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The station was ultimately relicensed as WWJ, and while observing its 25th anniversary in 1945 the News claimed for it the titles of "the world's first station" and where "commercial radio broadcasting began". [85] After the war the American Radio and Research Company (AMRAD) in Medford Hillside, Massachusetts reactivated 1XE. Although there is ...
Regularly scheduled broadcasts of voice and music began in January 1921. That station is still on the air today as WHA. [93] On August 20, 1920, 8MK, began broadcasting daily and was later claimed by famed inventor Lee de Forest as the first commercial station. 8MK was licensed to a teenager, Michael DeLisle Lyons, and financed by E. W. Scripps.
The War of the Worlds radio broadcast by Orson Welles on electrical transcription disc. Before the early 1950s, when radio networks and local stations wanted to preserve a live broadcast, they did so by means of special phonograph records known as "electrical transcriptions" (ETs), made by cutting a sound-modulated groove into a blank disc. At ...
Sold to private interests in 1966 and again to Amway in 1977, Mutual purchased two radio stations in New York and Chicago in the 1980s, only to sell them after Amway's interest in broadcasting began to fade. Radio syndicator Westwood One acquired Mutual in 1985 and NBC Radio in 1987, consolidating the networks operations. Throughout the 1990s ...
In 1998, KHOU became the first television station in the market to begin broadcasting a high definition digital signal. On June 13, 2013, the Gannett Company announced that it would acquire Belo for $1.5 billion and the assumption of debt, [6] marking the company's entry into the Texas market and ending KHOU's nearly three decades of ownership ...
An early station identification. The station was established by Dr. John C. Schwarzwalder, a professor in the Radio-Television Department at the University of Houston (UH), [2] and Dr. John W. Meaney, an English professor at UH, and was first signed on the air on May 25, 1953, as the first station to broadcast under an educational non-profit license in the United States, and one of the ...
This is a list of broadcast television stations that are licensed in the U.S ... Start TV on 11. ... "United States TV Stations: Texas", Yearbook of Radio and ...
1916: First regular broadcasts on 9XM (now WHA) – Wisconsin state weather, delivered in Morse Code; 1919: First clear transmission of human speech, (on 9XM) after experiments with voice (1918) and music (1917). 1920: Regular wireless broadcasts for entertainment began in Argentina, pioneered by the group around Enrique Telémaco Susini.