Radio In 1934

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"By 1934, radio was well entrenched as a source of news and entertainment for the American public. In the 1920s, radio has been seen primarily as a budding vehicle for music, humor, and news, and music was the strongest programming form (McMahon 19).

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"By 1934, radio was well entrenched as a source of news and entertainment for the American public. In the 1920s, radio has been seen primarily as a budding vehicle for music, humor, and news, and music was the strongest programming form (McMahon 19). Radio was the first truly mass medium of communication, reaching millions of people instantly and altering social attitudes, family relationships, and people's relationships to their environment. Complaints about broadcasting and many of the solutions offered sound very much like controversies still raging today, though the focus has shifted from radio to television.
American radio as a commercial medium came into being in 1920 with the first broadcast of KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The first scheduled, non-experimental, public program broadcast on radio was an evening program of the results..."

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