Millions read the election results in the newspapers the next day.
In the Pittsburgh area, however, hundreds heard the election returns the moment they were wired in, thanks to Dr. Frank Conrad, a Westinghouse employee, who broadcast the results over 8XK, his amateur station. He urged the financial backers of the deForest Wireless Telegraph Company to develop and patent the concept. Undaunted, deForest in 1907 formed the deForest Radio Telephone Company. Some day the news and even advertising will be sent out over the wireless telephone. Despite deForest's intense interest in this area, he was not the first to broadcast the human voice and music over the airwaves.