Listening to radio was a new experience in the early 1920s, and boys were ardent enthusiasts of the emerging technology. Bettmann/Corbis __1920: __The Joseph Horne department store in Pittsburgh ...

September 15, 1921: WBZ was the first station licensed as a "commercial" radio station, located in East Springfield, MA. September 19, 1921: WBZ s first broadcast from the Eastern States Exposition in ...

When you think high-tech, what comes to mind? Wi-Fi? Artificial intelligence? Smartphones with more computing horsepower than the Apollo moon missions? A century ago, radio was the technology of the ...

We conclude our series about the early days of broadcasting before and around the famous KDKA broadcast 100 years ago. See other recent articles in the Radio @100 series. In any important endeavor ...

Prior to the advent of radio broadcasting, this was a common scene in U.S. cities and towns, with citizens flocking to newspaper offices for updates on breaking news events. The crowd in this ...

Smithsonian Associates presents a new series of educational programs, “The 1920s: Daring To Be Modern,” highlighting the years that followed World War I when the world was fascinated by the new. It ...

Broadcasters keep popping up in the news. Broadcasting — distributing radio and television content for public audiences — has been around for a century, but is facing a uniquely challenging landscape ...

Go to updated and illustrated post. 1920: The Joseph Horne department store in Pittsburgh advertises ready-made radio receivers that can pick up a local broadcast station. Commercial radio is just ...