Radio Broadcast (May-Oct 1922)

Record Details:

Title:
Radio Broadcast
Date:
May-Oct 1922
Publisher:
Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company [etc.]
Volume:
Radio broadcast ..
Leaf #:
00045
Language:
English
Subjects:
radio periodical, Radio -- Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Recorded Sound Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Radio Broadcast supported home listeners of the new technology of radio – for building or buying a receiving set to explaining the technology used by the new radio stations. Throughout the magazine shows the cultural influence of radio as it evolved from hobbyist to mainstream. -- David Pierce, 2011
Date Added:
July 18, 2024
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RADIO BROADCAST 19 one. The radio-phone is not practical for communication between individuals, because the air will not stand sufficient traffic to enable any number of individuals to use it at the same time. Its main forte, therefore, is in the matter of broadcasting, where it is desired to bring to 'the attention of a large audience certain facts Qr reports or even music for their information, education, and entertainment. The wire tele But the radio telephone has made good, after all its years of toil under an unlucky star. It has not put the wire telephone out of business, and never will; it has not come down to the vest-pocket or vanity-case type, as yet, and probably never will; it has not afforded us ready means of communicating one with the other, and never can so long as the space or ether is so limited. But it has united an entire HAMMONDS COMPREHENSIVE MAP UNITED STATES CANADA and MEXICO RECEIVING STATIONS THAT HAVE REPORTED HEARING WJZ, THE WESTINGHOUSE BROADCASTING STATION AT NEWARK phone continues to be the best and only medium for communication between individuals, except in a few exceptional cases, while the radio telephone is the only satisfactory means of spreading facts or music over a wide territory and to hundreds of thousands of listeners. Here again is a touch of romance, for the radio telephone is being developed along lines which were never foreseen by the pioneer workers. nation into one huge audience which, for the first time in the history of the world, can be addressed from the various broadcasting stations, entertained with the world's best music, and otherwise kept in touch with the affairs at home and abroad. It has annihilated distances, and any citizen may now keep in touch with the latest developments even in distant cities and markets.