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That growth was matched with radio sales, as 52,500 radio sets were sold in Canada in 1928. By 1931, that number had jumped to 173,200. Even in the midst of the Great Depression, the radio industry was growing. With the expansion in the number of stations and radio sales across the country, national programming became a possibility in the late ...
The timeline of radio lists within the history of radio, the technology and events that produced instruments that use radio waves and activities that people undertook. Later, the history is dominated by programming and contents, which is closer to general history .
Telegraphy did not go away on radio. Instead, the degree of automation increased. On land-lines in the 1930s, teletypewriters automated encoding, and were adapted to pulse-code dialing to automate routing, a service called telex. For thirty years, telex was the cheapest form of long-distance communication, because up to 25 telex channels could ...
Starting with experimental broadcasts by station XWA (later CFCF), whose studios were located here, French- and English-language radio brought news, debates, concerts, and sporting events into the homes of Canadians, changing the way they consumed information and entertainment.
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Two of the men survived. The CRBC made Willis’s reports available to all Canadian radio stations and over 650 stations in the U. S. as well as the BBC in Britain. Another major event covered by the CRBC was to provide, for the first time, nation-wide coverage of a federal election. CRBC Woes
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By the early 20th century, radio broadcasting had emerged as a powerful medium for entertainment, news, and communication. The first scheduled radio broadcast took place in 1920 when station KDKA in Pittsburgh aired the results of the U.S. presidential election. This historic event marked the beginning of a new era in mass communication.
