I want to make a list of milestones in the history of radio - important broadcasts, etc.
Any suggestions?
2nd June 1896 - British Patent number 12039 was filed for a system of telegraphy using Hertzian waves, by Guglielmo Marconi.
12 December 1901 - first transatlantic broadcast, remarkable because it proved that radio need not be limited to line-of-sight.
1922 - BBC formed
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1930-something - the live commentary on the burning of the airship Hindenberg
1930 something - Orson Wells convinving half of America that the martians had landed with his adaptation of ‘War of the Worlds’
1960s - Radio Caroline and other pirate stations unleash FM and Jimi Hendrix on an unsuspecting world.
1979? - The HitchHiker’s Guide ot the Galaxy
What else? There must be/have been all sorts of great moments. Can anyone list any of them? Satellite radio, webcasting? The emergence of rock and roll. Any in Taiwan?
Then let’s see what we can think of without research!
Let’s see…1980 something–Walkman invented.
Um, some developments took decades, but the rise of television changed the nature of radio very much. Dramas and variety shows migrated to TV, for instance, leaving music on the radio.
How about the 1970’s program in India where Indira Gandhi’s government would give radios to men willing to receive vasectomies?
KDKA, in Pittsburgh, was granted the very first US broadcasting license and began broadcasting in November, 1920. The station’s history included many radio “firsts,” such as broadcasting Herbert Hoover’s first radio address on January 25, 1921, and the first broadcast of the first World Series (which was played in Pittsburgh).
KDKA is the only radio station in the US east of the Mississippi river to use the K at the beginning of the call letters. All other stations east of the Mississippi begin with the letter W… AFAIK.
I hate it when I’m too stupid to think of the obvious for myself.
Links can kill it.
