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US Navy adopts "Broadcasting"
US Navy starts using broadcasting to describe radio communication between ships out at sea during WW1. Cutler, L. C. T. J. (2019, August 30). Talking between ships. U.S. Naval Institute. https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2017/august/talking-between-ships#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20Navy’s%20use%20of,and%20among%20hunter%2Dkiller%20groups. -
Radio Act of 1927
Hover then Secretary of US Food Administration commerces, came up with four main rules all radio broadcasts should abide by. Which allowed the "Big 3" to follow. Hamilton, D. E., David E. Hamilton Associate Professor of History
University of Kentucky, Hamilton, D. E., & Associate Professor of History
University of Kentucky. (2023, August 28). Herbert Hoover: Life before the presidency. Miller Center. https://millercenter.org/president/hoover/life-before-the-presidency -
The Big 3 are created
NBC (1926)and CBS(1927) are created. Because of the Radio Act during the same year. NBC and CBS took off. NBC had two national broadcasts the red and blue. In 1941 the US government determined that it was bad for them to have a monopoly so they sold the Blue Network. Which became ABC. Creating the Big 3 to dominate the Golden Age of TV. HandWiki. (2022, October 8). Big Three TV networks. Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/28420 -
The Communications Act of 1934
The Communications Act of 1934 created laws and regulations for all forms of communication usage from telephone to radio. It has allowed the US government to balance out the monopoly of communication and make sure licenses and correct regulations are followed for all public communication The Communications Act of 1934. Bureau of Justice Assistance. (n.d.). https://bja.ojp.gov/program/it/privacy-civil-liberties/authorities/statutes/1288 -
WW2; US Government uses the Big 3 to help spread good word on the War Effort
With TVs not widespread yet. Every American would gather around radios to hear updates about the war effort in the Pacific and Europe/Africa. Rosevelt's Fire Side Chats made more and more Americans feel better than they otherwise would have during those terrible years. Public Broadcasting Service. (n.d.). Communication: News & censorship. PBS. https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-war/communication-news-censorship -
Live Programing on TV becomes the big new hit
After TVs became widely available for Americans, TV shows began to take off in popularity with it's down to Earth characters and being filmed live. Lucy living an average post WW2 life resigned with a lot of Americans, especially women. Landay, Lori. “Millions ‘Love Lucy’: Commodification and the Lucy Phenomenon.” NWSA Journal, vol. 11, no. 2, 1999, pp. 25–47. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4316654. Accessed 2 Feb. 2024.