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He built the first complete, commercially successful wireless telegraphy system based on airborne Hertzian waves (radio transmission). He demonstrated this application by putting it in the military and marine communication, and then started a company to spread these communcation services.
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On Christmas Eve in 1906, he used a rotary spark transmitter for the first radio program broadcast. This took place in Massachusettes, and ships at sea were able to get the broadcast. This was known as transmisoon of an AM Radio.
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In 1912, the Titanic had sunk in the northern Atlantic ocean, which caused wireless telegraph using spark-gap transmitters being very commonly used on large ships
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On February 17, 1919, station 9XM at the University of Wisconsin broadcasted the first human speech to the public at large. That station is still on air today as WHA.
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The first radio news broadcast was broadcast on August 31, 1920 by the station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan, and it serves as the all news format station WWJ in the ownership of CBS Network.
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In 1955, the newly formed Sony company produced its first transistorized radio. It was small enough to fit in a vest pocket, and it was powered by a battery.
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By 1963, color television was being broadcasted although all programs were not avaliablke in color.
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Internet Radio was developed by Carl Malamud. In 1993, he launched ¨Interenet Talk Radio¨, which was the ¨first computer-radio talk show, each week interviewing a computer expert.¨
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In 1995, Scott Bourne founded NetRadio.com as the first Internet-only radio network. It has become a pioneer in Interent Radio.
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On January 31, 2016, webcasters governed by rules adopted Copyright Royalty Board have to pay SoundExchange an annual and nonrefundable fee of $500 for each channel and station.
