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The first informal and spasmodic broadcasts in the United Kingdom are made by the Marconi Company from Chelmsford in England. These broadcasts include both speech and music. [1] Radio 2XG, which opened the previous year, is forced to close down after Lee De Forest moves the station from the Bronx (where it is licensed) to Manhattan (where it is ...
Broadcast radio in the United States underwent a period of rapid change through the decade of the 1920s. Technology advances, better regulation, rapid consumer adoption, and the creation of broadcast networks transformed radio from a consumer curiosity into the mass media powerhouse that defined the Golden Age of Radio.
Pages in category "1920s American radio programs" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. ... The Standard School Broadcast; U. Uncle Don; V.
Only 100 people were listening, but the first broadcast from a licensed radio station occurred at 8 p.m. on Nov. 2, 1920. It was Pittsburgh’s KDKA, and the station was broadcasting the results ...
27 August 1920 Continued daily commercial broadcast up to 1997 AM 857 kHz [17] 5 Watts initially, 500 Watts by 1921 6ADZ KNX: Los Angeles, California Summer 1920, granted broadcasting station license 1921 AM 1070 kHz Class-A 8MK: WWJ: Detroit, Michigan 20 August 1920 AM 950 kHz Class-B KDKA: same as original. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
January – The first informal and spasmodic broadcasts in the United Kingdom are made by the Marconi Company from Chelmsford in Essex. These broadcasts include both speech and music. [1] 23 February–6 March – The Marconi Company broadcasts from Chelmsford a series of 30-minute shows repeated twice daily. These include live music ...
The first civilian radio broadcast in Germany was a Christmas concert on December 22, 1920. [32] While its reception was confirmed from all over Europe, reception in Germany was still a punishable offense, as a result of the Treaty of Versailles .
1920: Regular wireless broadcasts for entertainment began in Argentina, pioneered by the group around Enrique Telémaco Susini. 1920: Spark-gap telegraphy stopped. 20 August 1920: E.W. Scripps's WWJ in Detroit received its commercial broadcasting license and started broadcasting. It has carried a regular schedule of programming to the present.