History of broadcasting | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 08/01/2019

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00:02:42 1 Early broadcasting
00:02:51 1.1 Argentina
00:05:24 1.2 Australia
00:06:41 1.2.1 Formative years
00:07:17 1.2.2 Experiments with broadcasting music
00:08:04 1.2.3 Sealed set system
00:09:02 1.2.4 Categories in Australia from 1924
00:10:49 1.2.5 Types of programs
00:13:08 1.2.6 Early experiments with television
00:13:43 1.2.7 Mobile stations
00:17:04 1.3 Canada
00:22:23 1.4 Cuba
00:23:59 1.5 France
00:25:36 1.6 Germany
00:27:26 1.7 Japan
00:28:34 1.8 Mexico
00:30:06 1.9 Netherlands
00:30:35 1.10 Philippines
00:32:31 1.11 Sri Lanka
00:34:22 1.12 United Kingdom
00:36:32 1.13 United States
00:38:50 1.13.1 1920s
00:42:22 2 1950s and 1960s
00:42:34 2.1 Australia
00:45:22 2.2 Germany
00:46:30 2.3 Sri Lanka
00:48:00 2.4 United Kingdom
00:49:50 2.5 United States
00:51:50 3 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s
00:52:03 3.1 Australia
00:54:02 3.2 Europe
00:54:43 3.3 Sri Lanka
00:56:13 3.4 United Kingdom
00:58:45 3.5 United States
01:00:25 4 The 2000s
01:01:15 4.1 Australia
01:02:11 4.2 Canada
01:02:32 4.3 Europe
01:02:50 4.4 Sri Lanka
01:03:26 4.5 United States
01:04:26 5 See also



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The first broadcasting of a radio transmission consisted of Morse code (or wireless telegraphy) was made from a temporary station set up by Guglielmo Marconi in 1895. This followed on from pioneering work in the field by Alessandro Volta, André-Marie Ampère, Georg Ohm, James Clerk Maxwell and Heinrich Hertz. The broadcasting of music and talk via radio started experimentally around 1905-1906, and commercially around 1920 to 1923. VHF (very high frequency) stations started 30 to 35 years later.
In the early days, radio stations broadcast on the long wave, medium wave and short wave bands, and later on VHF (very high frequency) and UHF (ultra high frequency). However, in the United Kingdom, Hungary, France and some other places, from as early as 1890 there was already a system whereby news, music, live theatre, music hall, fiction readings, religious broadcasts, etc., were available in private homes [and other places] via the conventional telephone line, with subscribers being supplied with a number of special, personalised headsets. In Britain this system was known as Electrophone, and was available as early as 1895 or 1899 [sources vary] and up until 1926. In Hungary, it was called Telefon Hírmondó [1893-1920s], and in France, Théâtrophone [1890-1932]). The Wikipedia Telefon Hírmondó page includes a 1907 program guide which looks remarkably similar to the types of schedules used by many broadcasting stations some 20 or 30 years later.
By the 1950s, virtually every country had a broadcasting system, typically one owned and operated by the government. Alternative modes included commercial radio, as in the United States; or a dual system with both state sponsored and commercial stations, introduced in Australia as early as 1924, with Canada following in 1932. Today, most countries have evolved into a dual system,  including the UK. By 1955, practically every family in North America and Western Europe, as well as Japan, had a radio. A dramatic change came in the 1960s with the introduction of small inexpensive portable transistor radio, the greatly expanded ownership and usage.  Access became practically universal across the world.