Radio History timeline

  • Marconi

    Marconi
    Guglielmo Marrconi built a wireless system capable of transmitting signals at long distances.
  • Trans-Atlantic

    Trans-Atlantic
    Marconi conducts the first successful transatlantic radio communication
  • Radio Audiocast

    Radio Audiocast
    Fessenden uses an Alexanderson alternator and rotary spark plug transmitter to make the first radio audio broadcast
  • First Radio Stations

    First radio news program is broadcasted
  • FM Radio

    FM Radio
    Edwin Armstrong invents FM (frequency modulation) radio. FM provides static free broadcasting
  • Radio Suffers

    The Television makes the radio suffer. radio begins to loclize on only playing records
  • RDS is invented

    Radio can now be heard in the Car, and stationary tuners
  • The Digital Age

    Computers now process the radio signals and Sirius Satellite Radio is founded