RADIO'S BIRTHDAY

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 28, 27 January 1928, Page 15

RADIO'S BIRTHDAY

SEVEN WONDERFUL YIARS. Radio broadcasting celebrated its seventh birthday in Ameriea on November 2, 1927. Before the armistice had celebrated its _ first anniversary station KDKA Pittsburgh was on the air with its first broadeast. If that same programme were broadcast to-day not a listener would endure more than a few seconds, yet it was great in its day. To-day there are more than 600 broadcasting stations in America and every civilized country in the world has its quota. It is estimated that there are approximately 7,000,000 receiving sets in America and this number will be enhanced by an output of almost 2,000,000 sets per year. GREAT PROSPECTS.

In fourteen years it is predicted that a set will have been built for every home in America. Sinee the inception of this broadcasting station, less than.a decade agc radio has become an infant rodigy. ‘There is every reason, from indications to believe that the radio business for this year, 1927-28, wil] be more than 600,000,000 dollars. A child is supposed to reach the age of reason at seven. ‘Ihe radio child was among the cognoscanti long before this age was reached. I‘'rom that crude programme from Pittsburgh, broadcast seven years ago, there is in America to-day the chain system tying up every quarter of the country and disseminating programmes that were not even thought would be possibe. Considerable contrast is also evidenced by the set. At the time of the first programme there were but amateur and rouglily constructed sets and the reception was so indistinct that the morning papers vere referred to to enlighten the listener.