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The earliest radio programs of the 1920s were largely unsponsored; radio stations were a service designed to sell radio receivers. In early 1922, American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) announced the beginning of advertisement-supported broadcasting on its owned stations, and plans for the development of the first radio network using its ...
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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
The idea was to create The All-Negro Hour, a radio program specifically for black audiences by black creators and performers. [2] Silverstein was the only station owner that took interest in his show and agreed to air it on November 3, 1929. [2] The show featured exclusively black guests, performers, actors, musicians, and comedians. [6]
When radio was introduced in the early 1920s, many predicted it would kill the phonograph record industry. Radio was a free medium for the public to hear music for which they would normally pay. While some companies saw radio as a new avenue for promotion, others feared it would cut into profits from record sales and live performances.
20 August – Station 8MK in Detroit (modern-day WWJ) began broadcasts of regularly scheduled news bulletins and religious shows. The news is compiled from reports supplied by the Detroit News. [5] 27 August – Sociedad Radio Argentina airs a live performance of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal from the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires. Only ...
1920s radio programme endings (1 C) A. 1920s American radio programs (1 C, 47 P) This page was last edited on 29 April 2023, at 05:24 (UTC). Text is available under ...