-
K.F. Braun invents the cathode-ray tube.
-
Reginald Fessenden invents wireless telephony, It means for radio waves to carry signals a significant distance for hearing.
-
The Radio Act of 1912 assigns three and four letter codes to radio stations and limits broadcasting to the 360m wavelength, which jams signals.
-
KDKA, a Pittsburgh Westinghouse station, transmits the first commercial radio broadcast.
-
Reacting to problems posed by the Radio Act of 1912, the Commerce Department allows powerful stations to use the 400m wavelength as long as they only broadcast live music.
-
Russian immigrant Vladimir Kosma Zworykin patents the iconoscope, the first television transmission tube. He patents the first color tube in 1925. A.C. Nielsen Company is founded and provides measurements of radio audiences for advertisers.
-
Radio's The Smith Family introduces the soap opera format.
-
RCA, General Electric and Westinghouse establish NBC, which operates two national radio networks.
-
CBS is founded by William S. Paley.
-
There are nearly 40,000 television sets in the United States; 9,000 of them are in New York City alone.
-
The Communications Act of 1934 creates the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates broadcasting.
-
Robert Kane introduces the Batman cartoon.
-
CBS demonstrates color television in New York. WNBT, the first regularly operating television station
-
The Yankees beat the Dodgers in seven games in the first televised World Series.
-
The first Emmy Awards are handed out on January 25
