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David Hughes is first person to transmit and receive radio waves.
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Heinrich Hertz creates and finds electic waves.
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US patent office gives Marconi the patent for the invention of the radio.
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First radio program of voice and music broadcast by Reginald A. Fessenden.
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The first broadcasting station KCBS was created in San Fransisco.
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First broadcast on 9XM-WHA in morse code.
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Government shuts down or takes control of radio stations during WWI and uses them for military/government purposes.
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Human speech is transmitted and heard clearly for the first time using radio waves.
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First news radio program.
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KDKA is the first US commercial broadcasting station to be licensed.
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Radio stations introduced music, dramas, coverage of sports or politics and instructional programming like cooking into their broadcast as forms of entertainment.
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Columbia Broadcasting Station (CBS) is created.
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The U.S. stock market crashed. Which actually benefitted radio tremendously, because the U.S. population wanted to hear what was going on in the economic world.
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2/3 of Americans own at least one radio.
FDR's first Fireside Chat. -
The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) is created.
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FM radio is discovered but is only used in mono.
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Daily events of WWII are broadcasted.
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RCA (Radio Communications of America) sells its public service stations and creates ABC (America's Broacasting Company)
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The TV is invented.
FM radio is moved from 42-50Mhz to 88-108Mhz. -
Regency creates the first portable transistor radio.
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The FCC approves FM stereo broadcasting.
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The US radio now uses FM stereo.
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Color TV is created and sold to the masses.
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The Internet is created.
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Man on the moon, used radio to communicate.
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The personal computer begins to sell and spread slowing the radio.
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The World Wide Web (WWW) is open to the public.
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XM radio is the first satellite radio station.
