Play-by-Play 'Body Slams'

From Bill Mercer -- Excerpt 2 of 3 from Bill Mercer's book, "Play by Play" -- The first professional wrestling match was broadcast on a radio station in Wichita, Kansas, in 1922. That wrestling debut followed KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the first station to broadcast regularly after it was licensed in November 1920. Before KDKA was licensed, its founder was playing music on a little transmitter in his garage. The Westinghouse Corporation discovered as many as a thousand people were listening daily to his music on their simple crystal receivers. In 1920, Westinghouse signed on KDKA, and the first regular broadcast was the reporting of the presidential election returns. Radio excitement was growing all over the country, and in 1922, several hundred stations had been licensed across the country. All of the stations shared the same and only frequency, 833 kHz.
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