History of Radio and Television

By isaac91801

  • 1880s

    1880s
    Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was able to prove transmitted airborne electromagnetic waves, which confirmed James Clerk Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism.

  • 1890s

    1890s
    Italian Inventor Guglielmo Marconi was able to build the first complete, commercially, and successful wireless telegraphy system based on airborne Hertzian waves.

  • 1900s

    1900s
    Brazilian priest Roberto Landell de Moura transmitted the human voice wirelessly for a distance of a half a mile.

  • 1910s

    1910s
    Marconi opened the worlds first purpose-built radio factory in Chelmsford, England

  • 1920s

    1920s
    The first radio news program was broadcasted August 31, 1920 by station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan, which survives today as all-news format station WWJ under ownership of CBS Network.

  • 1930s

    1930s
    In the early 1930s, single sidebanded and frequency modulation were invented by amateur radio operators.

  • 1940s

    1940s
    Commercial televisions transmissions started in North American and Europe.

  • 1950s

    1950s
    in 1955, the new Sony company introduced its first transistorized radio, which was small enough to fit in a vest pocket, powered by a small batery.

  • 1960s

    1960s
    In 1963, color television was being broadcasted commercially, and the first radio communication satallite, Telstar, was launched.

  • 1970s

    1970s
    The Advanced Mobile Phone System analog, developed by Bell Labs, was introduced to the Americas in 1978.

  • 1980s

    1980s
    The U.S. Navy expirmented with satellite navigation, culminating in the launch of the Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation in 1987.

  • 1990s

    In 1995, Scott Bourne founded Net Radio.com as the worlds first internet-only radio network.

  • 2000s

    2000s
    In January 2009, the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board announced that "It will apply royalties to streaming net services based on renevue.",since then websites like Pandora Radio, Mog, 8Tracks, and even recently Google Music have changed the way people discover and listen to music.

  • 2010s

    2010s
    On January 31, 2016, webcasters who are governed by rules by the Copyright Royalty Board were required to pay to Sound Exchange, an annual, nonrefundable minnimum fee of $500 for each channel and station.