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Invention of the Printing Press
Invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1456. Led to the printing of Bibles and other books. -
First Newspaper
First regularly published newspaper was England's Oxford Gazette -
First American Newspaper
First American Newspaper was Publick Occurrences both Forreign and Domestick -
Penny Press
The New York Sun founded by Benjamin Day was able to print 5,000 copies a day and sell them for only 1 cent -
The Boom of Journalism
The New York Herald was the first newspaper that was most like the newspapers we have today -
New York Times
The New York Times was founded -
Detection of First Radio Waves
Heinrich Hertz of Germany sent and detected the first radio waves -
Yellow Journalism
In the mid-1890s news began to be very exaggerated and publishers of newspapers used the publications for their own use. -
Invention of Wireless Device
Guglielmo Marconi, who is usually credited with inventing the radio, built a wireless device that could transmit Morse code. -
The Birth of Real Investigators
The birth of real investigative reporting happened in the early 1900s -
First Broadcast of Music
Reginald Fessenden makes first broadcast of music to ships in New York harbor on Christmas -
First Radio Station
Frank Conrad started broadcasting at the first radio station in Pittsburgh and he didn't intend to gather an audience -
Federal Radio Commission
The Radio Act establishes the Federal Radio Commission to clean up chaos -
Beginnings of TV
Philo Farnsworth did the first wireless broadcast -
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TV's Big Impact
Radio lost many of its best performers to TV -
TV Grew Fast in Popularity
It went from 8 stations and 8,000 homes to almost 100 stations and 35 million homes from 1945-1955 -
Camel News Caravan
Began this year with Camel News Caravan on NBC with host John Cameron Swayze -
Beginning of Today Show
1952 was the beginning of the Today show which was the first of the "magazine" TV shows. -
First Color Broadcast
The first color broadcast was the Tournament of Roses Parade -
Lots of TVs
95% of homes had televisions in the 60s -
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Station Specialization
Radio stations specialized to: Country, religious, political, or sports -
More Color TVs
Color TVs outsell black and white TVs for the first time in 1972 -
Big Three Become Big Four
Fox Network becomes part of the Big Three to make it the Big Four -
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Digital Era
New options like internet, satellite, and HD radio
