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Consisted of 27 stations (3 owned and operated and up to 24 "phantom stations" – time leased on affiliated radio stations. WEAF chain: Broadcasting Company of America: Northeast and Midwest United States 1923–1926 Regional network of AT&T-owned radio stations with New York City radio station WEAF as its hub.
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the birth of commercial radio broadcasting in the early 1920s and lasted through the 1950s, when television gradually superseded radio as the medium of choice ...
The major providers of Internet radio in the United States include iHeartRadio and Audacy (both of which are owned by major terrestrial station ownership groups iHeartMedia and Audacy, Inc. respectively), Pandora (owned by SiriusXM), Apple Music and Spotify; Pandora, Apple Music and Spotify operate exclusively on the Internet, while iHeart and ...
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.
Defunct radio stations in the United States (3 C, 1,295 P) Z. Zenith Electronics (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "History of radio in the United States"
American Radio Archives and Museum offers one of the largest collections of radio broadcasting in the United States and in the world. [12] It has a collection of 23,000 radio and TV scripts, 10,000 photographs, 10,000 books on radio history, and 5,000 audio recordings.
Charles David "Doc" Herrold (November 16, 1875 – July 1, 1948) was an American inventor and pioneer radio broadcaster, who began experimenting with audio radio transmissions in 1909. Beginning in 1912 he apparently became the first person to make entertainment broadcasts on a regular schedule, from his station in San Jose, California.
The company was founded by pioneer radio station operator Powel Crosley and was based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Its flagship station, WLW (AM), was first licensed in March 1922. [5] Most of its broadcast properties adopted call signs with "WLW" as the first three letters.