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Marconi made the first radio
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Lee De Green "barrowed" the idea for his audiion tube
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Radio helped save lots of lives on the titanic by sending a distress signal to land.
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The army used radios to send messages to eachother from far away places
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Frank Conrad made the KDKA radio station was made
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Advertising it what gave radio stations the ability to stay up and running, as well as televisions
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Call letters were given to stations, W is east of mississippi, K is west of Mississippi
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NBC and CBS are made after the monopoly chain is broken from AT&T
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Companies got angry about their advertisments not being heard, so they put in place an FCR or Federal comunication commision
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After the war, and the great depression, people were looking for money, so people got stations.
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Edwin armstrong makes the first FM radio transmiter, but FM radio goes dormant until the 1970s
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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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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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The musicians refuse to let their mucisians play on radio until new agreements are signed
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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.