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Jack Leroy Cooper (September 18, 1888 – January 12, 1970) was the first African-American radio disc jockey, [1] [2] [3] described as "the undisputed patriarch of black radio in the United States." [ 4 ] In 2012, he was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame .
Adolph Eddy Goldfarb was born in 1921 in Chicago, the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Romania. He was one of three children: Bernard was five years older and Bunny (Bernice) was two years younger. As a young child, he became interested in how things work. When he was around five years old, his father, Louis, brought home a radio.
Pages in category "Radio personalities from Chicago" The following 147 pages are in this category, out of 147 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
Music radio, particularly top 40, has often acted as both a barometer and an arbiter of musical taste, and radio airplay is one of the defining measures of success in the mainstream musical world. In fact, the rise of rock music to popularity is intimately tied to the history of music radio. Early forms of rock had languished in poor areas of ...
[15] (The Chicago Reader had previously reported, in November 2009, a mortgage total of $4.79 million "that'll come due in 2011.") [16] More than four and a half years later, in July 2017, Crain's revealed that the MBC's mortgage deadline had been pushed back from the end of 2015 to the end of 2017, and that as of August 2016 the museum "owed ...
1920s: Radio was first used to transmit pictures visible as television. 1926: Official Egyptian decree to regulate radio transmission stations and radio receivers. [40] Early 1930s: Single sideband (SSB) and frequency modulation (FM) were invented by amateur radio operators. By 1940, they were established commercial modes.
Before the discovery of electromagnetic waves and the development of radio communication, there were many wireless telegraph systems proposed and tested. [4] In April 1872 William Henry Ward received U.S. patent 126,356 for a wireless telegraphy system where he theorized that convection currents in the atmosphere could carry signals like a telegraph wire. [5]