When you think high-tech, what comes to mind? Wi-Fi? Artificial intelligence? Smartphones with more computing horsepower than the Apollo moon missions? A century ago, radio was the technology of the ...

Only 100 people were listening, but the first broadcast from a licensed radio station occurred at 8 p.m. on November 2, 1920. It was Pittsburgh’s KDKA, and the station was broadcasting the results of ...

Prior to the advent of radio broadcasting, this was a common scene in U.S. cities and towns, with citizens flocking to newspaper offices for updates on breaking news events. The crowd in this ...

Sherman “Jocko” Maxwell debuted a five-minute radio show on WNJ in Newark by early 1930. In radio’s formative years, most stations were only on the air for several hours in the evening, and the ...