Radio History

  • marcony

    marcony
    Italian inventor sent and Received first radio signal
  • audio tube

    audio tube
    lee de forest created the audition tube a vocuum that amplified signals.
  • Radio Stations

    Radio Stations
    8Xk, later renamed KDKA frank Conrad Still Around Today Broadcasting out of Pittsburg Pennsylvania
  • The dawn of advertising

    The dawn of advertising
    weaf aired a 10 minute comercial or toll broadcast for an aparment complex charging 50$
  • FRC

    FRC
    uncle charlie was too popularassigning radio frequencies call letters and power limits
  • golden era

    golden era
    niddle of the great depression
    everyone listenend to the radio
  • radio demise

    radio demise
    tv makes appearance
    advestisers went to tv
  • woodstock

    it was 3 days of peace and muscic to wich ended up being a huge festival up to 500,000 people arrived
  • iceberg straight ahead

    the radio imapcted the titanic alot because if it wasnt for radio waves they would of not know the titanic was sinking and because of it it saved lots of people
  • Call letters

    w is east of the missippi river
    k is the west of missipi
  • radio progression

    talk on am
    major edwin armstrong invented transmitter which made for stronger signal
    music on fm
  • why music

    at this time you had only a few options like jukeboxes
    records live concerts, music on the radio filled a void
  • radio vs everything else

    now a days theres so many ways that can we listen to music without the radio so the radio had problems becouse of it