Beginnings of Broadcasting
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BROADCASTING BEGINS
The following short paper is a resume and analysis of an article written by Susan J. Douglas. The title of the article is "Broadcasting Begins" and it speaks of the how the American population discovered and came to adore the concept of broadcasting and redio.
It seems that radio came about very suddenly, in the spring of 1922. Prior to this date, radio was a very unknown and, in some ways, unappreciated, phenomenon. Back in 1922 the development of radio was the newest, most extreme, and undeniably, the finest past time that the people of America had come across for years. Even the president, Herbert Hoover, himself described at as a "wireless fever". The American press were anxious to get a share in the nation's excitement and numerous broadcasting stations were thus set up across the country. Also, as a result, within the first three years of the 'radio boom' the turnover from sales of receiver sets had multiplied six times over, form $60 million in 1922 to $358 million in 1924.
This new found hobby was thought of as being very challenging...