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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.
The timeline of radio lists within the history of radio, the technology and events that produced instruments that use radio waves and activities that people undertook. Later, the history is dominated by programming and contents, which is closer to general history .
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.
History of radio in the United States (2 C, 87 P) A. ... Radio timelines ... Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television;
The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio (OTR) era, was an era of radio in the United States where it was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium. It began with the birth of commercial radio broadcasting in the early 1920s and lasted through the 1950s, when television gradually superseded radio as the medium of choice ...
Timeline of United States history (1950–1969) ... Events from the year 1962 in the United States. Incumbents ... marking the end of the Golden Age of Radio.
Timeline of pre–United States history; Timeline of the history of the United States (1760–1789) Timeline of the history of the United States (1790–1819) Timeline of the history of the United States (1820–1859) Timeline of the history of the United States (1860–1899) Timeline of the history of the United States (1900–1929)
Timeline of the key steps in the Congressional passage of the legislation (FCC.gov) Radio Division (1922). Radio Service Bulletin 1-68 (1915-1922). United States Department of Commerce. Radio Division (1913). Radio Stations of the United States. United States Department of Commerce. Radio Division (1920).