[SFDXA] Telecommunications History: Broadcasting

[Bill]

The advent of radio broadcasting

In 1893, inventor Nikola Tesla gave the first public demonstration of radio technology in St. Louis, touching off a new era in communication. Experimentation and refinements eventually led up to the broadcast of the first radio program, which took place in 1906. On Christmas Eve, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden broadcast two pieces of music, a short talk and the reading of a poem from his station in Brant Rock, Massachusetts, and his program could be heard aboard ships hundreds of miles offshore. Many others followed in his footsteps, starting their own experimental radio stations. Among these was David Sarnoff, the future head of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), who envisioned a day when a radio would be a “household utility,” similar to a piano or phonograph.

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