MCOM 1300 Lecture 9: Unit III - Chap 7 -Growth of Broadcasting
2 Nov 2016
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Dr. lee deforest, the father of radio, made the first news broadcast on november. He reported the returns from the wilson-hughes presidential election: world war i radio greatly restricted private broadcasting. David sarnoff, another radio pioneer, began advocating radio as a household utility in the same sense as the piano or phonograph. He became a principal in the radio corporation of american when it was formed in 1919. Newspapers, helped start many stations as a kind of novelty. They thought it would be a good way to tease listeners and get them to purchase newspapers: companies like ge, westinghouse and rca also helped to start stations so they could sell the receiving sets. In 1024 the everready battery company began to sponsor programs on radio stations as n experiment. Now there was a profit incentive to start a radio station and many stations now began to develop.
