FIRST RADIO BROADCAST
Made by KDKA
“They chose that date because it was election day, and the power of radio was proven when people could hear the results of the Harding-Cox presidential race before they read about it in the newspaper.”
First in Pittsburgh
AM broadcasting began 1920 while FM broadcasting was introduced in the late 1930s and was a little better than AM broadcasting.
Transcript of the first words of the recording "Good evening, this is professor Reginald A Fessenden speaking to you from Brad Rock Massuchusits at the tower of the National electric signaling company. I'm going to play an Edison recording of Handoffs live goal, Next i will play O’ holy night on the violin, followed by a short passage from the Bible.” The first ever attempted radio broadcast was in 1898 by Guglielmo Marconi who was an italian inventor experimenting with electromagnetic waves to send signals which failed.
This broadcast was 100 years ago as of November 2, 2020
Guglielmo Marconi was also the one who successfully made the first radio broadcast, meaning he was working on it for around 10 years before his invention became successful.
The first radio broadcast went as far as 116 light years or 6.819e+14 miles
They started the radio in Bluff Bland Rock Massachusetts which was right next to a sea and the people sailing there ships on that sea got to experience the broadcast while on sea so that amazed them.
After the first radio broadcast, radio broadcasting kept growing and growing and getting more and more popular and amazing tons of new people. In the 1920’s is where it hit its most- popular stage, getting most people with money to listen to them. After the 1920’s the radio was grabbing tons of people's attention because it was one of the first ever successful inventions, 2nd in line with the telephone which was invented in 1876. As of today radios have grown to be really, really advanced, at least a lot better than the ones in the 1900’s. In the first radios they didn't have any buttons and an expensive and good radio was one with around two buttons which now a cheap radio for us would still have at least four buttons. By mid-decade in the 1920’s a decent radio could be purchased for about $35, with higher quality models being sold for up to $350, now a decent radio can be purchased for around $50-$100 and a really good one could be purchased with up to $5000!