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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.
1920 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1920. Events. January The first informal and spasmodic broadcasts ...
Around 1920, radio broadcasting started to get popular. The Brox Sisters , a popular singing group, gathered around the radio at the time. The question of the 'first' publicly targeted licensed radio station in the U.S. has more than one answer and depends on semantics.
Radio broadcasting has been used in the United States since the early 1920s to distribute news and entertainment to a national audience. In 1923, 1 percent of U.S. households owned at least one radio receiver, while a majority did by 1931 and 75 percent did by 1937.
Pages in category "1920s American radio programs" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
23 February 1920 AM 107 kHz 15 kW LOR Radio Argentina: LOR Buenos Aires, Argentina 27 August 1920 Continued daily commercial broadcast up to 1997 AM 857 kHz [17] 5 Watts initially, 500 Watts by 1921 6ADZ KNX: Los Angeles, California Summer 1920, granted broadcasting station license 1921 AM 1070 kHz Class-A 8MK: WWJ: Detroit, Michigan 20 August 1920
1920: Regular wireless broadcasts for entertainment began in Argentina, pioneered by the group around Enrique Telémaco Susini. 1920: Spark-gap telegraphy stopped. 20 August 1920: E.W. Scripps's WWJ in Detroit received its commercial broadcasting license and started broadcasting. It has carried a regular schedule of programming to the present.
Milestones in radio: the first half century (1895–1945). The UNESCO courier (February 1997), p. 16–21; Radio Review/Radio Listeners Guide (1925–1929), Broadcasting Yearbook (1935–2010), World Radio TV Handbook (1947–) Berg, Jerome S. The early shortwave stations: a broadcasting history through 1945 (2013) radioheritage.net