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Invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1456. Led to the printing of Bibles and other books.
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First regularly published newspaper was England's Oxford Gazette
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First American Newspaper was Publick Occurrences both Forreign and Domestick
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The New York Sun founded by Benjamin Day was able to print 5,000 copies a day and sell them for only 1 cent
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The New York Herald was the first newspaper that was most like the newspapers we have today
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The New York Times was founded
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Heinrich Hertz of Germany sent and detected the first radio waves
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In the mid-1890s news began to be very exaggerated and publishers of newspapers used the publications for their own use.
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Guglielmo Marconi, who is usually credited with inventing the radio, built a wireless device that could transmit Morse code.
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The birth of real investigative reporting happened in the early 1900s
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Reginald Fessenden makes first broadcast of music to ships in New York harbor on Christmas
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Frank Conrad started broadcasting at the first radio station in Pittsburgh and he didn't intend to gather an audience
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The Radio Act establishes the Federal Radio Commission to clean up chaos
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Philo Farnsworth did the first wireless broadcast
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Radio lost many of its best performers to TV
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It went from 8 stations and 8,000 homes to almost 100 stations and 35 million homes from 1945-1955
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Began this year with Camel News Caravan on NBC with host John Cameron Swayze
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1952 was the beginning of the Today show which was the first of the "magazine" TV shows.
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The first color broadcast was the Tournament of Roses Parade
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95% of homes had televisions in the 60s
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Radio stations specialized to: Country, religious, political, or sports
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Color TVs outsell black and white TVs for the first time in 1972
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Fox Network becomes part of the Big Three to make it the Big Four
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New options like internet, satellite, and HD radio
