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Consisted of 27 stations (3 owned and operated and up to 24 "phantom stations" – time leased on affiliated radio stations. WEAF chain. Broadcasting Company of America. Northeast and Midwest United States. 1923–1926. Regional network of AT&T -owned radio stations with New York City radio station WEAF as its hub.
Radio broadcasting has been used in the United States since the early 1920s to distribute news and entertainment to a national audience. In 1923, 1 percent of U.S. households owned at least one radio receiver, while a majority did by 1931 and 75 percent did by 1937. [ 1][ 2] It was the first electronic "mass medium" technology, and its ...
Radio stations in United States have evolved since their early twentieth-century origins. In 1920 8MK started operations in Detroit; after it, thousands of private and public radio have operated in the United States.
Urban oldies radio stations in the United States (28 P) Pages in category "Oldies radio stations in the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 363 total.
The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio ( OTR) era, was an era of radio in the United States where it was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium. It began with the birth of commercial radio broadcasting in the early 1920s and lasted through the 1950s, when television gradually superseded radio as the medium of ...
FM radio channel assignments in the U.S. In the United States, FM broadcasting stations operate on a 20.2 MHz-wide frequency band, spanning from 87.8 MHz to 108 MHz. This is divided into 101 0.2 MHz-wide channels, which are designated as channels 200 through 300. In actual practice, few except the FCC use these channel numbers; the frequencies ...
The original radio stations were primarily used for private point-to-point communication. The early 1920s saw the introduction of radio broadcasting, and by the end of 1922 there were over 500 broadcasting stations operating in the United States. Most of the first broadcasting stations received randomly assigned three-letter call signs.
The first public radio network in the United States was founded in 1949 in Berkeley, California, as station KPFA, which became and remains the flagship station for a national network called Pacifica Radio. From the beginning, the network has refused corporate funding of any kind, and has relied mainly on listener support.