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Gugliemo Marconi
transmitted wireless messages across the English channel in 1896, across the Atlantic in 1901
-father of radio
nikola tesla
disputed that he invented radio in 1895
Ham radio operators
- Thousands of early experimenters (early ‘hackers’)
- Radio kits marketed at young boys
- Crowding of airwaves
Radio Act of 1912
- After the Titanic disaster
- required wireless operators to be licensed by the federal government
Radio Act of 1927
- Government owns the airwaves, stations have to apply for licenses
- Trustee model (gov’t is trustee for public good)
Communications Act of 1934
replaced the Federal Radio Commission with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
trustee model
the government is the trustee for public good
FDR
fireside chats
King George VI
the king’s speech
spectrum scarcity
regulation placed over radio licenses because of limited broadcast spectrum space
AM
- Amplitude modulation
- Can travel farther
- Good for rural areas with large areas, small audiences
FM
- Frequency modulation
- Shorter distance
- Often in large cities
- Larger audience
Orson Welles
wrote War of the Worlds radio play
War of the Worlds
radio play everyone thought was real
iheartmedia
radio conglomerate