Am busy writing an essay on how I'd teach war poetry and have this nice section where I play a hypothetical radio clip, but just had a panic as to whether there were public radio broadcasts in WW1. Help!?!
2007-12-06 20:55:12 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
No, radios were not readily available to the general public, nor were there many radio stations broadcasting, until the 1920s, following WWI. The golden age of radio as a source of entertainment, other than just music and news, was from the 1930s through the 1940s.
2007-12-06 21:04:37 · answer #1 · answered by LodiTX 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There were radio broadcasts during ww-1 at least during the day time hours,.....radio was in it's infancy at the time and radio staions pretty much had their own power stations and electrical engineers to run the stations, some of the best music and the best radio theatre came from ww-1 very few people had radios though as radios were hard to come by and were quite expensive, you might liken them to hdtv today, it's available and it'll be obsolete pretty soon but it's available if you can afford one.........but there was one in about 1 of 5 homes in a city of substantial size and nieghbors got together and would listen to the news, it was a big deal back then.
2007-12-07 05:08:32 · answer #2 · answered by theoregonartist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No broadcasting for radios were not used until 1922
2007-12-07 10:57:34 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Radio was at a primitive stage and there were no public broadcasting organisations
2007-12-08 01:35:01 · answer #4 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as the BBC wasn't founded until 1922, I doubt it
2007-12-07 05:07:18 · answer #5 · answered by derbydolphin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