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Radio History Marco Marquez

By Marco6

  • 1st Successful Transatlantic Radio

    1st Successful Transatlantic Radio
    Marconi invented the first successful transatlantic radio on December 12 in 1901 he also received a message sent from England at St. John’s, Newfoundland. The transatlantic transmission won him worldwide fame.

  • First Radio broadcast for entertainment and music

    First Radio broadcast for entertainment and music
    It was transmitted from Brant Rock,Massachusetts to the public.

  • First transpacific radiotelegraph

    The first radiotelegraph service linked San Francisco and Hawaii. This is the first time radio traveled over the pacific ocean and one step closer to the world being connected by radio. This was huge, because now we could communicate across this part of the ocean to Hawaii despite it being so far away.

  • Speech first communicated across continent

    true broadcasting began with the ability of one country to communicate with another through radio. In 1915, speech first transmitted across the continent from New York to San Francisco and across the atlantic from Virginia to the Eiffel tower in Paris.

  • First Radio Commercial

    WEAF aired a 10 minute commercial for an apartment complex that cost $50.

  • Televised moving images introduced

    Although not yet popular, John Logie Baird first demonstrated televised moving images.

  • FRC

    FRC
    It was established on January 28, 1927. It organized the licensing of transmitters.

  • Invention of FM Transmitter

    Major Edwin Armstrong invented the FM transmitter. This made transmitting clearer and easier.

  • The first FM radio station was invented

    This is the first radio that was created with an FM radio. It was created by Edward Armstrong.

  • TV starts becoming popular

    TV was the main enemy of Radio. Advertisers moved to tv to get to audiences and radio got its funding from them. Video truly almost killed the radio star when this occurred and they suffered. Radio then began playing more music.

  • The Smaller Radio

    As you can see, the next newest radio was made similar to the one before just smaller & with this one, it's possible to carry around other than the first one, which is too large.

  • The Music Radio

    From radio's before, they were always used for listening to your favorite shows. But this one, it's often associated with rock-and-roll radio from the 1970s. This radio is also made more portable than the previous ones.