COMN 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company Of America, Reginald Fessenden
15 Oct 2016
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Broadcasting (telecoms: point to point; broadcasting: point to anonymous many) 1906 - reginald fessenden broadcast a christmas eve voice message. At the time, used only for point-to-point for coordinating action across space ( goods to market, military, other business) After ww i, surplus radios sold by dept. stores To consolidate market, u. s. companies formed patent cartel (at&t, westinghouse, General electric, and the american marconi company) and created nbc. Programming financed by selling radios; mid-1920"s, att invents toll broadcasting modeled on telephone billing. Meanwhile, 1923: 554 stations in u. s. 34 in canada and u. s. signals swamped canada (what is radio spectrum: the field of frequencies through which signals are broadcast. ) In the wake of this interference, gov"t struck a royal commission in 1929 to look into the matter. (aird commission) Basically, recommended setting up a government owned company to promote the production of canadian programming and the east/west flow of radio broadcasting.
