Chuck

And, you know, the only people that had these AM receivers that could listen were like soldiers at sea or something like that.

This is before they made it into the homes of Americans.

That paused during World War I because they said, hey, we can't have you broadcasting your daughter playing violin, even though our soldiers love it, that are out at sea.

We need to kind of lock this down for now.

But starting in about 1920, in fact, exactly 1920,

was when commercial broadcast AM radio started with KDKA Pittsburgh.

Yeah, that was the very first one.

I think that they read the results of the Warren Harding election.

I can't remember the other guy's name.

Somebody Cox.

Warren Harding obviously won.

But right after that, I mean, like this was so clearly a groundbreaking medium.

Yeah, it was basically for the people in the 1920s.

It was what the what people in the early 90s experienced with Internet.

It was almost like, like, holy cow, I can't like you can't even begin to imagine all the different ways that this thing is going to change the world.

You just know it's going to change the world.

That's kind of what happened.

And so right after that first broadcast, it just exploded all over the world.

And one reason why it exploded all over the world is because the person who's considered the father of radio, Guglielmo Marconi, he set up companies everywhere.

So very quickly radio stations started to develop in just a year or two after KDKA went on the air.