Wednesday, October 17, 2012

The Pre-War Years: From the Start


The Pre-War Years: From the Start
1886
  • Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates the telephone, ushering in the broadcasting age, and the eventual dawning of television.

1897
  • Guglielmo Marconi establishes the world's first radio station on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom.

1906
  • The first time a significantly powerful signal carrying voice and music takes place, when Reginald Fessenden made a Christmas Eve broadcast to ships at sea from Massachusetts in United States. 

1909
  • First documented radio transmission begins at KCBS in San Jose in the United States (now of CBS of the United States). 

1920
  • Broadcasting begins in Europe as the BBC of the United Kingdom becomes the world's first broadcaster.

1923
  • Radio Ceylon (now Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation) becomes the first radio station, and the oldest broadcaster, in Asia.

1925
  • John Logie Baird invents television.

1928
  • Broadcasting in the Philippines begins, as the Manila Broadcasting Corporation is the first broadcaster in the Philippines, via its legendary radio station--the first Philippine radio station DZRH--with the Elizalde family buying it from its American owners later on.
  • January 13: The United States becomes the world's first nation to introduce TV. WRGB, the first TV station of CBS, becomes the world's first television station.

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