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About RCA - Linking The Nation
Baseball's first broadcast of the World Series came just a few months after the first official radio station went on the air. Commercial radio wasn't far behind. During radio's infancy as an entertainment medium, engineers were busy finding other ways to use the newly-harnessed frequencies. RCA transmitted the first radio photograph, a precursor to the facsimile machine, across the Atlantic Ocean in 1924. The number of radio stations had doubled in just two years. By the time Charles Lindbergh made his historic transatlantic flight, some six million radio sets were in use. Surveys indicated that an average of five people listened to each set, making a potential market of 30 million people.
RCA's David Sarnoff saw the potential for a nationwide network, and in 1926 RCA, GE and Westinghouse bought WEAF in New York and designated it as the anchor station for the National Broadcasting Company. NBC soon stretched to 25 stations nationwide.
The Rose Bowl game of 1927 was heard coast to coast, thanks to the NBC network. In 1927, another remarkable development was taking place: California engineer Philo Farnsworth sent out a signal in a pioneering television experiment. His broadcast sent a picture of a dollar sign through the air. A year later, the president of RCA predicted that Kodak's newly-developed color film might someday be applied to television. |
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