Mitchell Stephens, Beyond News: The Future of Journalism (Columbia University Press, 2014) p56 The Westinghouse Electric Company, owner of KDKA, had been transmitting instructions for two weeks before the election "Radio Phones to Flash Election Vote in Danville", Washington Herald, November 2, 1920, p12 With Leo Rosenberg as the anchorman for the broadcast Ed Salamon, Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Radio (Arcadia Publishing, 2010) p7 , the results could be picked up by wireless receivers within a 500 miles radius of Pittsburgh "Will Use Wireless— Election Returns to be Sent Out From Pittsburgh", South Bend (IN) Tribune, November 2, 1920, p5 Although KDKA would be the lone U.S. radio station for ten months, 30 stations would be broadcasting by 1922 and over 500 by 1924.