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Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi was the first person to invent the radio. He ssent out and recieved the first radio signal. Marconi accomplished this new invention in 1895. -
The Rise of the Audion Tube
The audion tube waws the most impportant electronic invention that eventualy became useful to radio. Lee De Frost invented the audion or "vacuum" tube in 1906. This new invention was popular because Frost made it were it can amplify signals. -
Wireless Technology
Inventors like Lee de Forest and Reginald Fessenden want to find a wireless substitute for the wired telephone. The human voice could add a nuance to communication not possible with the telegraph. -
Charles Herrold
Between 1912 and 1917 Herrold and his students are broadcasting music and talk on a regular schedule to a growing San Jose audience. College radio. He also broadcasts every day to receiving stations at the Pan Pacific International Exhibition in 1915. -
WWI
The war is important to radio technically as the vacuum tube, invented earlier by de Forest is improved for war communication, and all other radio patents are pooled for defense reasons. -
8XK to KDKA
8XK was the first radio broadcast aired by Frank Conrad. The radio station was later renamed KDKA. After having many listeners, radio was soon going to take flight. -
Conrad and Radio
Conrad’s company, Westinghouse, asks him to go on the air on a regular basis to send out music and they’ll sell radios to pay for the service. They apply for a commercial radio license and in November, 1920, KDKA goes on the air to broadcast the election returns of the Harding-Cox presidential contest. -
Networks and radio
Having broken the AT&T monopoly on “chain broadcasting” NBC and CBS are formed as the first radio networks by the late 1920s. This collaboration became a hit troughout the coumtry. -
First commercial hits
In 1922, a radio station in New York called WEAF radio aired the first advertisement commercial. Producers then knew how to get paid for broadcasting radio, which was through advertising businesses and companies. -
Regulating Radio
The Federal Radio Commission (FRC), was a government body that regulated radio. After the Radio Act of 1912 the Radio Act of 1927 put more power to regulating the radio business and shaped radio to what it is now. -
FCC hits
In 1934, it replaces the FRC and regulates radio. Their mandate is very similar to the old FRC. At the start of the decade they try to clean up the content of broadcast ads and claims, even take a few self-described “radio doctors” off the air. -
Radio amd Performers
The musicians union, trying for even more power refuses to let their musicians perform on radio until new agreements are worked out. Some stations play records of foreign artists not covered by the AF of M. -
Music on Radio
All the big stars and programs and advertisers that made the 1930s and 1940s the “golden age of radio” defect to TV. Radio must localize, play records. -
New kind od radio
Gordon MacClendon, sitting in a restaurant in the mid 1950s, noticed how teens-to-be-soon-to-be-known-as-baby-boomers would always play the same songs over and over again on the jukebox. So he did that with radio. -
The Beatles and Radio
In 1963, just as the AM top 40 stations seemed to be sounding tired, a group of British acts arrived to influence the world music scene. Led by the Beatles and Stones, AM top-40 would rebound because of the new music.
