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Broadcast radio in the United States underwent a period of rapid change through the decade of the 1920s. Technology advances, better regulation, rapid consumer adoption, and the creation of broadcast networks transformed radio from a consumer curiosity into the mass media powerhouse that defined the Golden Age of Radio.
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.
In the 1930s some radios were manufactured using Catalin, which is the phenolic resin component of bakelite, with no organic filler added, but nearly all historic bakelite radios are the standard black-brown bakelite color. Bakelite as used for radio cabinets was traditionally brown, and this color came from the ground walnut shell flour added ...
12 May – Walter Winchell, newspaper gossip columnist for the New York Daily Mirror, does his first radio program on CBS. [6] 16 June – Clara, Lu, and Em debuts on WGN. [6] 31 July – The Shadow debuts on CBS Radio. [6] 30 September – Death Valley Days debuts on NBC Blue. [6] 2 October – The Lutheran Hour debuts on CBS Radio. Dr.
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The Gay Nineties Revue (radio program) The General Electric Concert; General Motors Concerts; The Gibson Family; Girl Alone; The Goldbergs (broadcast series) Good News of 1938; The Goodrich Silvertown Orchestra; Goodwill Court; Grand Central Station (radio series) The Green Hornet (radio series) The Grouch Club; Guiding Light (1937–1949)
Radio stations attractiveness to advertisers began to change from a "mass medium" to one shaped by demographics, although to a lesser degree than television; radio formats began to be targeted toward specific groups of people according to age, gender, urban (or rural) setting and race, and freeform stations with broad playlists became uncommon ...
18 April – BBC radio listeners uniquely hear the announcement "Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news." [8] Piano music follows. 28 May – The BBC Symphony Orchestra is formed as a permanent full-scale ensemble under the directorship of Adrian Boult. It gives its first concert on 22 October at the Queen's Hall, London. [9]