In 1954, Cordic & Company moved to KDKA (AM) on Labor Day, one of the first times that an American radio station had hired a major personality directly from a local competitor.

Popular Bette Smiley had decided to retire from her full-time KDKA wake-up show Radio Gift Shoppe of the Air and move to a Sunday-only condensed version on WCAE in August 1954 in order to raise her young son Robbie.

By the end of his tenure in Pittsburgh, Cordic was reportedly earning $100,000 a year, a huge sum for a radio host at the time.

One of Cordic's most memorable running gags at both WWSW and KDKA were fake advertisements for "Olde Frothingslosh", "the pale stale ale with the foam on the bottom."

In 1955, Pittsburgh Brewing Company began issuing special Christmas-season cans and bottles of Olde Frothingslosh filled with real beer.

[citation needed] Cordic advertised a wide variety of whimsical products on the show, including the Crudley white liner (an automobile that was only 18 inches (460 mm) wide, designed to drive on the white line that divided highways), Mediocre cigarettes in a crush-proof package made of stainless steel, and Cordoco Gasoline (it prevents undependable gas gauge problems by compressing ten gallons into nine).

Cordic also produced a short-lived radio show composed of simulated baseball games, based on a 1620 computer program developed by John Burgeson of the IBM Corporation.

Noodnicron was apparently shaped like a billiard ball, as in one famous skit he was injured while resting on a large green field when suddenly Earth people began to poke him with long sticks and shooting deaf and dumb Jovians at him.

Omicron reportedly helped finish drilling the Fort Pitt tunnel by accidentally flying his saucer through it when incomplete and crashing into the unfinished section and out the other side.

Much of the material mentioned here and more can be heard at the official Cordic web site including some memorable moments on the radio and some of the ads printed locally in Pittsburgh.

Although the cast changed over the years, the main contributors were Sterling Yates, Karl Hardman, Bob Trow, and Charlie Sords.

The flair for Pittsburgh-centered satire, it seems, was difficult for Cordic to import to the more sophisticated Los Angeles radio market, despite the successes of similar personalities like Jim Hawthorne.

While he lived in Los Angeles, Cordic regularly flew back to Pittsburgh to tape segments for WTAE-TV's Sunday Afternoon Movie, giving detailed background information about the films presented.

Over the years, he appeared several times on Gunsmoke, and also had roles in Kung Fu, Nichols, Columbo, Rockford Files, Barnaby Jones, The Waltons, and McCloud, among many others.