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- Golden Age of American radio, period lasting roughly from 1930 through the 1940s, when the medium of commercial broadcast radio grew into the fabric of daily life in the United States, providing news and entertainment to a country struggling with economic depression and war.
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Trade publications, like Radio (published 1921-1947), were developed for the growing industry of travelling salesmen selling radio sets door to door. Although it was hard to measure the impact at first, radio advertising quickly became an area of serious commercial, consumer and academic research.
By the end of 1922, the United States government had licensed 570 radio stations. In the mid-1920s, AT&T hit on a new way to fund broadcasting: the company initiated the practice of selling airtime on its New York station to other businesses. Such radio advertising caught on over the decade, thanks to the endorsement of the federal government.
Golden Age of American radio, period lasting roughly from 1930 through the 1940s, when the medium of commercial broadcast radio grew into the fabric of daily life in the United States, providing news and entertainment to a country struggling with economic depression and war.
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Aug 6, 2018 · This essay traces the trajectory of American radio broadcasting across the first half of the 20 th century, broken down into the rise of radio in the 1920s, its groundbreaking establishment as a cultural and commercial institution over the decisive 1927-1936 period, its heyday as a social and political institution from 1936 to 1946, and its grad...
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Aug 12, 2021 · For three decades starting in 1920, radio revolutionized American culture. At a time when most citizens still lived outside of big cities, radio technology—which allowed sound signals to be...
