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8 February – President of the United States, Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House. 19 February – Ed Wynn becomes the first big vaudeville star to join radio. The first broadcast is Wynn's The Perfect Fool and the station is WJZ, New York. This is also the first time in the world that a radio show is broadcast ...
The Romance of the Radiophone (1922) No single event or station introduced radio broadcasting to the entire United States. Instead, broadcasting activities evolved in many locations, slowly entering the public consciousness. By early 1922 there was enough organized activity for various publications to begin putting together national lists of ...
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Radio News, August, 1922, page 237: BROADCASTING STILL INCREASING. With the licensing of 18 more broadcasting stations recently by the Department of Commerce, the country now has 253 stations sending out news, entertainment, and Government information. On March 10, there were but 67 stations broadcasting, showing that the number has practically ...
C24.5:xxx/1. Issued annually, as of June 30th, for 1927 through 1931, by the Radio Division. (The 1928 edition also includes a broadcast station lists as of November 11, 1928). Hathi Trust scans: 1928-1929 1930-1931. C24.5:xxx/2. Issued annually, as of June 30th, for 1927 through 1931, by the Radio Division.
Jan 26, 2010 · From 1922 to 1923, the number of radio sets in America increased from 60,000 to 1.5 million. In 1922, there were 28 stations in operation; by 1924, there were 1,400. Among the biggest commercial ...
The earliest radio programs of the 1920s were largely unsponsored; radio stations were a service designed to sell radio receivers. In early 1922, American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) announced the beginning of advertisement-supported broadcasting on its owned stations, and plans for the development of the first radio network using its ...
The spread of broadcast radio was slowed during the First World War but resumed almost immediately thereafter, and by the early 1920s there were thousands of stations in this country alone. Rand McNally issued this Radio Atlas in 1922, at a time when the technology must still have been new and thrilling to millions of users.
