The First Radio Station

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  • čas přidán 15. 02. 2009
  • The first radio station went on the air in 1909 in San Jose CA. One hundred years later that station is KCBS in San Francisco. Two San Jose State University professors did the research and tell the story, in a book, and in a PBS documentary. This is an excerpt from producer Mike Adams, "Broadcasting's Forgotten Father: The Charles Herrold Story."

Komentáře • 47

  • @spacerazer
    @spacerazer Před 4 lety +7

    I got a build your own crystal radio set in 1967. The instructions made it easy to construct in one afternoon.

  • @QuaaludeCharlie
    @QuaaludeCharlie Před 8 lety +21

    They had to build their own radio's , They Loved it :) QC

  • @cysper479
    @cysper479 Před 4 lety +10

    2:44 lol his reaction was priceless XD

  • @leonardoandrade9906
    @leonardoandrade9906 Před 3 lety +7

    The first radio transmition in the world was in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in August 1920. It was made from the terrace of the Coliseo Theatre and 4 men, called "the crazies of the terrace", broadcasted live the opera "Parsifal" by Wagner, which was being perfomed at that moment in the theatre.

    • @salty-as-heck9915
      @salty-as-heck9915 Před 2 lety +7

      Marconi would beg to disagree. Try 1895 in the Isle of Wight, UK, as the place where the first broadcast of radio ever took place. Argentina was the first Spanish language country to do a radio broadcast, in 1920, but not the first ever.

    • @onlooker774
      @onlooker774 Před 4 dny

      ​@@salty-as-heck9915 We need to take these things sorted... Marconi was first to experiment and use wireless telegraph, and he was used spark transmitter invented by others, not himself, and which any way did not last long as proven to be a dead-end branch of radio evolution. Fessenden was the one who invented AM modulation over a continuous wave (CW), first RF generator was built by Westinghouse according to his requirements and had first voice and music broadcast (not telegraphing morse) back in 1906! Fessenden is a true inventor of radio as we know it today!

  • @FelixTheHouseFreak
    @FelixTheHouseFreak Před 14 lety +4

    Awesome, wish there was more of this.

  • @chocholatemilkshake4799
    @chocholatemilkshake4799 Před 3 lety +2

    Amazing

  • @jeffking4176
    @jeffking4176 Před 5 lety +5

    Very interesting🙂❗️
    Also very cool .
    This I’ve not heard of.
    📻👍🙂‼️

  • @abdullah9659
    @abdullah9659 Před 10 lety +3

    brilliant I love this ive done some radio broadcast videos myself its great to hear things from the past.

  • @upenboro3059
    @upenboro3059 Před 4 lety +2

    Wonderful

  • @onlooker774
    @onlooker774 Před 4 dny

    Any time someone is talking about radio invention, and especially wireless telephony (ie not telegraphing morse code but transmitting voice), should mention a true inventor Reginald Aubrey Fessenden. It is not Marconi, it is Fessenden we should praise!

  • @Muonium1
    @Muonium1 Před 11 lety +7

    the origin of the term "hot mic"?

  • @revbookburn
    @revbookburn Před 13 lety +2

    very enjoyable

  • @pryebloo63
    @pryebloo63 Před rokem +1

    1:24 Imagine being such a gamer that you have to get your mic water cooled 🤣

  • @wandawong
    @wandawong Před 10 lety +14

    To all of the people who've been buying KDKA's inaccurate self-promotion over the past 9 decades: The story told here is true and indisputable. The only claim KDKA has is that the U.S. government finally realized (after the commercial broadcasting industry was nearly 10 years old) that it ought to create an actual license for that activity and KDKA happened to be first to stand in the government's line to get one. The ability to pay for a little piece of paper doesn't constitute inventive action.

    • @ApartmentKing66
      @ApartmentKing66 Před 3 lety

      And even then, the department that issued them wasn't a radio governing authority. It simply did it because there wasn't yet a dedicated one to do so. The Commerce Department issued licenses as the de facto authority until the Federal Radio Commission was formed to do it in 1927.

    • @singletona082
      @singletona082 Před rokem

      @@ApartmentKing66 And the whole thing almost didn't happen becuase the Department of the Navy didn't want anyone else to have th edarned things.
      Here we are a century later.

