www.wbacradio.com http://www.wbacradio.com Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 How The First AM Radio Set Worked http://www.wbacradio.com/2011/07/21/how-the-first-am-radio-set-worked/ http://www.wbacradio.com/2011/07/21/how-the-first-am-radio-set-worked/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 admin http://www.wbacradio.com/&p=11 In 1887- 1920 there was a technological advancement that today we call the AM/FM Radio. Back then it was only AM. This technology was called wireless telegraph. Radio waves are all around us. They are virtually undetectable by human. You cant touch it or see it. One antenna from an output source, outputs sound. Music, interviews, and news travel these radio waves to a receiving antenna which is the listener. It takes just a few simple components to make a radio as the radio waves are already out in the universe, you just have to know how to use them. Am radio was the first listening radio waves to be broadcasted around the world. From a few feet to thousands of miles. This is what has paved the way for things like cell phones and even internet. It is amazing how something so simple to can us into the 21st century with all the wifi and wireless gadgets we all seem to take for granted these days. So next time your listening to that radio rather it be satellite or on the AM/FM tuner in your room its all the same thing its just how we have evolved to use it.

]]> http://www.wbacradio.com/2011/07/21/how-the-first-am-radio-set-worked/feed/ 0 KCBS: The World’s Oldest AM Radio Station http://www.wbacradio.com/2011/07/20/kcbs-the-worlds-oldest-am-radio-station/ http://www.wbacradio.com/2011/07/20/kcbs-the-worlds-oldest-am-radio-station/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 admin http://www.wbacradio.com/&p=10 KCBS was founded as KQW in 1909 by engineer Charles Herrold in San Jose, California. Because of this it could have claim to the title as the oldest radio station in America to continually broadcast. It has had many different call signs since then eventually settling on KCBS when it was bought by CBS in the late 1940s. It was knows as KCBS until 1995.

Later, in 1968, KCBS became an all-news radio station. It is knows as one of the first all-news radio stations in America. It was already widely known as a news radio station because of the stations efforts during World War II to gather information regarding the war in the Pacific Theater. It was one of the most important radio stations in the country during the time because most radio stations were covering the action that was happening in Europe during World War II instead of the Pacific part of the war.

In 1995 KCBS was bought by the Westinghouse Corporation. This corporation also owned KPIX-TV located in the Bay area. These two stations were then made to work together and both of their stations were moved to San Jose, California where KCBS was originally started.

]]> http://www.wbacradio.com/2011/07/20/kcbs-the-worlds-oldest-am-radio-station/feed/ 0 The History Of AM Radio Post World War I http://www.wbacradio.com/2011/07/18/the-history-of-am-radio-post-world-war-i/ http://www.wbacradio.com/2011/07/18/the-history-of-am-radio-post-world-war-i/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 admin http://www.wbacradio.com/&p=9 AM radio was the first type of radio to be invented. It was first started in the early 20th century as widely used during World War I as a means to relay information and news to people during the war. A lot of these original stations were amateur stations that were started by civilians all over the country. There was a later a ban placed on these amateur radio stations towards the end of World War I.

The Navy had a huge part in promoting amateur radio use after World War I. They wanted to use the invention of radio to help relay and send codes between their officers during times of conflict. In 1919 the Navy started broadcasting a weekly show about amateur radio station broadcasting in an effort to keep amateurs interested in radio and to surreptisiously train civilians to send and receive code.

In the 20′s radio became an increasingly used medium for entertainment. The federal government then placed a ban on amateur broadcasting to a wide range. But, by then so many amateurs knew so much about broadcasting that they were getting jobs as engineers at the various radio stations that were popping up all over the country during the roaring twenties.

]]> http://www.wbacradio.com/2011/07/18/the-history-of-am-radio-post-world-war-i/feed/ 0 The History Of AM Radio Prior To World War I http://www.wbacradio.com/2011/07/16/the-history-of-am-radio-prior-to-world-war-i/ http://www.wbacradio.com/2011/07/16/the-history-of-am-radio-prior-to-world-war-i/#comments Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 admin http://www.wbacradio.com/&p=8 AM radios history before World War I is a very interesting and entertaining history. The first experimental broadcast of the AM radio happened on Christmas Eve in 1906. Reginald Fessenden, a Canadian, was this experimenter. This experimentation came over a decade after the invention of the radio which was invented in 1897. Many of the earliest radio broadcasts were made through radio telegraphy and telephony. At the turn of the century Fessenden began to make weak radio broadcasts over the air waves.Never heard of this before? Get up to speed here. However, it wasn’t until his successful transatlantic experimental radio communications. In 1904 that he issued a patent on the radio which through dispute was issued to Macaroni. Macaroni was one of the first to use the airwaves to broadcast messages in British waters between British ships. However, after successful experimentation, Fessenden continued to broadcast until World War 1 using small-scale voices and music. AM Radio broadcasting began to spread and eventually made its way into the United States and started in June of 1909 in San Jose, California. Charles Herrold made the first broadcast on KCBS, which is the oldest United States radio station. The AM radio was becoming a useful tool for many citizens of the world and in 1914 when we entered the war, it had become sophisticated enough to be used on a large scale.

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