History of Radio

  • Marconi

    Marconi

    Italian Inventor
    Sent and Recieved first Radio signal
  • Audion Tube

    Audion Tube

    Lee De Forest, created the audion tube , a vacuu tube that amplified signals
  • Colonel Robert McCormick

    Colonel Robert McCormick

    Floyd Phillips Gibbons was the war correspondent for the Chicago Tribune during World War I. One of radio's first news reporters and commentators, he was famous for a fast-talking delivery style.
  • KDKA

    KDKA

    8XK,later renamed KDKA
    Frank Conrad
    Still around today broadcasting out of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
  • The dawning of Advertising

    WEAF aored a 10 minute 'commercial' or toll broadcast, for an apartment complex charging 50$
  • FRC

    FRC

    Uncle Charlie was too popular
    Established FRC in 1927
    Organize the licensing of transmitters assigning radio sation frequencies, call letters. and power limits
  • Radio's Demise

    Radio's Demise

    TV makes appearance in the late 30's
    -As popularity grew, Advertisers went to TV
    -Radio lost money, rado shows jumped ship
  • Golden Era radio

    The entire family could enjoy it together
    Big Band/story hour/situational comedies/dramas
  • Famous Shows or the Golden Era

    Famous Shows or the Golden Era

    Amos and Andy
    Gunsmake
    The Shadow
    Our Miss Brooks
    Superman
    Dick Tracey
    Little orhpan Annie
  • Radio's Progression

    Radio's Progression

    Major Edwin Armstrong invented the FM transmitter, which made for a stronger signal and higer quality sound.
    Talk on the AM
    Music on the FM
  • Rock'n'Roll

    Rock'n'Roll

    the first wave of music that originated in the US in the 1950s and would later develop into the more encompassing international style known as "rock music",
  • Pandora

    Pandora

    One of the first online streaming websites