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Marconi
Italian Inventor
Sent and Recieved first Radio signal -
Audion Tube
Lee De Forest, created the audion tube , a vacuu tube that amplified signals -
Colonel Robert McCormick
Floyd Phillips Gibbons was the war correspondent for the Chicago Tribune during World War I. One of radio's first news reporters and commentators, he was famous for a fast-talking delivery style. -
KDKA
8XK,later renamed KDKA
Frank Conrad
Still around today broadcasting out of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania -
The dawning of Advertising
WEAF aored a 10 minute 'commercial' or toll broadcast, for an apartment complex charging 50$ -
FRC
Uncle Charlie was too popular
Established FRC in 1927
Organize the licensing of transmitters assigning radio sation frequencies, call letters. and power limits -
Radio's Demise
TV makes appearance in the late 30's
-As popularity grew, Advertisers went to TV
-Radio lost money, rado shows jumped ship -
Golden Era radio
The entire family could enjoy it together
Big Band/story hour/situational comedies/dramas -
Famous Shows or the Golden Era
Amos and Andy
Gunsmake
The Shadow
Our Miss Brooks
Superman
Dick Tracey
Little orhpan Annie -
Radio's Progression
Major Edwin Armstrong invented the FM transmitter, which made for a stronger signal and higer quality sound.
Talk on the AM
Music on the FM -
Rock'n'Roll
the first wave of music that originated in the US in the 1950s and would later develop into the more encompassing international style known as "rock music", -
Pandora
One of the first online streaming websites
