The document provides a history of radio broadcasting from 1900-1950. It describes key early innovations including Reginald Fessenden making the first radio broadcast in 1905 of music and a Bible reading. Commercial radio began in the 1920s with stations like KDKA broadcasting election results. The rise of networks like NBC and CBS in the 1930s led to regulation by the Federal Communications Commission to reduce interference. During World War II, radio became an important source of news and entertainment and helped the industry grow further in the postwar years, until the rise of television in the late 1940s began to compete for audiences and sponsors.

1. Radio Broadcasting History

2. Birth of Radio – 1900-1910

3. Safety of ships. Invention of Radio

4. Lade Forest Reginald Fessenden. Wireless Telephone. From Wireless Telegraph to wireless Telephone

5. Fessenden plays Violin Sing a Song Read a Bible verse Wireless telephone The first broadcast 1905

6. He equipped ships with wireless telephone and are Transmitter. Entertain ships crew by phonograph reload on shores. Lade Forest 1907

7. Wireless Training school. Charles Harold 1910

8. EXPERIMENTATION: 1910-1920

9. Music and shows. Charles Harold 1912-1917

10. Radio station forced to shut down Use of Radio Technology. Blessing in disguise. World War I

11. At end of War he started Broadcasting music, News and much more. No place for entertainment. Le de Forest

12. He was allowed to continue his work during war. Frank Conrad.

13. Radio Arrives

14. Get paid for services. KDKA goes on Broadcast the election result New Era of peace and prosperity. Licensed Radio Broadcasting

15. Hundreds of stations. Radio Corporation of America RCA General Electric and Wasting house allowed making receivers. Transmitter – Western Electric ATST- Tell Broadcasting Broadcasting Decade.

16. Crystal sets. Radio shape and technology changed. Technology

17. First and accepted by WEAF. No check on ads. Advertising

18. ATST was dominate NBC and CBS formed. Networks

19. Unwanted frequencies Federal Radio Communication FRC is formed. Regulation

20. Radio Matures. 1930-1940

21. Decade of Chaos. Roosevelt and Radio. Radio as a big Business

22. Entertainment Programming. Big Shows

23. Supremacy of sponsors. The Decade of Sponsors

24. To Regulate FCC

25. Newspaper takes Radio as a thread. Press Radio War

26. Musician refuses to perform on Radio. News agreements. Radio Musician War

27. Dynamic and clear voices. Extinction of receivers. Delay of FM. Edwin Armstrong Invents FM

28. Radio Journalists Important sources of News War in Europe

29. Wound Heeler Radio Arrives 1940 -1950

30. American in World War II Radio Industry converts War Machinery

31. Radio was a luxury Post War Affluence

32. 1948- 1950 Growth of TV. Same sponsors and Networks Transmission was limited. Television Arrives