Tape Splicer wrote:Here is the statement on the page ... " This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it." By clicking on "expand" a new page opens where "editing" can be done. (I'll leave it to someone with better eyesight to do the "expanding".
Having been a party to this discussion of "first radio stations" since the mid-1960s, the one thing I have learned is that the "correct" answer seems to be harder, not easier, to determine as the years pass. As a little Googling will tell you, Westinghouse tried to make the answer simple by a lot of "semantic arguments" that would make a lawyer proud. The answer always came out KDKA in Pittsburgh which, of course, is what Westinghouse PR staff were paid to do.
I threw my hands up in the air and gave up on coming up with a definitive answer in my lifetime after the 2006 100th anniversary celebrations for Reginald Fessenden's first radio broadcast (or was it? see the link). If you follow the two links in last month's Today in Broadcast History, you can see the difficulty of determining just this one claim, let alone the hundreds of radio broadcasters over the next 16 years -- 1922 was when stations were fully licensed in Canada and we can find ample documentation on stations like CJCA in Edmonton.
http://rwcrn.com/broadcast-history-sunday-july-22 (first paragraph, especially the two links)
On a personal note, I should note that, in 2006, I completely accepted the "it didn't happen" arguments of the second link. But rebuttals have since been published that make me realize just how difficult this one incident is to verify or discredit, and I now admit, in my mind that the whole thing is close to 50/50 as to whether it is true.