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Heinrich Hertz detects and produces radio waves
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Marconi establishes first radio link between England and France.
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American scientist R.A. Fessenden transmists human speech via radiowaves.
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Valdemar Poulsen patents an arc transmission that generates continuous radio waves, producing a frequency of 100 kHz and receivable over 150 miles
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First radio transmission of music at Graz, Austria
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Radio communications gain publicity when the captain of the Montrose alerts Scotland via radio of an escaping criminal
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Armstrong develops the superheterodyne radio receiver. The principle for this receiver is the basis for all radio receivers now in use.
A 200 kW alternator starts operating at Station NFF, the Naval station in New Brunswick NJ, which was the most powerful radio transmitter of the time. -
Educational programming originating at the UM grows.
The Regents of the UM become interested in radio.
WJR cuts the UM's educational broadcasts for commercial broadcasting.
Edward Armstrong patents wide-band frequency modulation (FM radio). -
Sony offers a miniature transistor radio. This is one of the first mass-produced consumer AM/FM radios.
The studios in the UM dormitories jorn forces, and "The Campus Broadcasting Network" is born as WCBN-AM -
CBN moves into the new Student Activities Building, and its studios start to become centralized.
Allan Ginsberg's controvesial poem, "Howl" is broadcast for the first time. -
WCBN studios are completely centralized in the SAB. CBN's identity becomes stronger as its programming becomes increasingly eclectic and challenging
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U-M President Robben Fleming urges that WCBN should be used only for educational purposes and restricted to students only.
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Cher sang the U.S. national anthem at Super Bowl XXXIII
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Bonnie Raitt inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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David Palmer, former keyboard player for Jethro Tull changed his name to Dee Palmer after a successful sex change operation. Palmer was the keyboard player for Jethro Tull between 1969 and 1980
