Radio+&+Recorded+Music

=Radio & Recorded Music=



1800s
1836 Electromagnetism's main discover Andre-Marie Ampere, [|dies at the age of 63] 1844 [|Samuel Morse] invents Telegraph 1860- Scott’s [|phonautograph] 1864- J[|ames Clerk Maxwell] mathematically demonstrates possibility of radio waves 1872 Thomas Edison invents [|automatic telegraph] 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone Picture of Alexander Graham Bell

1877 [|Thomas Edison demonstrates phonograph] 1877 [|Thomas Edison] demonstrates "talking machine" 1877 [|Berliner] develops gramophone 1878 Cornetist Jules Levy plays [|"Yankee Doodle" and it becomes the first music put on record] 1878 David Edward Hughes becomes the [|first ever to transmit and receive radio waves] 1879 James Clerk Maxwell [|dies at the age of 48] 1886 Heinrich Hertz discovered [|"Hertzian Waves"] 1887 [|Berliner develops microphone] Picture of Berliner 1887 [|Gramophone]invented by Emilie Berniner 1887 The [|"platter" record]is born 1888[| Hertz] first transmits and receives radio waves 1888 Edison introduces an [|electric motor-driven phonograph] 1891 Use of [|Radio at sea for navigation] 1890 Edouard Branly [|discovers Radioconduction] 1894 [|Heinrich Hertz] dies 1895 Marconi accomplishes [|wireless radio transmission from Italy to America] 1896[| Guglielmo][| Marconi] develops radio transmitter 1896 Nikola Tesla invents a [|spark radio transmitter] 1898 A [|loudspeaker] is invented 1899- [|Marconi] sends wireless signal across the English Channel

1900s
1900 David Edward Hughes [|dies at the age of 69] 1901 Guglielmo Marconi sends and receives [|radio message across the Atlantic] 1903 [|Sailing ships provided with news broadcast]for the first time 1903 12" records released by the [|Victor Monarch label] 1905 The[| Jukebox]is invented with 24 songs 1906[| "I Am the Edison"] phonograph by Len Spencer 1906 [|Reginald Aubrey][| Fessenden] makes first sound broadcast 1909 Marconi is awarded the [|Nobel prize for Physics]  1910 [|Wireless Ship Act]  1912[| Radio Act] 1912 Marconi invents the [|Multiple Spark System] 1916- Sarnoff sends [|Radio Music Box Memo] 1919 First clear transmission of a human voice 1919 The [|Radio Corporation of America](RCA) is founded 1919- Navy developed [|sleet-melting device] for antennas at Annapolis and other highpower radio stations 19 20 Frank Conrad starts [|KDKA in Pittsburgh] 1920's [|first electron mass medium] 1920 The[| first ever commercial AM radio broadcast is made by KDKA, Pittsburgh PA]. 1921 The[| Shortwave Radio]is invented 1922 A live audience is used for the first time for [|"The Perfect Fool"]

1922- Almost 1 million [|radios] were in American Homes

1922 [|North Carolina radio station]as well as the first commercial station in the Southeast broadcasts 1922 [|First commercial announcement broadcast on radio] 1922 There are [|379 radio stations stations] 1923- [|Edwin Armstrong] invented the world's first potable radio. 1925 [|Electric players] introduced 1925- The [|Tabernacle Choir] began performing over the radio during their rehearsals on Thursday evenings. 1925- March 4, 1925, [|Calvin Coolidge] was the first president to have his inaugural ceremony broadcasted over national radio. 1926 [|NBC] begins radio network broadcasting 1927 NBC's [|Orange Network]is founded 1927 [|Radio Act] Network radio competes with newspapers for advertising revenue 1927 [|AM radio stations] allocated [|CBS] begins radio network broadcasting Advertising support becomes dominant in radio 1930 [|Car radios] are introduced commercially 1931 Thomas Edison [|dies at the age of 84]with over 1,000 patents to his credit 1933 President Roosevelt addresses the nation with the first[| "Fireside Chat"] 1933 [|Edwin Howard Armstrong] develops FM radio 1933 [|Federal Communications Commision (FCC)] is established 1934 [|Communications Act] 1935 Franklin Delano Roosevelt debuts fireside chats on radio 1937 [|Guglielmo Marconi]dies; radios around the world observe two minutes of silence 1938 //[|War of the Worlds]// radio broadcast stuns US 1939 First [|FM radio station]started in New Jersey 1941 Muddy Waters's [|first recording session] 1941- [|Pearl Harbor] attack was reported by radio. 1942 First Gold Disc presented to Glenn Miller for the song [|"Chattanooga Choo Choo"] 1942 [|Voice of America] (radio station) begins broadcasts in many languages 1942 [|The first stereo tape recordings] are introduce by Helmut Kruger for German Radio in Berlin 1943 [|ABC begins radio network broadcasting] 1946- Gls return from Germany with [|tape recorder] 1947 [|Magnetic audiotape] developed by 3M 1947 Radio networks begin to lose ground to TV

