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The network experimented with television in the early 1930s, launching experimental station W6XAO in Los Angeles, California, on December 31, 1931. It broadcast one hour per day throughout the 1930s. In 1937, the TV and radio operations teamed up to broadcast the opening of the 27th annual Los Angeles Motor Car Dealers' Automobile Show.
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 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.
Los Angeles, California 16 April 1922 AM 640 kHz, founded by Earle C. Anthony Class-A 4XD WBT: Charlotte, North Carolina: 18 December 1920, License granted 10 April 1922 AM 1110 kHz Class-A CKOC CKOC: Hamilton, Ontario: 1 May 1922 410 metres (1922–1925) AM 880 kHz (1925–1930) AM 1120 kHz (1930–1931) AM 630 kHz (1931–1933) AM 1120 kHz ...
Sounds of change: A history of FM broadcasting in America (Univ of North Carolina Press, 2008) Terrace, Vincent. Radio's golden years: The encyclopedia of radio programs, 1930–1960 (1981) White, Llewellyn. The American Radio (University of Chicago Press, 1947)
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 Radio Series Scripts Collections contains scripts from 1930-1990, while the Radio Sound Records Collection contains recordings from 1932-1994. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] The collections include scripts, books, personal papers, sound records, photographs, correspondence, and other material reflecting the history of radio- and TV broadcasting. [ 6 ]
The 1926 formation of the National Broadcasting Company was a consolidation and reorganization of earlier network radio operations developed by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) beginning in 1922, in addition to more limited efforts conducted by the "radio group" companies, which consisted of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and its corporate owners, General Electric (GE ...