JOUR 200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Walter Cronkite, The Huffington Post, Concentration Of Media Ownership
5 Mar 2018
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Invented the audion, a vacuum tube that amplified wireless signals to a degree needed to send sound and to receive sound in other words, radio. In october 1916, he generated news by arranging the broadcast of recorded. Phonograph music from the columbia graphophone company"s laboratory in. Manhattan to an audience assembled a few blocks away at the hotel astor in. He was not a journalist, but he saw news as one of the features of radio transmissions that would make them appealing. Sarnoff was general manager of the rca. Experiments with linking stations together into networks to share programming included, by 1926, some 19 stations under rca as the national broadcasting. Nbc was eventually organized as two networks under rca, known as nbc red and nbc blue. Columbia broadcasting system cbs created by william s. paley, who had seen the possibilities for advertising on radio as a cigar company executive.
