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People were building their own personal radio stations.That created a major problem. Soon there were too many stations for the number of frequencies available to separate them on the radio dial. You might be listening to "uncle Charlie's station," and all of a sudden someone else would turn on their's.
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Guglielmo Marconi was an italian inventor and engineer. He made the first long-distance wireless telegraph in 1901. His company ended the isolation of ocean travel and saved hundreds of live, especially all of the surviving passengers from the sinking titanic.
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Amplitude modulation its a modulation technique used in electronic communication, most used for transmitting information to a radio carrier wave. AM was the earliest modulation method used to transmit voice by radio. It was developed during the first two decades of the 20th century.
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Its a method of impressing data onto an alternating current wave by varying the frequency of the wave. This scheme can be used with analog or digital data.
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Lee de forest was an inventor who invented a vacuum tube which ended up becoming the main basis of all electronic devices. He eventually called it the Audion. He held permission on the technology of radio, television and film.
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A human error occurred when the titanic was on the sea.
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Letters used by a television or radio station as an identifying code. The U.S. Military use the same phonetic alphabet. However, it is mostly used in international radio communications on sea, air, or land.
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8XK, later renamed. It is commonly known to KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which in October 1920 received its license and went on the air as the first US licensed commercial broadcasting station on November.
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In February, AT&T announced it would begin selling toll broadcasting to advertisers, in which businesses would underwrite or finance a broadcast, in exchange for being mentioned on the radio.
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an independent agency of the United States government created by statute to organize interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable
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An era of radio programming in the United States during which radio was the dominant electronic home entertainment. During this period radio was the only broadcast, and people regularly tuned into their favorite radio programs, and families got together to listen to the home radio in the evening.
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Families could now get together in a way of spending quality time together. Listeners could now listen to story hour, big band music and more.
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Tv makes appearance in the late 30's. As popularity grew, advertisers went to TV. Radio lost money, Radio shows jumped ship.
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The Shadow
Superman
Little Orphan Annie
Dick Tracey
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A lot of TV shows started off as radio programs for example:
I Love Lucy
The Adventures of Superman
Dragnet
The Lone Ranger
