"Roger Wilco, Over." It's Public Radio Day!

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Broadcasting radio history live from Arcadia Publishing...

FIND BOOKS IN YOUR BACKYARD   |   VIEW IN BROWSER It's Public Radio Broadcasting Day! Pictured here is Sarnoff's chief engineer O.B. Hanson giving the signal at AT&T's Long Distance Building at 32 Sixth Avenue on November 15, 1926, to put NBC on the air. From New York City Radio "Roger Wilco, Over!"   On Public Radio Broadcasting Day, observed on January 13, the world celebrates a very special piece of technology — the radio. Before the great days of talkies and television, radio was America's storyteller, uniting families in their living rooms for music, news, and entertainment.  Tune in with us as we meet the "Father" of American Radio, visit the nerve center of American broadcasting, and more!   "In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence." Ira Glass Eureka! Radio crackles to life in 1906 No one person can be credited with the invention of radio. But two men in particular shaped early radio history. Lee De Forest is often called the "Father of Radio" because of his invention of the three-element "Audion" (triode) vacuum tube in 1906. He traced its inspiration to an experiment with a spark-gap transmitter, during which he wondered if the flickering of a nearby gas flame might be in response to electromagnetic pulses. Intrigued by the idea, he set out to use a flame, or ionized gases, to detect radio signals. Thus, the first Audion was born. The Audion became the first practical amplification device, making possible radio broadcasting, long distance telephone lines, and even talking motion pictures, among countless other applications. From the success of the Audion, De Forest went on to create over 300 patents, direct several radio companies, and operate radio stations in both New York City and the Bay Area in California. De Forest was inducted into the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame in 2000. Meanwhile, Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden, owner of the Fessenden Wireless Company, is credited for the first radio broadcast of entertainment and music. In 1906, on Christmas Eve, he broadcast himself playing "O Holy Night" on the violin and read a prayer that could be heard by forewarned ships at sea, and as far away as Scotland. Although Gugliermo Marconi had sent Morse code broadcasts across the sea several years earlier, no one had yet sent voice and music broadcasts. The view from the Fessenden tower in 1906 in Brant Rock, Massachusetts included a magnificent vista up Ocean Street to Brant Rock in the center of the coastline. You can learn more about his magnificent achievement in Images of America: Marshfield. A History of Inventing in New Jersey: From Thomas Edison to the Ice Cream Cone $19.99 View Bay Area Radio $21.99 View Marshfield $21.99 View Harrisburg Broadcasting $21.99 View The Golden Age of Radio  At the northeast corner of Fiftieth Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, you will see the world-famous Radio City Music Hall, home of the Rockettes. But look across the street and you will find a building that the grand hall named itself after. That building, now called "30 Rock," is the once-temple of American broadcasting, once known as Radio City. That building could be in no other place than New York City--the home base of American radio. It was here that many of the greatest radio movers and shakers began their career: inventors Lee De Forest and Maj. Edwin Armstrong; entrepreneurs and trailblazers David Sarnoff, William Paley, Bernice Judis, and Hal Jackson; beloved heroes Dan Ingram, Frankie Crocker, and Alison Steele; controversial antiheroes Don Imus, Bob Grant, and Howard Stern; and many others But New York City was not the only city buzzing with airwaves during the Golden Age of Radio. Pittsburgh was the location of many of radio's first and most influential stations and broadcast personalities. Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Radio celebrates the city's radio history, deejays, contests, concerts, public service, and promotions from radio's beginnings in the 1920s through the late 1970s, when listening on FM exceeded that on AM for the first time.  New York City Radio $21.99 View Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Radio $21.99 View Broadcasting live from small town stations... Step behind the mic with Wynn Speece, known as the Neighbor Lady, who started at WNAX 570 radio in 1941 and still broadcasts today. Learn how a chemistry teacher from Boise High School was granted a limited-commercial license and the call letters KFAU, and how this small station achieved many "firsts" in Idaho broadcasting. And travel to the Capital Region Radio where pioneer WGY provided entertainment and news nationally during World War II, WTRY kept listeners updated during the blackout of 1965, and WOKO introduced rock and roll to the area. WNAX 570 Radio: 1922-2007 $21.99 View KIDO: Boise's First Radio Station $21.99 View Capital Region Radio: 1920-2011 $21.99 View ...and the most famous cities in America Visit the Windy City where many well-known celebrities, like Gene Autry, owe their careers to the Big 89, through the famous Saturday night program The National Barn Dance. Local personalities such as Dick Biondi, Larry Lujack, and John Records Landecker became household names.  And not to be upstaged, Boston is home to nationally known bandleaders like Joe Rines and Jacques Renard, along with the first weathercaster, E. B. Rideout. The city is also known for legendary announcers, such as Bob and Ray, Arnie Ginsburg, Dick Summer, Dale Dorman, and Charles Laquidara; talk show giants like Jerry Williams and David Brudnoy; and sports talkers like Eddie Andelman and Glenn Ordway. Chicago's WLS Radio $21.99 View Boston Radio: 1920–2010 $21.99 View More in Radio Music History Rock 'n' Roll Radio Milwaukee: Stories from the Fifth Beatle $21.99 View Hidden History of Mississippi Blues $19.99 View