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1 April – The 1930 United States Census is the first in that country's history to require households to report the ownership of a radio-receiving set. 18 April – BBC radio listeners uniquely hear the announcement "Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news." [1]
The early history of radio is the history of technology that produces and uses radio instruments that use radio waves. Within the timeline of radio, many people contributed theory and inventions in what became radio. Radio development began as "wireless telegraphy". Later radio history increasingly involves matters of broadcasting.
The Timid Soul was a 1941–1942 comedy based on cartoonist H. T. Webster's famed Caspar Milquetoast character, and Robert L. Ripley's Believe It or Not! was adapted to several different radio formats during the 1930s and 1940s. Conversely, some radio shows gave rise to spinoff comic strips, such as My Friend Irma starring Marie Wilson. [19]
The timeline of radio lists within the history of radio, the technology and events that produced instruments that use radio waves and activities that people undertook. Later, the history is dominated by programming and contents, which is closer to general history .
Electrical transcription disc of The War of the Worlds radio broadcast by Orson Welles with this "dubbed" copy created ten years after the original broadcast. Electrical transcriptions are special phonograph recordings made exclusively for radio broadcasting, [1] which were widely used during the "Golden Age of Radio".
First year issue of Radio News; Hugo Gernsback, Editor. Radio News was an American monthly technology magazine published from 1919 to 1971. The magazine was started by Hugo Gernsback as a magazine for amateur radio enthusiasts, but it evolved to cover all the technical aspects to radio and electronics. In 1929, a bankruptcy forced the sale of ...
The People Look at Radio (University of North Carolina Press, 1946) Leblebici, Huseyin, et al. "Institutional change and the transformation of interorganizational fields: An organizational history of the US radio broadcasting industry." Administrative science quarterly (1991): 333–363.
However by the mid-1930s, broadcasting on a Sunday was extended to commence at around 10.30 am. BBC News on the National Programme would not air until at least 6.00 pm each day, this was in agreement with several newspapers to ensure people would buy a morning edition. Thus did not have a dedicated news department until 1934, and only then was ...