[BC] Another history question

[Donna Halper]

>Wille asked--
>
>Which boils down to the original question: Who got on, first?

Famous First Facts agrees with me and gives it to 8MK (today WWJ)-- it was 
on the air with a regular schedule on 20 August 1920 and dedicated the 
studios on 31 August.  I have the microfilm of newspaper reports.  I have 
anecdotal evidence to support 1XE (later WGI), including the eye-witness 
account of a reporter (Lewis Whitcomb) who went on to become program 
director at a station that was in direct competition with WGI but even when 
he was their competitor, he continued to tell everyone that WGI had been on 
the air *at least* two months prior to the famous KDKA first 
broadcast.  XWA in Montreal (later CFCF) was on the air in December 1919.