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Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi Was an Italian inventor who provided the accessibility of radio communication. He sent out the first radio signal in Italy in 1985. Then in 1899, he sent out the first wireless signal across the English Channel. Two years later he then received the letter “S” telegraph from England to Newfoundland. This was the first successful transit to radio telegraph messages back in 1902. -
Progressivism vs. radio amateurs
Radios were big.However they were so big that this created a divide in people as clashes between progressives the people who wanted to use the radio to help create something better and radio amateurs who wanted to use the radio for communication constantly clashed with each other, in 1912 a radio act was passed that created a licensing system that gave priority to military and big businesses.This made it a lot harder for people who weren’t either the military or the upper class to use the radio. -
Creation of RCA in 1919
After World War I, the US loved the idea of keeping the radio so much that they would. They wanted to keep control of the radio. This is when the government supported a monopoly called the RCA, which was created as a way to maintain control of the radio. This was US-owned and operated and operated as a patent pool where companies would share the radio in exchange for controlling a specific hardware or technology. The main partners of this were GE and Weston House which were the receivers. -
Early Commercial Broadcasting
After the creation of the RCA, GE Weston house and all the partners involved in it took over the radio. Revenue was generated through sales of radio and the programming on the radio was developed to encourage sales. The radio was also very powerful, being able to broadcast from places as far away as Chicago from Pittsburgh. People were also able to broadcast through pursued broadcasting where airtime would be available to anyone willing to pay. -
The beginning of Television’s Golden Age
Radio finally started to gain a lot more popularity with the American people. With most people at the time, having some form of entertainment, radio or television, with the very beginning of this golden age, right after World War II, returning home from the war, television started to get a huge boom and popularity. Things such as ad agencies producing sponsored shows to help sell your products to networks, distributing, and stations, such as NBC and CBS helping to distribute. -
The Golden Age television Industry
Business exploded. TV in the 1950s is now more popular than ever and the golden age is finally starting to get its feet off the ground. Sponsorships were a huge part of the Golden Age industry. With sponsors paying agencies that pay networks to sell the agencies. Big companies would produce a show that was based on a product that they had so that they could mass market and sell that product to millions of people. Thus began the golden age of television. -
the main synopsis of your timeline
I decided to cover the timeline of radio from when it first began to when it became really popular in the golden age. I started with Guglielmo Marconi, the creator of the radio who sent it out in 1902. Then I covered the three main key events That helped in the formation of radios. The progressives and amateurs, the creation of the RCA, and the birth of commercial broadcast modules. Then I covered the very beginning and middle of television's golden age. That is what I covered.