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- 1920: First Broadcast: 1920 Presidential Election Results
- 1925: The Grand Ole Opry Spreads Country Music
- 1933-1934: FDR’s Fireside Chats Soothe A Jittery Nation
- 1938: The ‘Fight of The Century’ Reaches The Largest Radio Audience in History
- 1941: The Attack on Pearl Harbor Is Reported Live
- 1938: 'The War of The Worlds' Airs; Panic Ensues
- 1951: The ‘Shot Heard Round The World’ Leaves Sportscaster Sputtering
- 1939-1941: Edward R. Murrow Reports The Bombing of London
When Pittsburgh's KDKA aired live returns from the presidential election race between Warren Hardingand James Cox, it delivered the world's first commercial radio broadcast, according to the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates radio and TV in the U.S. Lasting 18 hours, from 6 p.m. on November 2 until noon the next day, the transmissi...
In late November of 1925, in a new show called “Barn Dance” on Nashville's WSM radio station, announcer George D. "Judge" Hay introduced the program’s first-ever performer: octogenarian fiddler Jimmy Thompson playing foot-tapping, old-time music with his niece on piano accompaniment. Two years later, Hay changed the name of the show to the “Grand O...
Between March 1933 and June 1944, through Depression and war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave 30 speeches where he spoke directly to millions of Americans through a radio broadcast. These speeches became known as the "fireside chats,” a term coined by CBS station manager Harold Butcher because of President Roosevelt’s conversational speaking s...
For their first fight on June 19, 1936, Black American boxer Joe Louis was a 10-to-1 favorite over Max Schmeling, but the German won the fight in a 12th-round knockout at Yankee Stadium. In the rematch two years later, Louis got his revenge with a technical knockout in the first round. It's hard to underestimate the cultural impact of this sporting...
As the Japanese attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, an unknown KTU reporter in Honolulu explained what was happening in real time: The reporter, transmitting his report through phone lines to NBC in New York, was providing the nation with the only live broadcast of the surprise Pearl Harbor attack. At the time of the f...
On the night of October 30, 1938, between 8:15 and 9:30 p.m., a radio dramatization of H.G. Wells' sci-fi fantasy novel The War of the Worlds, performed by 23-year-old Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre, sent thousands of Americans into a frenzy. After hearing the broadcast, many believed that an interplanetary conflict had started with the invasion of ...
The 1951 National League pennant game at New York's Polo Grounds between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants may have been the first-ever nationally televised broadcast baseball game—but it’s best known for the radio broadcast. The dramatic moment came in the final game of a three-game, winner-take-all series. The Giants were down 4-2 in t...
Between 1939 and 1941, CBS News Radio correspondent Edward R. Murrow's dramatic live reports from London during World War II made the horrors of war immediate and visceral. On September 21, 1940, as Nazi Germany bombed London, Murrow transmitted this gripping report from a rooftop: For millions who followed the war in Europe from the safety of thei...
- Farrell Evans
The Radio Historian. It’s been a full century since the first broadcasting signals from makeshift radio transmitters crackled through the headphones of early radio experimenters. Without a doubt, broadcasting in 1920 bore no resemblance to the polished, widespread communication medium we know so well today -- it was chiefly a crude outgrowth ...
Jan 17, 2024 · By Paul J. Nahin. January 17, 2024. Starting in the early 1920s, radio graduated from being a plaything of amateur tinkerers, electrical engineers, and physicists and became big business. There was no lack of entrepreneurs who served up the tantalizing possibility for newcomers to break into the fascinating new technology.
Between 1900 and 1920 the first technology for transmitting sound by radio was developed, AM (amplitude modulation), and AM broadcasting sprang up around 1920. On Christmas Eve 1906, Reginald Fessenden is said to have broadcast the first radio program, consisting of some violin playing and passages from the Bible.
