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From about 1920 to 1945, radio developed into the first electronic mass medium, monopolizing “the airwaves” and defining, along with newspapers, magazines, and motion pictures, an entire generation of mass culture. About 1945 the appearance of television began to transform radio’s content and role.
It traces the development of radio and television broadcasting, surveys the state of broadcasting in various countries throughout the world, and discusses the relationship of the broadcaster to government and the public.
Radio - Broadcasting, Entertainment, History: The Golden Age of American radio as a creative medium lasted, at best, from 1930 to 1955, with the true peak period being the 1940s. Writer-producer-director Norman Corwin, one of radio’s brightest talents, ruefully made the point that radio’s most creative era was “the shortest golden age in ...
Radio technology, transmission and detection of communication signals consisting of electromagnetic waves that travel through the air in a straight line or by reflection from the ionosphere or from a communications satellite. Learn more about the history, development, and principles of radio technology in this article.
Golden Age of American radio, period lasting roughly from 1930 through the 1940s, when the medium of commercial broadcast radio grew into the fabric of daily life in the United States, providing news and entertainment to a country struggling with economic depression and war.
Radio in its early days was perceived as a technological wonder rather than a medium of cultural significance. The public quickly adjusted to radio broadcasting and either enjoyed its many programs or turned them off.
Radio - Digital, Streaming, Broadcasting: At the turn of the 21st century, the most important ongoing change was the inception of digital radio. In the 1990s countries in Europe had inaugurated digital audio broadcasting (DAB), which was distributed both by ground transmitters and by means of orbiting communication satellites.
Television (TV), the electronic delivery of moving images and sound from a source to a receiver. Conceived in the early 20th century, television is a vibrant broadcast medium, using the model of broadcast radio to bring news and entertainment to people all over the world.
The first radio station started broadcasting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1920. Within two years hundreds of radio stations were started. Radio was a major source of home entertainment until the mid-1950s.
KDKA in Pittsburgh, most often cited as the first radio outlet in the United States, had begun as the amateur station 8XK in 1916, but it was forced off the air in World War I. It reappeared on November 2, 1920, as a “commercial” voice-and-music…