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  2. History of radio - Wikipedia

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    The early history of radio is the history of technology that produces and uses radio instruments that use radio waves. Within the timeline of radio, many people contributed theory and inventions in what became radio. Radio development began as "wireless telegraphy".

  3. Timeline of radio - Wikipedia

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    The timeline of radio lists within the history of radio, the technology and events that produced instruments that use radio waves and activities that people undertook. Later, the history is dominated by programming and contents, which is closer to general history .

  4. Radio - Wikipedia

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    An antenna farm hosting various radio antennas on Sandia Peak near Albuquerque, New Mexico, US. Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 3 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connected to ...

  5. Invention of radio - Wikipedia

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    Invention of radio. A French ship-to-shore radio station in 1904. The invention of radio communication was preceded by many decades of establishing theoretical underpinnings, discovery and experimental investigation of radio waves, and engineering and technical developments related to their transmission and detection.

  6. Radio in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Radio broadcasting has been used in the United States since the early 1920s to distribute news and entertainment to a national audience. In 1923, 1 percent of U.S. households owned at least one radio receiver, while a majority did by 1931 and 75 percent did by 1937. [1][2] It was the first electronic "mass medium" technology, and its ...

  7. Golden Age of Radio - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio (OTR) era, was an era of radio in the United States where it was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium. It began with the birth of commercial radio broadcasting in the early 1920s and lasted through the 1950s, when television gradually superseded radio as the medium of choice ...

  8. List of oldest radio stations - Wikipedia

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    Consisted of 27 stations (3 owned and operated and up to 24 "phantom stations" – time leased on affiliated radio stations. WEAF chain. Broadcasting Company of America. Northeast and Midwest United States. 1923–1926. Regional network of AT&T -owned radio stations with New York City radio station WEAF as its hub.

  9. FM broadcasting in the United States - Wikipedia

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    FM radio channel assignments in the U.S. In the United States, FM broadcasting stations operate on a 20.2 MHz-wide frequency band, spanning from 87.8 MHz to 108 MHz. This is divided into 101 0.2 MHz-wide channels, which are designated as channels 200 through 300. In actual practice, few except the FCC use these channel numbers; the frequencies ...