Image
Radio Station KDKA broadcasting election results for the Harding-Cox presidential election, Pittsburgh, PA, November 4, 1920.
Credit: Image donated by Corbis-Bettmann
On the evening of November 4, 1920, KDKA Radio attracted national attention when it became the first radio station to broadcast the returns of a presidential election. It did so from a makeshift shack atop one of the Westinghouse buildings in East Pittsburgh.