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A probable first public broadcast of sound and music- as opposed to code and cipher occured in the Christmas season of l906 Broadcast was superintended by one Reginald Fessenden, a Canadian engineer. The equipment used did not utilize tubes which were then just coming out- achieved high-fidelity broadcast of- what else Christmas Carols ( O Holy Night being the lead-off song) and was sponsore by the the National Electric Signal Company- a remote antecedent to NBC. The Broadcast was from a land transmission tower- about 400 feet up- a record for a purpose-built radio antenna for the day- before they started using already- built skyscrapers like Eiffel and Empire State- and still do.
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∙ 10y agoScholars have been debating that for decades; by most accounts, the year that commercial radio began was 1920 (the stations did not play commercials yet, but they were owned by businesses, who saw the new mass medium of radio as a good way to attract some positive attention to their company). The real debate is over which station made the first broadcast. Some people believe KDKA in Pittsburgh was first, but it was not. Probably the first American station was 8MK (later known as WWJ) in Detroit, which went on the air in August of 1920; KDKA went on the air in late October. But there are several other stations that were also broadcasting, including XWA (later CFCF) in Montreal Canada; 1XE (later WGI) in Medford Hillside, Massachusetts; and stations in Madison, Wisconsin and San José, California are also mentioned as early examples.
It should also be noted that some ham (amateur) radio stations were on the air too. And some historians believe that Charles "Doc" Herrold and his wife Sybil put a very early college radio station on the air in 1912. Unfortunately, there was no audiotape yet, nor any tangible way to prove who was first-- some newspapers mentioned the early stations, but other newspapers saw them as competition and ignored them. So, we may never know who really made the very first broadcast.
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