Talk:History of broadcasting

message: This doesn't read well, in the Britain section:
"Its governors are appointed by the government but they did not answer to it."
Could it be changed to (change in italics):
"Its governors were appointed by the government but they did not answer to it."
or alternatively, if this is what the writer was trying to get across:
"Its governors were (and still are) appointed by the government but they did not answer to it."
--Justynb 21:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Odd use of tenses?

message: I'm dubious of the claim that Charles Herrod coined the term "broadcasting". Here's a quote from a webpage I found that relates to the term:
:After the Navy Department, the Agriculture Department had been the government agency most involved in pioneering radio work. In particular, it wanted to speed weather and market information to isolated farmers, at that time dependent on mailed daily newspapers. (The August, 1913 Monthly Catalogue of United States Documents noted that the Weather Bureau had begun a daily radiotelegraphic "broadcast" of weather reports, which it explained as follows: "'Broadcast', as the term is used in the Radio Service, means that the message is fired out into the illimitable ether to be picked up and made use of by anybody who has the will and the apparatus to possess himself thereof".) 
At that time the Weather Bureau was part of the Agricultural Department, so its adoption of an agricultural term for sending out a signal to be received by many seems quite logical.  I'm not disputing that Herrod was involved in early voice broadcasts, merely that he was one who originated the term.  He certainly did not use it to describe his work in 1910. Instead he described his activities at that time as "wireless phone concerts"  Caerwine Caer’s whines 23:49, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin of the term "broadcasting"

message: This article utilizes an interesting structure which separates the broadcasting histories of various countries and presents the differences in their evolutions.  It presents several clear points about the evolution of broadcasting, but fails to discuss much of what makes those points significant.  For example, much is said about Charles Herrold and his early experiments with broadcasting, but no reason is given for why he is important other than he is the self-proclaimed “inventor of broadcasting.”  However, this claim runs contrary to information contained in the article which states that one of the first significant broadcasts was accomplished in Massachusetts by Reginald Fessenden in 1906, while Charles Herrold did not begin broadcasting until 1909 in California.  In fact, there is no mention of how these two men or events are intertwined other than the fact that one precedes the other, and this is a recurring problem throughout the article.  If the article explained the importance of each event it lists, and not simply the order in which they occurred, it would make the history of broadcasting much more apparent to the common person searching for information about it.
	For the most part, the citations provided for this article are authoritative enough to satisfy most of the claims for which they are given, but there are a few which are questionable.  Reference number ten is a link to what appears to be someone’s personal blog and shouldn’t be accepted as any sort of credible source.  Reference number Fifteen is a link to a website which provides no author or source of its information which also calls its credibility into question.  Reference fourteen is a dead link altogether.  There is also the issue that there are large sections of this article which provide no citations at all.  They seem well written enough to be factual statements, but without sources how can they be deemed true?
	Overall, the article is well written and the facts presented are easily comprehended, but why one should be concerned with such facts is usually not evident.  It appears that the much of the article was written by a person or persons which have a lot of personal knowledge on the subject.  Most of the statements made seem true enough, but are not sufficiently reinforced by credible sources.  The article provides an excellent framework within which the history of broadcasting may be presented however, it leaves much room for improvement in the way of amplifying information.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by HIST406-10gbelaga (talk • contribs) 19:12, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  General Critique of Article 

message: The order in which the history of broadcasting in various countries appears, is quite subjective. I suggest that country sections should be alphabetical.  What do others think?
Albert Isaacs (talk) 00:49, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Order of Countries 

message: I created a new article called the History of broadcasting in Australia, with most of the text was here, and some from the article on ABC. I added some entirely new material and new bibliography. The problem with the section here on Australia is that it is delving deeply into minutiae and taking up too much proportional space for an article that has to cover the entire world. Rjensen (talk) 08:48, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spinoff to history of broadcasting in Australia 

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message: I am moving the following uncited material here until it can be properly supported with inline citations of reliable, secondary sources, per WP:V, WP:NOR, WP:CS, WP:NOR, WP:IRS, WP:PSTS, et al. This diff shows where it was in the article. Nightscream (talk) 16:01, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Uncited material in need of citations