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History of Radio

  • 1898 the first wireless telegraph news paper message

  • 1903 radios first news broadcast

  • 1912 regulating the radio industry

    required licence for most priviate radios
  • 1917-1919 private radios shut down

  • 1922 "broadcasting boom"

  • 1927 a second national network formed

  • 1928-1929 ten minute news casts

  • 1931 "The University of Chicago Roundtable" broadcast by NBC

  • 1933 two thirds of americans own a radio

  • 1934 radio industry into a handful of large corporations.

  • 1939-1945 covered daily events of WW2

  • 1945 started interviewing celebs

  • early 1960's all talk radios

  • 1970 national public radio