Editing Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania (section)

===Home of modern broadcasting===
[[File:Frank Conrad radio station 8XK 1920.jpg|thumb|Frank Conrad radio station 8XK 1920]]

Modern [[broadcasting]] as known in its current form began when Wilkinsburg resident [[Frank Conrad]] spearheaded a radio laboratory at his home, coordinated with [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation]] and the [[Signal Corps (United States Army)|United States Signal Corps]], under a special [[World War I|war time]] permit (using call signs 2-WM and 2-WE).<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/radioindustrysto00harvrich#page/191/mode/1up "The Early History of Broadcasting in the United States"] by H. P. Davis, included in ''The Radio Industry: The Story of Its Development'', 1928, pages 191-192.</ref> After moving from [[Swissvale, Pennsylvania|Swissvale]] to Wilkinsburg, Conrad installed a radio station on the top floor of his backyard two-story garage, with a microphone, where he worked into the wee hours of the morning, eventually resulting in the development of modern broadcasting, as [[do it yourself]] listeners who had made their own [[crystal radio]] sets began to respond, some quite enthused by the music broadcast when Frank Conrad coupled a phonograph to radio. Wilkinsburg thus became the original location for modern broadcasting, combining the concepts of "the station, the audience, the programs, and a means to pay for the programs" after Conrad accepted a donation from a Wilkinsburg music store to promote its musical offerings.<ref>[http://www.nmbpgh.org/conrad_project/historical_background/conrad.htm "Frank Conrad: Sleepless Genius"], National Museum of Broadcasting (nmbpgh.org)</ref> This was all before and leading up to [[KDKA (AM)|KDKA]] and the development of commercial radio.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nmbpgh.org/conrad_project/historical_background/commercial.htm|title = Commercial Broadcasting}}</ref> In 1916, KDKA began broadcasting, as experimental station 8XK, from the Westinghouse plant in East Pittsburgh and in a small garage owned by [[Frank Conrad]], before it was launched with its current call letters on November 2, 1920. In 1923, Wilkinsburg-based [[Russia]]n immigrant [[Vladimir Zworykin]] designed and patented the [[iconoscope]], the photocell "eye" of early television cameras. Today, ABC affiliate [[WTAE-TV]] is located in the borough on Ardmore Boulevard.