HISTORY OF THE OLD TIME RADIO
Before Television, Radio was the dominant home entertainment medium.
Old Time Radio (OTR) and the Golden Age of Radio refer to a period of
radio programming in the United States lasting from the proliferation of
radio broadcasting in the early 1920s until television's replacement of
radio as the dominant
home
entertainment medium in the late 1950s. During this period, when radio
was dominant and the airwaves were filled with a variety of radio
formats and genres, people regularly tuned in to their favorite radio
programs. In fact, according to a 1947 C. E. Hooper survey, 82 out of
100 Americans were found to be radio listeners.
Origins
Radio content in the Golden Age of Radio had its origins in the
theatrophone. Broadcasting began in the 1880s and 1890s with audio
recordings of musical acts and other vaudeville. These were sent to
people by means of telephone and, later, through phonograph cylinders
and discs. Visual elements, such as effects and sight gags, were adapted
to have sound equivalents. In addition, visual objects and scenery were
converted to have audio descriptions.
On
Christmas Eve 1906, Reginald Fessenden is said to have broadcast the
first radio program, consisting of some violin playing and passages from
the Bible. While Fessenden's role as an inventor and early radio
experimenter is not in dispute, several contemporary radio researchers
have questioned whether the Christmas Eve broadcast took place, or
whether the date was in fact several weeks earlier. The first apparent
published reference to event was made in 1928 by H.P. Davis, Vice
President of Westinghouse, in a lecture given at Harvard University. In
1932 Fessenden cited the Chistmas Eve 1906 broadcast event in a letter
he wrote to Vice President S.M. Kinter of Westinghouse. Fessenden's wife
Helen recounts the broadcast in her book Fessenden: Builder of Tomorrows
published in 1940, eight years after Fessenden's death. The issue of
whether the 1906 Fessenden broadcast actually happened is discussed in
Halper and Sterling's article "Seeking the Truth About Fessenden"[1] and
also in James O'Neal's essays.[2] [3] An annotated argument supporting
Fessenden as the world's first radio broadcaster was offered in 2006 by
Cambridge University educated Dr. John S. Belrose, Radioscientist
Emeritus at the Communications Research Centre Canada, in his essay
entitled "Fessenden's 1906 Christmas Eve broadcast."
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