  • @kristinerosseb3434
    @kristinerosseb3434 Před 8 lety +6

    Great movie! Do u mind if I use it in a school project?? :)

  • @larrycarmody8325
    @larrycarmody8325 Před 3 lety +2

    Me & my cuisine had a Cristal to pick up a radio signal, right after WWII, in Columbus Ohio where there was a stronger radio signal,

  • @Greden85
    @Greden85 Před 13 lety +2

    Interesting fact: the KDKA in Pittsburgh was the first radio station that inaugurated regular broadcast service

    • @georgebrusstar2539
      @georgebrusstar2539 Před 6 lety +2

      Not even close.

    • @ApartmentKing66
      @ApartmentKing66 Před 3 lety +2

      No, it wasn't, and you can't prove that it was. Before pronouncing something as fact, do your homework so you won't look so much like a fool.

    • @jimtrue1465
      @jimtrue1465 Před 9 měsíci

      KDKA was, I believe, the first radio station to broadcast using a commercial license from the federal government. But it was far from the first that had regular broadcast service.

  • @bakerandbaker1
    @bakerandbaker1 Před 13 lety +2

    The first station with a license. Several others preceded it but had to shut down during WWI. KCBS was the first to transmit voices rather than Morse code.

    • @ApartmentKing66
      @ApartmentKing66 Před 3 lety +2

      It didn't have a license when it first signed on in 1909 because there was no need for one as it was the only station in existence, nor was there a governing authority to issue one. But when KQW did get a license in the early 20s, it wasn't the first.

  • @carljohnson9057
    @carljohnson9057 Před 3 lety +1

    yeah

  • @jacefiore6203
    @jacefiore6203 Před 9 lety +3

    Did he said "What the hell was that!?"?

  • @marianodeanquin
    @marianodeanquin Před 11 lety

    Con profunda emoción, emoción que hace temblar mis palabras, yo quiero reclamar -no por inmodestia ni para aumentar el mérito nuestro- sino porque le corresponde a la Ciudad y al País, la absoluta seguridad que la primera transmisión nuestra fue la primera transmisión del mundo en radiodifusión 27 de agosto de 1920

    • @leonardoandrade9906
      @leonardoandrade9906 Před 3 lety

      Absolutamente de acuerdo! Ya se los escribo en inglés.

    • @salty-as-heck9915
      @salty-as-heck9915 Před 2 lety

      Guglielmo Malconi, un Italiano, invento el radio y transmitió el primer "programa" en 1895 en Inglaterra.

  • @capriomrowkicz1751
    @capriomrowkicz1751 Před 2 lety

    Interesting

  • @PooBah891
    @PooBah891 Před 13 lety +1

    Are you sure about this---I thought KDKA was the first commercial station. KDKA was in Pittsburgh---Westinghouse owned it.

  • @vorkev1
    @vorkev1 Před 12 lety +1

    in 1922 thay used this type of teck to make the worst wireless cellphone.

  • @davidkerl1431
    @davidkerl1431 Před 8 lety +2

    You might like to investigate radio station WHA from Madison, Wisconsin. Easily pre-dates KDKA.DaveN9HF

    • @commodoresixfour7478
      @commodoresixfour7478 Před 7 lety +1

      David Kerl Thank you, you just helped educate me on local history.

    • @timothy3660
      @timothy3660 Před 5 lety

      A lot mentioned in this video is not accurate.

    • @ApartmentKing66
      @ApartmentKing66 Před 3 lety +1

      @@timothy3660 Well, no matter who says what, somebody has to come along with "oh, this isn't correct" or "oh, that's not right." Doc Herrold put the first broadcast station on the air in San Jose, whether anyone likes it or not. No one else, Madison, WI, or Pittsburgh, was doing what Doc Herrold was. Not trying to be a jerk, but I've kinda had it up to here with the naysayers.

  • @KenanRockmore
    @KenanRockmore Před 2 lety +1

    The 1st DJ was a white woman. Ya learn something new every day

  • @thecampgroundbear7515
    @thecampgroundbear7515 Před 5 lety +1

    Perhaps the first in the United states but Im not so sure the claim can be made the first station.

  • @ronwilliams717
    @ronwilliams717 Před 5 lety

    ID pass on the record, too much work. Winding up the record player Id be to tired to listen to the record.