Go to updated and illustrated post. 1920: The Joseph Horne department store in Pittsburgh advertises ready-made radio receivers that can pick up a local broadcast station. Commercial radio is just ...

Last month we looked at radio cabinetry. This month we take a look at one of its examples, a 1929 RCA Radiola 46 in a high boy console. David Sarnoff (*1), a Belarusian born immigrant, led the Radio ...

When you think high-tech, what comes to mind? Wi-Fi? Artificial intelligence? Smartphones with more computing horsepower than the Apollo moon missions? A century ago, radio was the technology of the ...

Henry Ford (seated) asked to see WSB when he visited Atlanta in 1922. Henry Ford (seated) asked to see WSB when he visited Atlanta in 1922. At far right is Maj. John S. Cohen, editor and publisher of ...

We conclude our series about the early days of broadcasting before and around the famous KDKA broadcast 100 years ago. See other recent articles in the Radio @100 series. In any important endeavor ...

September 15, 1921: WBZ was the first station licensed as a "commercial" radio station, located in East Springfield, MA. September 19, 1921: WBZ s first broadcast from the Eastern States Exposition in ...

Prior to the advent of radio broadcasting, this was a common scene in U.S. cities and towns, with citizens flocking to newspaper offices for updates on breaking news events. The crowd in this ...