This week Andrew, Steve, and Jonathan discuss the pre-TV broadcast history, including most importantly radio’s role in structuring how we organized television. Also hear Steve and Jonathan debate the 19th century’s understanding of baseball as local sport versus national mass media past time. Listen mouth agape as Steve and Jonathan debate the differences between the 1912 radio landscape and 2015 world of podcasts.
- Baseball game played in Saratoga Springs, 1880
- Susan J. Douglas (1989)
- Guglielmo Marconi
- story of wireless operator who picked up Titanic distress signal
- Radio Room similar to the one found on the Titanic
- Clapp Eastham Blitzen Radio Receiver 1912
- NBC Blue Network
- Cover of Radio Broadcast (1926)
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