American Decades

Important Events in the Media, 1920–1929

AT&T, GE, and RCA enter into a cross-licensing agreement for radio broadcasting.
The Freeman is founded in New York by Francis Neilson and Albert Jay Nock as a mildly radical journal.
Screenland magazine is founded.
The Dial is founded by Scofield Thayer as a journal receptive to avant-garde literature.
On January 5, Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is officially launched with a capital value of $20 million.
On November 2, station KDKA in Pittsburgh makes the first radio broadcast for the general public when it announces the Harding-Cox presidential election returns. Although less than a thousand radios are tuned in, the broadcast stimulates the nation's interest in radio.

Love Story magazine (Street & Smith) commences publication; it begins as a quarterly but soon becomes a weekly.
George T....

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