburgh’s legendary KDKA Radio.
It looks like Johnny Boyer enjoyed a career in sports broadcasting. Here’s a 1954 picture of him interviewing Jackie Robinson. It’s hard to find much about him. Do you know anything about Boyer?
Read more about KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh and its historic first broadcast. CBS Radio now owns KDKA.
Here are earlier entries about Pittsburgh’s KDKA-TV.
KDKA-TV started as DuMont Television Network’s WDTV in 1949. In 1954, Westinghouse bought the station from DuMont, renaming after Westinghouse’s legendary radio station, KDKA-AM. The new owner made KDKA-TV a primary CBS affiliate in 1955.
After carrying secondary affiliations with NBC and ABC, it became a full-time CBS affiliate in 1957.
Here are earlier entries about Pittsburgh’s WIIC-TV, today’s WPXI-TV.
