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Many rural areas of the Midwest and South did not receive commercial power until the 1960s. Until that point, special radios were made to run on DC power. The earliest so-called "farm radios" used the "A", "B", and "C" batteries typical of 1920s radio sets; these farm radios were identical to those used in cities.
The earliest radio programs of the 1920s were largely unsponsored; radio stations were a service designed to sell radio receivers. In early 1922, American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) announced the beginning of advertisement-supported broadcasting on its owned stations, and plans for the development of the first radio network using its ...
Ray, William B. FCC: The Ups and Downs of Radio-TV Regulation (Iowa State University Press, 1990) Rosen, Philip T. The Modern Stentors; Radio Broadcasting and the Federal Government 1920–1934 (Greenwood, 1980) Settel, Irving. A Pictorial History of Radio (1960) Sies, Luther F. Encyclopedia of American Radio: 1920–1960 (McFarland, 2nd ed. 2 ...
Majestic radios from the Grigsby-Grunow halcyon era of the late 1920s–early 1930s have become antique radio collectors' items, prized for their craftmanship and appearance. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] Some models, such as the Art Deco -styled model 161 produced in 1933, have been fully restored.
Detrola Silvertone 6402 (1937) radio, made of Bakelite. The Detrola Radio & Television Corporation was an American manufacturer of radios. [1] Founded in Detroit in 1931 by John J. Ross, Detrola became a brand of affordable radios in the midst of the Great Depression. [2]
A Philco 90 "cathedral" style radio, circa 1931. Although some households owned one or more sophisticated table radios or console models with shortwave and radio-phonograph combinations as early as the 1920s, table radios offered in various cabinet materials and designs at an assortment of prices from $10 to over $100 proliferated in the 1930s.
1920s: The Spanish Flu. In the fall of 1918, a mutated version of the virus that claimed its first victims in the spring made its way around the world, causing the death rate to escalate quickly ...
Listed below are notable vintage radio programs associated with old-time radio, also called Radio's Golden Age. United States Golden Age programs 10-2-4 Ranch ...