Radio & Television History Timeline

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  • Guglielmo Marconi wireless telegraphy

    Guglielmo Marconi wireless telegraphy
    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.

  • Reginald Fessenden

    Reginald Fessenden
    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.

  • Wireless Telegraphy on Ships

    Wireless Telegraphy on Ships
    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

  • Broadcast Human Speech

    Broadcast Human Speech
    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.

  • First Radio News Brodcast

    First Radio News Brodcast
    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.

  • First Transistorized Radio

    First Transistorized Radio
    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.

  • Color Television

    Color Television
    By 1963, color television was being broadcasted although all programs were not avaliablke in color.

  • Internet Radio

    Internet Radio
    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.¨

  • First Internet-only Radio Network

    First Internet-only Radio Network
    In 1995, Scott Bourne founded NetRadio.com as the first Internet-only radio network. It has become a pioneer in Interent Radio.

  • Webcasters governed by rules

    Webcasters governed by rules
    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.