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Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007
When the 1st non stop radio & television broadcasting where introduced?
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Good question, radio, I don't know. I know here in Pittsburgh, WDTV on channel 3 which became KDKA-TV on channel 2 did broadcast 24 hours. They showed movies at night called "Swing Shift Theater" because at that time, Pittsburgh was an industrial city, famous for steel. There were many people who worked at night and/or were awake at night and slept during the day so we had a market for viewers. I think Channel 11, WIIC, now WPXI, signed off too, I'm not sure. Channel 4, WTAE-TV did as well as Channel 13/16 which were PBS then.
WDTV went on the air in late 1948 or early 1949.