Radio Events

  • First Radio Signal Sent

    Marconi the Italian inventor created the Radio
  • Creation of the Audion Tube

    Lee De Forest created or borrowed the idea for the audion tube.
  • First Clear Transmission of Human Speech

  • First Radio Station

    First called 8XK, then later called KDKA. Created by Frank Conrad.
  • Period: to

    Radio was first used to transmit pictures as visible as television

  • The first known radio news program was broadcast by station 8MK

  • FRC was created

    It organizes the licenses of transmitters
  • FM Radio was Pantended

  • Period: to

    Standard analog television transmissions started in North America and Europe.

  • First Radio Communication Satellite

  • The digital Compact Disc (CD) is introduced by a Japanese conglomerate.

  • The GPS constellation of satellites was launched.

  • People started Broadcasting from their personal computers

  • The First Blue Ray was Created

  • The Moving Picture Experts Group MPEG-1 Audio Layer III (MP3) compressed audio file format becomes an international standard, and eventually the most popular format for distributing digital audio over the Internet.