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Reginald Fessenden, an early pioneer in the use and development of radio technology is believed to have broadcast the first radio program, consisting of violins playing, and bible verses for the night before Christmas in 1906. -
The sinking of the Titanic was a massive event that was covered in media around the world, inspiring the larger implementation of mass communication in day to day-to-day life through the use of radios to better respond to emergencies and events. -
Radio continued to play a massive role in mass communication throughout the First World War, seeing advancements and considerably more use in civilian life afterward. Radio stations began to pop up around the United States and began running news broadcasts surrounding politics at the time, eventually seeing entertainment programs begin to be broadcast in 1922. -
As radio broadcasts grew in America throughout the '20s and '30s, seeing many different stations and networks establish themselves; a major electronics company, the Radio Corporation of America had been showing off and developing the early models of televisions, eventually televising the 1939 World's Fair. -
While the development of television for mass consumerism was nearly a reality, World War II began and required a large amount of the nation's resources to properly assist the war effort. -
Live production broadcasts began to take the nation by storm throughout the '50s, most commonly using anthology dramas to entertain and advertise products directly to the households of America; The widely regarded first production of this era was the Kraft Television Theater. -
After the war had finished in 1945, many households around the country began to buy television sets, seeing an increase of 6,000 households in 1946, to half of the households in the nation having them in 1955.