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Marconi
Marconi made the first radio -
Auddion tube
Lee De Green "barrowed" the idea for his audiion tube -
Titanic
Radio helped save lots of lives on the titanic by sending a distress signal to land. -
WWI
The army used radios to send messages to eachother from far away places -
KDKA
Frank Conrad made the KDKA radio station was made -
Dawn of advertising
Advertising it what gave radio stations the ability to stay up and running, as well as televisions -
call letters
Call letters were given to stations, W is east of mississippi, K is west of Mississippi -
CBS and NBC
NBC and CBS are made after the monopoly chain is broken from AT&T -
Uncle charlie
Companies got angry about their advertisments not being heard, so they put in place an FCR or Federal comunication commision -
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Golden Era
After the war, and the great depression, people were looking for money, so people got stations. -
Edwin Armstrong
Edwin armstrong makes the first FM radio transmiter, but FM radio goes dormant until the 1970s -
Television transfer
People had trouble transfering their stations over to the television, because the radio characters dont like they are when they're described on the radio -
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Press radio wars
Newspaper companies are scared about losing their business to radios, so they dont let people post their shows until after the paper has been passed out -
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Radio musician wars
The musicians refuse to let their mucisians play on radio until new agreements are signed -
Family medium
Families could sit down and listen to the radio as a whole because there was nothing innapropriate on the radios, unlike now a days where everyone is cussing and doing innapropriate stuff.