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The first commercial radio broadcast read election results
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You'd think the debut of mass broadcast technology would feature sweeping music or a profound speech, but no, it was just dudes reading data. On November 2, 1920, KDKA in Pittsburgh made the first commercial radio broadcast in history purely to report the live returns of the Harding-Cox presidential race. Listeners tuned in with massive, bulky receiver sets just to hear a dry voice read off polling numbers for hours.
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