first publicized broadcast, consisting of phonograph records. This garnered national attention, and a wire service report quoted Gates as predicting that nationwide broadcasts "will be an innovation of the near future". The programming offered over 8XB gradually expanded, with a more powerful transmitter constructed in early 1920. A June report stated that the station would provide entertainment for an outing of the Morse Mutual Benefit Association of Telegraphers at Coney Island, including broadcasting a band performance, a speech, baseball scores and other news. At the end of October, a special program playing the latest Victor phonograph records was sponsored by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company. In early November the station made an election night broadcast, participating with Westinghouse's broadcast of returns from East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania over station 8ZZ (now KDKA), which included playing Victor records for entertainment. In July 1921 it was reported that Breckel was presenting concerts on Monday and Wednesday nights "by means of a phonograph and player-piano". The following November the Baldwin Piano Company announced that it was presenting piano concerts on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday evenings in conjunction with Precision Equipment, and that "Hundreds of Wireless Stations within a radius of 300 miles may enjoy these concerts." WMH Initially there were no formal standards for radio stations making broadcasts for the general public, and a variety of stations, most operating under Experimental or Amateur station licenses, conducted broadcasts on a regular schedule. On December 1, 1921, the U.S. Department of Commerce, which regulated radio at this time, adopted the first regulation formally establishing a broadcasting station category, which set aside the wavelength of 360 meters (833 kHz) for entertainment broadcasts, and 485 meters (619 kHz) for market and weather reports. On December 30, 1921, Precision Equipment received one of the new broadcasting licenses, with the randomly assigned callsign WMH, which was the first issued for the state of Ohio. The single shared entertainment wavelength of 360 meters meant that stations within a given region had to make timesharing agreements to assign operating timeslots. As of August 7, 1922, WMH's programming ran from 8:15-10:00 p.m, while the second station licensed in Cincinnati, the Crosley Manufacturing Company's WLW, was scheduled from 1-3 p.m. During its short existence the Precision Equipment Company's most prominent customer was industrialist Powel Crosley Jr., who visited the store on February 22, 1921, interested in buying a radio receiver for his son, only to balk