Non-musical history for today: 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducted the first live football game broadcast. Beginning with the introduction of licensing in late 1912, the standard practice had been to assign call letters starting with "W" to radio stations east of the Mississippi River. However, KDKA received its assignment during a short period when land stations were being issued call letters from a sequential block of "K" call letters that had previously been assigned only to ship stations. Although the original policy was restored a few months later, KDKA was permitted to keep its non-standard call sign. This is why it is a "K" station but east of the Mississippi River.

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