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As you turn on that radio you may not think about how long radios have been listened to by the public. In the early 1920s radio stations were rare, and many had private receivers where they could ...

Dec. 12, 1901 marks the date of the first radio transmission across the Atlantic by Reginald Fessenden. Scott Mason, our Tar Heel Traveler, tells us more about Fessenden and his accomplishment. Dec.

“Well,” Bob Costas says, “it started out being about tracking his bets.” The son of “an inveterate gambler,” the type who had bookies pay house calls to the family’s Long Island home, it was young Bob ...

WGBH Founder Ralph Lowell announces the station's first radio broadcast featuring the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall on October 6, 1951. Listen • 0:52 WGBH Founder Ralph Lowell announces ...

One hundred years ago Friday, on July 2, 1921, Georges Carpentier left a makeshift boxing arena in Jersey City with a broken nose, a fractured thumb and a swollen eye thanks to Jack Dempsey, who ...