MMC 2604 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Federal Radio Commission, Samuel Morse, Wireless Telegraphy
23 Oct 2018
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Lecture 9: popular radio and the origins of. 1894: guglielmo marconi invents the wireless telegraph (actually it was tesla) 1920: kdka, 1st radio station, before this, radio was for ships, military use. 1926: rca creates nbc, 1st broadcasting network. Organized many little radio stations into a network: david sarno becomes a network pioneer. 1927: radio act of 1927, says radio stations must act in public interest, creates federal radio commission (later fcc, no obscene, indecent, or profane language . 1928: william paley creates cbs, competition begins with nbc. Hindenburg was a powerful nazi plane ying around showing it"s power, lled with hydrogen, exploded in new jersey. 1938: orson wells war of the worlds broadcast on halloween, reenactment of play about martians invading, people missed that it was a play and freaked out. 1940s: world war ii, hearing about pearl harbor on the radio.
