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radio history

  • Marconi

    Marconi

    he was an Italian inventor , sent and received the first radio signal in 1895. He might have not been the first, but he received the most credit for it.
  • Audion tube

    Audion tube

    Lee De Forest created, (borrowed), the idea for the audion tube . a lot of people thin that the Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden actually came up with the idea, but he was not put in history for this invention.
  • Radio stations

    Radio stations

    8XK, later renamed KDKA with Frank Conrad , still is here broadcasting in Pittsburg , Pennsylvania .
  • music

    music

    they started putting music on the radio so people could be happy listening to music
  • Dawn of advertising

    Dawn of advertising

    when the station started making money . WEAF aired a 10 minute commercial for an apartment complex for $50
  • family medium

    family medium

    the whole family can enjoy radio together music, stories, comedies and drams
  • FRC

    FRC

    Saying Uncle charge was too popular. organizes the license of transmitters. assigns radio station frequencies , call letters,and power limits.
  • Golden era

    Golden era

    during the Great- Depression , people didn't have a lot of money
  • Transitor

    Transitor

    future of radio and radio television is provided by John Bardeen , Walter Brattain ,and William Shockley .
  • cathode ray tube

    cathode ray tube

    RCA beats out rival CBS, when the national television system committee adopts RCA 's new system
  • advertising

    advertising

    advertising is accepted on WCBN-AM
  • radio receivers

    radio receivers

    the number of radio receivers in the world exceeds the number of newspapers printed daily
  • WCBN

    WCBN

    WCBN hosts the first National Association of College Broadcasters
  • stereophonic sound

    stereophonic sound

    United States radio stations begin broadcasting in stereophonic sound
  • FM radio stations

    FM radio stations

    in Europe , FM radio stations begin to use the subcarrier signal of FM radio to transmit digital data . This RDS (radio data system) is used to transmit messages on display screens to radios.