1920's Media | Radio Act of 1927

Law

By: U.S. Congress

Date: February 23, 1927

Source: U.S. Congress. Radio Act of 1927. Public Law No. 632, 69th Congress, February 23, 1927. Available online at http://www.geocities.com/a_h_kline/1927act.htm; website home page: http://www.geocities.com (accessed April 24, 2003).

Introduction

With the public broadcast of a program at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City in January 1910, the era of radio began. World War I (1914–1918) stymied the industry's growth, as civilian radio broadcasts were suspended. Only a handful of stations operated in the years immediately after the war. The relative economic prosperity of the 1920s created the first commercial programs and the installation of hundreds of radio stations nationwide. By the end of the decade, the...