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  2. History of radio - Wikipedia

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    The early history of radio is the history of technology that produces and uses radio instruments that use radio waves. Within the timeline of radio, many people contributed theory and inventions in what became radio. Radio development began as "wireless telegraphy". Later radio history increasingly involves matters of broadcasting.

  3. Music radio - Wikipedia

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    Country has been a popular radio format since the early days of music radio, dating back to the early days of radio itself when barn dance radio programs were widely popular; however, the format was indeed originally a predominantly rural phenomenon, especially on AM radio. Decades worth of efforts at mainstreaming the format eventually paid ...

  4. Golden Age of Radio - Wikipedia

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    The Mighty Music Box: The Golden Age of Radio. Los Angeles, CA: Amber Crest Books. ISBN 0-86533-000-X; Dunning, John. (1976). Tune in Yesterday: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio 1925–1976. Englewood Cliffs, NY: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13932-616-2. Ellett, Ryan (2012). Encyclopedia of Black Radio in the United States, 1921–1955.

  5. Timeline of radio - Wikipedia

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    1920s: Radio was first used to transmit pictures visible as television. 1926: Official Egyptian decree to regulate radio transmission stations and radio receivers. [40] Early 1930s: Single sideband (SSB) and frequency modulation (FM) were invented by amateur radio operators. By 1940, they were established commercial modes.

  6. Radio in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Cable radio: Cable radio providers include Music Choice, Muzak, DMX, Sonic Tap and Canada-based Galaxie. CRN Digital Talk Radio Networks specialize in talk radio. [6] Satellite radio: Direct-to-consumer satellite radio broadcasting was introduced in the United States in 1997; there is only a single provider, SiriusXM. Technical operations are ...

  7. List of old-time radio programs - Wikipedia

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    The American Album of Familiar Music; The American Forum of the Air; American History Through Radio; American Portraits; The American School of the Air; Americas Answer; Amos 'n' Andy [1]: 12–17 An Evening with Romberg; The Anderson Family; The Andrews Sisters; Andy and Virginia; The Andy Russell Show; Ann of the Airlanes; Appointment with ...

  8. Invention of radio - Wikipedia

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    After radio communication was developed Lodge's lecture would become the focus of priority disputes over who invented wireless telegraphy (radio). His early demonstration and later development of radio tuning (his 1898 Syntonic tuning patent) would lead to patent disputes with the Marconi Company. When Lodge's syntonic patent was extended in ...

  9. AM broadcasting - Wikipedia

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    Until the early 1930s, it was generally accepted that Lee de Forest's series of demonstration broadcasts begun in 1907 were the first transmissions of music and entertainment by radio. However, in 1932 an article prepared by Samuel M. Kintner, a former associate of Reginald Fessenden, asserted that Fessenden had actually conducted two earlier ...