Talk:The Scranton Times-Tribune

No evidence that the Times was the first U.S. newspaper to operate a radio station
I removed the statement that the establishment of radio station WQAN in early 1923 resulted in "thus making the Times the first newspaper in the country to own a radio station" because this is not even remotely true. The Times wasn't even the first Pennsylvania newspaper to operate a radio station, since WQAN was preceded by the Newspaper Printing Company's WPB in Pittsburgh in January 1922 and the Chronicle & News Publishing Co. station, WIAN, in Allentown in July 1922. In addition, "Newspapers Capitalize Radio Craze in Manifold Ways", from the April 22, 1922 Editor & Publisher, reviews the extensive nationwide earlier involvement by newspapers with radio broadcasting.

The Times didn't join the "radio craze" until late November 1922, when it began supplying programming for Scranton station WRAY. At this time the Times itself noted there had been numerous earlier newspapers broadcasting, with its own contemporary report noting that "In taking up broadcasting, The Times aligns itself with a movement that has become general among the more important newspapers of the nation. The Detroit News (WWJ); the Pittsburgh Post and Sun (KDKA); the Atlanta Journal (WSB); the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (KSD); the Louisville Courier-Joutnal and The Louisville Times (WHAS); and the Chicago Herald and Examiner are among the leading newspapers whose broadcastings are on the air daily." ("Times to Broadcast News", November 28, 1922, Scranton Times, page 1.)--Thomas H. White (talk) 19:44, 8 February 2020 (UTC)