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Radio programming is the content that is broadcast by radio stations. For the band see Broadcast (band Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or Video signals which transmit This article is about radio broadcasting for other uses see Radio (disambiguation.

The original inventors of radio, such as Nikola Tesla and Guglielmo Marconi, expected it to be used for one-on-one communication tasks where telephones and telegraphs could not be used because of the impossibility of stringing wires from one point to another, such as in ship-to-shore communications. There have already been discussions about Tesla's ethnicity on the talk page Marchese Guglielmo Marconi mar'koni (25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937 was an Italian inventor best known for his development of a Radiotelegraph system Basic principle A traditional landline telephone system also known as "plain old telephone service" (POTS, commonly handles both signaling and audio information These inventors had no expectations whatever that radio would become a major mass entertainment and information medium earning many millions of dollars in revenues annually through commercial sponsorship. These latter uses were brought about after 1920 by business entrepreneurs such as David Sarnoff, who created the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), and later William S. Paley, who built the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's William Samuel Paley ( September 28, 1901 &ndash October 26, 1990) was the chief executive who built Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. These broadcasting (as opposed to narrowcasting) business organizations began to be called networks, because they consisted of loose chains of individual stations located in various cities, all transmitting the standard overall-system supplied fare, often at synchronized agreed-upon times. Some of these stations were owned by the networks, while others were owned by independent businessmen allied with the respective networks. By selling blocks of time to advertisers for commercial announcements, the medium was able to quickly become profitable and offer its products to listeners for free, provided they invested in a radio receiver set. The new medium grew extremely quickly though the 1920's, vastly increasing both the size of its audience and its profits. In these early days, it was customary for a corporation to sponsor an entire half-hour radio program, placing its commercials at the beginning and the end. This is in contrast to the pattern which developed late in the 20th century in both television and radio, where small slices of time were sold to many sponsors and no corporation claimed or wanted sponsorship of the entire show, except in rare cases. These later commercials also filled a much larger portion of the total program time than they had in the earlier days.

In the early radio age, content typically included a balance of comedy, drama, news, music and sports reporting. U. S. radio programs included the most famous Hollywood talent of the day. Radio soap operas began in the U. A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. S. in 1930 with Painted Dreams. Painted Dreams was a Radio Soap opera, generally recognized as the first soap opera program in the United States Despite radio's majority use being spoken entertainment, the Grand Ole Opry, as of 2006 being the longest-running radio program, has been focused on broadcasting country music since it began in 1925. The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly Country music radio program and concert broadcast live on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, television eroded the popularity of radio comedy, drama and variety shows. The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949 Events and trends The 1940s was a period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s which also leads the period to be The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic By the late 1950s, radio broadcasting took on much the form it has today — strongly focused on music, news and sports, though drama can still be heard, especially on the BBC.

In Britain during the 1950s, radio broadcasting was dominated entirely by the BBC. Rock and pop music fans, dissatisfied with the BBC's output, often listened to Radio Luxembourg. Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African Pop music as a genre features a noticeable rhythmic element catchy melodies and hooks, a mainstream style and conventional structure Radio Luxembourg is a commercial broadcaster in many languages from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. During the post-1964 period, western Europe offshore radio (such as Radio Caroline broadcasting from ships at anchor or abandoned forts) helped to supply the demand for the pop and rock music. Radio Caroline is a European Radio station that started transmissions on Easter Sunday 1964 from a ship anchored in International waters off the coast of The BBC launched their own pop music station, BBC Radio 1 in 1967. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar.

In South Asia, Radio Ceylon (the oldest radio station in the region) was the King of the Airwaves from the 1950s and 1960s. Radio Ceylon is the oldest Radio station in Asia. Broadcasting was started on an experimental basis in Ceylon by the Telegraph Department Broadcasting in Ceylon was launched by British Engineer, Edward Harper in 1925. For the musician see Edward Harper (musician Edward Harper was an engineer who travelled to Colombo in 1921 to work in the Ceylon Telegraph Department Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Radio Ceylon became a public corporation in 1967 and was known as the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation when the island turned into a republic in 1972. The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC came into existence on January 5th 1967 when Radio Ceylon became a public corporation Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Old Time Radio/OTR

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in what is now called old-time radio with surviving shows being traded and collected in reel-to-reel, cassette, CD, MP3 formats and internet download. Old-Time Radio (OTR and the Golden Age of Radio refer to a period of Radio programming lasting from the proliferation of radio broadcasting in the early 1920s until The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a Magnetic tape sound MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a Digital audio encoding format using a form of Lossy data compression Some of the most popular shows were Honest Harold, Amos and Andy, Burns and Allen, Colgate Comedy classics. On Sunday January 1 1956 at 11PM, there were plans to broadcast the final Comedy Hour both on radio and television. This was to be final show before format changed. The show planned to invite the three major teams in the world of comedy: Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, and Martin and Lewis for an hour (plus) special. 1956 was the last year those teams were together. All three teams had a radio show of their own in the late 1940's and early 1950's.

Old Time Radio/OTR

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