"First WEAF Commercial Continuity"

Radio advertisement

By: Queensboro Corporation
Date: August 28, 1922
Source: Queensboro Corporation. "First WEAF Commercial Continuity." August 28, 1922. Reprinted in Archer, Gleason L. History of Radio to 1926. New York: American Historical Society, 1938. Available online athttp://www.midcoast.com/~lizmcl/advt2.html; website home page: http://www.midcoast.com (accessed May 12, 2003).

Introduction

Radio at the start of the 1920s featured sporadic programming at best, with only a very limited number of broadcast stations able to send signals to a tiny population of radio receivers. But the rapid development of nationwide radio networks throughout the decade revolutionized communications in the United States and dramatically influenced the structure of American media. The American...

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