CS100 Chapter Notes -Music Box, Common Carrier, Radio Days

• School: WLU
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CS100
• Professor: Ghislain Thibault

Document Summary

Marconi: wanted to transmit morse code from point-to-point without wires, and created wireless or radiotelegraphy . He never really wanted to transport voice, but a variety or hobbyists and amateurs did. 1920"s: increase in popularity as corporate stations began broadcasting on a regular basis. Radio originally thought of as point-to-point communication but it really had multiple termini. David sarnoff: discovered radio broadcasting essentially when he referred to a wireless household music box. The ether would not be filled with a bunch of amateurs making point-to-point transmissions, but with music broadcast to a nation of listeners, who would then want to purchase westinghouse radio sets. An operator of radio is not a common carrier who operated point-to-point delivers goods to a definite address and must be accessible to everyone and accountable for the tariffs they charge. They are also not accountable (ie the messenger boy) for the content of the messages sent.