Editor's Remarks: Celebrating 100 Years of Radio Broadcasting!

摘要

The year 2020 marks the hundredth year of commercial broadcasting in the United States and most countries around the world. On November 2, 1920, the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh converted its experimental station into a commercial radio station (Fones-Wolf, 2006). Ship-to-shore radio communication and experimental broadcasting, however, preceded the creation of commercial radio stations making the history of the medium longer (Alisky, 1954; Balbi, 2017; Briggs, 1995; Day, 1994; Douglas, 1987; Gilfillan, 2009; Johnson, 1988; MacLennan, 2010; Slotten, 2006; Stiegler, 2008; Vaillant, 2010; Vipond, 1992). Regular commercial or public radio stations were quickly established all over the world, the earliest in 1919 and 1920.