High Hopes for Radio: New Media in Los Angeles and San Diego in the 1920s
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Title
High Hopes for Radio: New Media in Los Angeles and San Diego in the 1920s
Description
This project looks at how newspaper-controlled radio stations in Los Angeles and San Diego embraced the new medium of radio in the 1920s and attempted to create a unique and lasting presence for themselves in a competitive new media marketplace.
http://csusmhistorydepartment.com/H502/S18/mathews/
http://csusmhistorydepartment.com/H502/S18/mathews/
Creator
Linda Mathews
Collection Items
High Hopes for Radio Podcast: Early Days of Radio
Audio podcast that discusses the first commercial radio broadcasts and how the Southern California market was at the forefront of adopting the new technology.
High Hopes for Radio: How to Build a Radio Receiver
This video podcast discusses what the newspapers operating radio stations in Los Angeles and San Diego area had to do build their listener base.
High Hopes for Radio Podcast: Radio Markets
This podcast discusses why many of the newspapers in Los Angeles and San Diego became interested in owning broadcast stations.
High Hopes for Radio podcast: The Promise of Radio
Newspapers extolled the virtues of how radio would serve the public.
Club holds radio dance wearing earphones 1920
A "radiophone dance" held by an Atlanta social club in May 1920 in which the participants danced wearing earphones to music transmitted from a band across town. Practical AM radio transmission of sound was made possible by the development of vacuum…
Early 1920s radio and horn speaker
A drawing of an early vacuum tube regenerative radio receiver and horn loudspeaker, the Paragon receiver, made by Adams-Morgan Co., Montclair, New Jersey, USA, from an advertisement in a radio magazine around 1922. The radio consists of two units;…
20111110-OC-AMW-0038 - Flickr - USDAgov
English: Farmer in 1923 listening to crop reports broadcast from Washington D.C. using a crystal radio. The early crystal radio had a "cat whisker detector" consisting of a fine wire on an adjustable arm that touched the surface of a crystal of the…
Crystal Radio Advertisement
Photo of an American family in the 1920s listening to a crystal radio. From a 1922 advertisement for Freed-Eisemann radios in Radio World magazine. The small radio is on the table. Crystal sets work off the power received from radio waves, so they…
1920s TRF radio manufactured by Signal
1920s TRF radio manufactured by Signal Electric MFG. CO. located in Menominee Mich. Demonstrates early radio construction methods using "breadboard
Violet McKenzie with wireless
A woman, Florence Violet McKenzie, sitting at a desk listening to an early radio in 1922. Radio broadcasting, which began around the time this picture was taken, caused radio listening to explode from a high-tech hobby to a hugely popular pastime…