1961 FM Stereo Broadcasting is authorized. Commercial production of IC's is begun by several companies. The satellite Telstar transmits video images across the Atlantic. The E.B.S. - Emergency Broadcasting System is developed. This is a test of the emergency broadcast system.
Cassette tape is introduced.
The first communications satellite is placed in geo-synchronous orbit. 1964 Table and Clock radios are produced at over 3 million per year, a figure that holds steady from 1960 to 1965. The FCC rules that AM-FM combo's must run different programs on the two stations at least half the time. 1965 New Vacuum Tube receivers are almost non-existent as transistors have taken over the market. All told, between 1922 and 1965, over 300 million radio receivers were manufactured in the United States.