1947- Columbia records introduce 33 1/3 rpm records. (can record about 20 min)

33 1/3 records

1948 [|33 and 45 rpm record formats] introduced 1948 [|Transistor radio] is invented 1949- [|Development of the DJ] 1950 [|Two-channel tape recorders]are introduced 1953 [|Elvis Presley's first recording] 1954 First [|"pocket radio"] is introduced 1954 The first commercial [|2-track stereo tapes]are released 1955 First [|rock ‘n’ roll song] to top the chart: Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock." 1956 Elvis Presley recieves his first gold record over 1 million sold 1957 Stereo LP's become available by [|Audio Fidelity] 1958 RCA introduced a new [|cartridge recorder] 1958 Perry Como receives first ever gold plaque from [|RIAA] 1958 [|Catalog of tapes]are released

1958- Separate Channels/Tracks recorded onto one [|audiotape]

1959 [|Player/recorder units]were finally being shipped to distributors 1961 RCA introduces [|portable units and playback-only units] 1961 FM stereo broadcasting is approved by FCC Photo of Records 1962 [|Cassette tapes] introduced

Photo of Cassette Tapes

1962 The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers sets the standard for the [|time code format] 1962 First communication satelite[| Telestar]is launched 1962 [|The Beatles first recording session] 1963 Philips introduces the [|Compact Cassette tape format] 1964 [|The Beatles]come to America

1965- Stereo 8 (8track) introduced.

8 track



1965 [|Musicassettes] are released

1967 Recordings shifted from Analog to Digital 1967- [|Jimi Hendrix] becomes an international superstar, and comes out with major hits like "Hey Joe," "Purple Haze," and "The Wind Cries Mary".

Digital Tape Recorder 1970 FM radio stations begin targeting segmented audiences 1971- Rock Band[| Led Zepplin] famous song "Stairway To Heavy" hits airwaves. 1972 [|Clear Channel Radio] is founded 1973- Musical band [|Pink Floyd] comes out with highly successful album "Dark Side of the Moon" 1975 The first Pop video ever, Bohemian Rhapsody is released by Queen media type="youtube" key="irp8CNj9qBI?fs=1" height="385" width="480" 1975 first pop video was //Bohemian Rhapsody // by Queen, released in 1975 1976 The [|boom box] is invented 1976 first Platinum album certified by the [|RIAA] was The Eagles' Their Greatest Hits 1976 The first [|16-bit digital recording]in the U.S. 1978 [|Digital audio and video recording] adopted as media industry-standard 1980 [|The Walkman] is invented 1980 After President Reagan is elected, CBC played the song "It's My Party" by Leslie Gore for 18 hours straight 1981 Philips demonstrates[| the Compact Disc] 1982 [|The CD], first digital music recording medium is introduced 1982 Sony releases [|the CDP-101]which is the first CD player ever 1984 Cassette sales for the first time[| exceeded LP sales] 1984 Michael Jackson's album "Thriller" becomes first multi-platinum album by the [|RIAA]. 1984 Michael Jackson's Thriller remains at number one on [|Billboard] 200 album chart for thirty-seven weeks and spent a record 80 consecutive weeks, more than a year and a half, in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 1985 Marconi's [|first experiment]with Hertzian Waves 1987 [|Global Positioning Sattelites] constellation of sattelites is launched 1987- [|MP3 developed] 1990 [|Sirius Satellite Radio] is founded as Satellite CD Radio, Inc. 1990 "Ice Ice Baby" from Vanilla Ice, goes [|on Billboard Charts]and becomes the first hip hop single to top the Billboard Charts 1990 Green Day Band Picture of GreenBand

1990 Nirvana Band 1991 Apple releases [|the "QuickTime" multimedia format] 1993 The [|internet radio] is invented Picture of Nirvana Band

1996- [|Telecommunications Act] 1997//[| Mediamorphosis]// by [|Roger Fidler] introduces the idea of media convergence

1998 [|MP3]ntroduced 1998 [|Music download sites proliferate on the Internet] 1998 Shawn Fanning creates [|Napster]

2000s
2000 LimeWire's innitial release 2000 [|BET Media]empire sold to media giant Viacom 2000 Napster Internet site ordered to end unauthorized file sharing 2001- Satellite radio begins 2001 Apple launches [|iPod]

Photo of First Ipod 2002- [|terrestrial digital radio] 2003 [|FCC Institutes relaxed media ownership rules] 2003 Itunes goes online Picture of Itunes 2004 [|Frostwire] is created by creators of limewire in response to legal allegations. 2008 Rapper [|Lil' Wayne] sell $1 million albums in a week 2010 [|limewire gets shutdown] 2010 Apple releases the [|new generations of iPod touch, iPod nano, and iTunes]