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Golden Age of Radio. Girl listening to vacuum tube radio during the Great Depression. Prior to the emergence of television as the dominant entertainment medium in the 1950s, families gathered to listen to the home radio in the evening. The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio ( OTR) era, was an era of radio in the United States ...
Pegeen Fitzgerald was another of the first women in the radio industry. Fitzgerald began her own show from her apartment in 1937 and became known as "First Lady of Radio Chatter". In her talk show she covered numerous topics, and in the 1940s her husband and she were one of the most highly paid double acts in radio, earning about $160,000 a year.
Listen with Mother was a BBC radio programme for children which ran between 16 January 1950 to 10 September 1982. [1] It was originally produced by Freda Lingstrom although for the majority of its run it was produced by George Dixon, and was presented over the years by Daphne Oxenford, Julia Lang, Eileen Browne, Dorothy Smith and others.
Beginning in the late 1840s, women were employed as landline telegraph operators, sending and receiving Morse code messages. Early radio communication, then called "wireless telegraphy", was developed in the late 1800s, and also initially communicated using Morse code. Women were employed as some of the earliest wireless operators, and in early ...
Radio broadcasting has been used in the United States since the early 1920s to distribute news and entertainment to a national audience. In 1923, 1 percent of U.S. households owned at least one radio receiver, while a majority did by 1931 and 75 percent did by 1937. [ 1][ 2] It was the first electronic "mass medium" technology, and its ...
Women shape music movements, events, and genres as composers, songwriters, instrumental performers, singers, conductors, and music educators. Women's music has been created by and for women in part to explore ideas of women's rights and feminism. The impact of women in music influences concepts of creativity, activism, and culture.
Debuts. 16 January – Listen with Mother, on the BBC Light Programme (1950–1982) [1] 6 June – Educating Archie, on the BBC Light Programme (1950–1960) 7 June – The Archers, pilot episode (1950–Present) 5 November – Life with the Lyons, on the BBC Light Programme (1950–1961) 3 December – Calling All Forces, on the BBC Light ...
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