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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