Despite the Detroit New's claims, it's not clear if it really was first newspaper closely affiliated with a radio station that was broadcasting to the general public. For example, in early 1920 DeForest's 2XG operated in conjunction with the New York World, and a biography of DeForest that appeared in Radio News in 1925 mentions that in early 1920 DeForest had set up a transmitter for the Toronto Courier. Also, about this this time 2IA, an amateur station making broadcasts in Jersey City, New Jersey, was affiliated with the Jersey Review.
 
Printers' Ink, May 23, 1922, page 143:
 
The Pioneer in Radio
          
First  is  a  word  most  cautiously  used  by
The  Detroit  News,  for  to  be  first  in  any
field  of  newspaper  endeavor  is  to  lead
a  host  of  competitors  of  excellence  scarcely
less  meriting  the  title.

    But  in  the  field  of  RADIO,  The  Detroit
News,  by  virtue  of  its  early  advent  and  long
period  of  promotion,  must  lay  claim  to  the
title  of  FIRST.

    In  August,  1920,  The  Detroit  News  installed
the  first  transmitting  set  in  use  by  any  news-
paper.  It  shortly  began  to  broadcast  phono-
graph  concerts  to  local  radio  enthusiasts.

    In  the  summer  of  1921  it  moved  its  radio
plant  into  a  specially  built  sound  proof  labora-
tory  and  auditorium  erected  at  an  expense  of
$75,000.  A  corps  of  radio  experts  was  placed
in  charge.  The  radio  staff  now  has  a  personnel
of  seven  men.

    Through  its  own  columns  during  1920  and
1921,  The  Detroit  News  promoted  radio  inter-
est  and  when  it  began  to  send  regular  prepared
programs  which  were  heard  in  all  parts  of  the
middle  west,  the  number  of  radio  sets  quickly
multiplied  by  the  thousands.

    The  greatest  impetus  to  radio  enthusiasm
was  given  by  the  broadcasting  of  Detroit  Sym-
phony  Orchestra  Concerts  under  the  lead  of
the  noted  Gabrilowitsch.  These  concerts  have
been  heard  in  all  parts  of  the  United  States,
Northwest  Canada,  Cuba  and  Central  America.
Thousands  of  letters  and  subscribers  testify  to
the  far  reaching  influence  of  Detroit  News  sta-
tion  W.  W.  J.		          


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