Thursday, December 24, 2009

First radio broadcast

Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden transmitted the first radio broadcast on December 24, 1906 from Brant Rock, Massachusetts. After six years of refining his radio transmission idea and overcoming many hurdles, Fessenden produced a short broadcast program that included his playing the song "O Holy Night" on the violin and reading a passage from the Bible.
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