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Radio History

  • Uncle Charlie

    Uncle Charlie
    People were building their own radio stations. That created a major problem. Soon there was too many radio stations for the frequency of the radio signal available for radio stations.
  • Marconi

    Marconi
    Guglielmo Marconi Formed the wireless telegraph and signal company, he made the first wireless telegraph in 1901. He gave the demonstration to the italian government. Where then signals were sent in a 12 mile radius distance.
  • AM Waves

    AM Waves
    Am was the earliest modulation method used to transmit voice by radio. it was developed during the first two decades of the 20th century.
  • FM Waves

    FM Waves
    With FM, the frequency (the number of times each second that the current changes direction) of the carrier signal is varied. This can be used with analog or digital data.
  • Audion Tube

    Audion Tube
    lee de forest was an inventor who invented a vacuum tube which ended up becoming the main bases of all electronic devices. He eventually called it the audion. He held permission on the technology of radio, television and film.
  • Iceberg Straight Ahead.

    Iceberg Straight Ahead.
    A human error occurred while the titanic was on the sea. This could've been avoided but wasn't by a dumb mistake that was made by a human being.
  • Call Letters

    Call Letters
    This was made to identify codes, the u.s.s military use this with the same phonetic alphabet. But most likely this is used for international radio communications
  • Radio Station

    Radio Station
    8XK, later renamed. It is commonly known to KDKA in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, which in october 1920 received it's license and went on the air as the first U.S licensed commercial broadcasting station on november
  • The Dawn Of Advertising

    The Dawn Of Advertising
    Usually costed round $50 to just show a commercial of something you would be advertising. Just for 10 minutes of it.
  • FRC

    FRC
    in 1927 the FRC was an agency of the U.S government, that was created to organize interstate communications by radio.
  • Golden Era

    Golden Era
    During this period radio was the only broadcast, and people regularly tuned into their favorite radio programs, and families got together to listen to the radio in the evening.
  • Family Medium

    Family Medium
    Listeners could now listen to story hour, big band music and more. Families could now get together in a way to spend quality time together.
  • Radio Demise

    Radio Demise
    Tv makes an appearance in the late 30s, as popularity grew, advertisers went to TV. Soon later radio businesses lost money because of everyone watching Tv.
  • Famous Shows Of The Golden Era

    Famous Shows Of The Golden Era
    Superman
    Our Miss Brooks
    Little Orphan Annie
    and many other shows
  • Radio Shows To TV

    Radio Shows To TV
    Many of these shows started out as radio programs like,i love lucy, a lone ranger and many other programs that are now tv shows