RTA 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Wireless Telegraphy Acts, Foster Hewitt, Morse Code
9 Sep 2018
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The 1920"s had very little regulation around the use of radio, causing great instability in the existence of different stations. Cfcf, in 1920, was the first station to begin broadcasting commercially advertising radio itself. Radio lisenses were a dollar each, and while 2500 of these were bought, many radios were jury-rigged without a license. The predecessor to radio laws was the 1905 wireless telegraphy act, which pertained to transmissions of morse code at sea. In 1913, the radiotelegraph act expanded the law to one-to-one transmissions, but still didn"t really consider commercial broadcasting. In the us, westinghouse"s kdka would pioneer radio broadcast as we know it. Westinghouse vp harry davis realized that radio sales would be spurred by the airing of radio in and of itself. After broadcasting the election results, radio popularity exploded. Radio was covered rigorously by many newspapers, and some papers even set up their own stations.
