In Australia the Federal Government through the Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1905.
National Anthem broadcast from one building to another at the end of a lecture by George Fisk given on the new medium to the Royal Society of NSW on August 19, 1919.
The radio during the 1930-1945 during the great depression meant that jobless americans could tune-in for relief and psychological support.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's "fireside chats" became enormously successful and attracted more listeners than the most popular radio shows during the "Golden Age of Radio."
Orson Well's take when interviews in the 70s... Back then radio was really big and the message in the Youtube clip was incredibly powerful as everyone believed it.
The "Golden" Age - AM Radio is still thriving. Transistors made radios smaller. New formats such as Top 40s became popular (1945-1960s).
FM increased in popularity during the 1960s to 80s.
1980 meant the emergence of Talk Radio (a chance to "talk back") Rise of personalities, relaxed on ownership following 1980 deregulation. More stations per owner. Emergence of satellite radio, digital broadcasts and internet streaming.
TV
1924 - Baird (UK) - Demonstrate the transmission of transporting images over the wire.
April 30, 1939 the NBC officially began regularly scheduled television broadcasts in New York with a broadcast of the opening of the 1939 new York World's Fair.
In Australia...
Television began as early as 1929 in Melbourne, and later for example 1934 in Brisbane with experimental transmissions by an experimental station.
The first line of a television broadcast - 16 September 1956, fifty-two years ago, and Bruce Gyngell greets Sydney on a night that made history: television was now here, finally. Australians had to wait twenty years for TV ....
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