3. The First Broadcast
Results of election
between Harding
and Cox
• November 2, 1920
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WWJ KDKA
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4. Early 1920’s 1925 1926 1930
No daily Infamous Scopes NBC introduced Hard News by
newscasts. Only “monkey” trial „network‟. (25 NBC‟s Lowell
teasers for covered by WGN in stations) Thomas!
newspaper Chicago. 1928- CBS did the 15-minute.
buying. same.
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Shipwrecks/emer
gency news
Origins (1920-1935)
Newspaper Scopes Monkey Lowell's last
drama begins! information broadcast
5. 1932 1933 1934 1936
Newspapers Biltmore Mutual MBS earned a
imposed blackouts Agreement. Halting Broadcasting great reputation
on radio. of newsgathering. System. 4 stations through its beat
5-minute saw a need to coverage of DC
Lindbergh baby restriction. Only unite.
kidnapping. after papers came
out
NBC formed own Didn’t work! As well as Howard
newsgathering Hughes’ flight
1933
6. Golden Age (1935-50)
“Radio’s Best Time” News embargo broke 1935.
News now firmly Associated Press agreed News averaging 10%
placed in to sell its news services of programming by
broadcast to radio again. 1930’s.
schedule.
1938- stations subscribing to more
than one news wire.
News written just for radio!
Orson Welles October 30, 1938
<~ Listen to the entire broadcast!
7. 1939-1945
Spurred radio in to NBC developed European
golden age. news operation in 1937.
In the field!
Interviews
NBC & CBS:
overseas news and
bureaus.
Foreign News Edward R. Became a distinctive Was and
Roundup Murrow in syntax or writing and continues to be
London reporting news. conversational
and have
The ‘news analyst’!! „actualities‟.
8. “Oh, the Humanity!”
German airship, Hindenburg
1937, broadcast Herb
Reporter
over WLS in
Chicago. Crashed in Morrison.
Lakehurst, NJ
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10. End of WWII
1940‟s: Still providing 1944: CBS broadcasted
new ways to portions of D-Day.
broadcast news.
FDR‟s 3rd term
candidacy His death in 1945
1946: of evening
commercial
network time.
However, television‟s inception plus the war‟s end caused this to begin to taper.
11. Adjustment (1950-1970)
Next Class: 1950- Present
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The first broadcast by a radio station in the US is widely acknowledged to have been a newscast. November 2, 1920, both KDKA in Pittsburg, PA and WWJ in Detroit, MI broadcast results from the election for president between Warren Harding and James Cox. Despite these inaugural newscasts, radio news did not become a regular feature of radio programming until the late 1920s.