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What was the first song ever played on the radio? Vote for this answer. It was on December 24, 1906 from Brant Rock when during a short program for Christmas, O Holy Night was played on a violin. I am leary about the answer because of the date but Wikipedia confirms it but then again disputes it. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/First_song_ever_played_on_a_radio_station. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_broadcasting. Vote for this answer.
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RadioâYes, Terrestrial RadioâIs the No. 1 Medium in Terms of Reach On August 1, 1981 at 12:01 a.m., MTV played its first music video on the air, marking the so-called beginning of the end for radio. This wasn’t the first time, or the last, that terrestrial, free radio would be deemed obsolete. First, it was the threat of news on TV, then entertainment on TV, then music on TV, then satellite radio and now streaming. The most recent nail in the coffin appears to be Apple Music, which launched last Tuesday.
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Jingle Bells Jingle Bells was the first song broadcast from space, in a Christmas-themed prank by Gemini 6 astronauts Tom Stafford and Wally Schirra. While in space on December 16, 1965, they sent this report to Mission Control : Gemini VII, this is Gemini VI.
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Invention of radio Around the turn of the 20th century Guglielmo Marconi, developed the first apparatus for long distance radio communication. Reginald A. Fessenden became the first to send audio (wireless telephony) by means of electromagnetic waves in 1907. By 1910 these systems had come to be referred to by the common name radio.
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History of radio On 27 August 1920, regular wireless broadcasts for entertainment began in Argentina, pioneered by the group around Enrique Telémaco Susini, and spark gap telegraphy stopped. On 31 August 1920 the first known radio news program was broadcast by station 8MK, the unlicensed predecessor of WWJ (AM) in Detroit, Michigan.
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KONP (AM): Wikis The station's first radio tower was a locally-cut 180-foot Douglas fir. For many years, KONP provided Top 40 music. This music programming, which started with the sounds of the big band era and popular artists of the time, progressed well into the 1990s.
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When did BBC radio begin broadcasting? The first radio broadcast by the British Broadcasting Company was on 14th November 1922. The British Broadcasting Company Ltd was a commercial company formed on October 18, 1922 by British and American electrical companies doing business in the United Kingdom.MT was the first British radio station to make regular entertainment broadcasts. Transmissions began on February 14, 1922 from an ex-Army hut next to the Marconi laboratories at Writtle, near Chelmsford in Essex. Initially the station only had 200 watts of power, and transmitted on 700m on Tuesdays from 2000 to 2030.
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What is the first song in outer space? The first song broadcast into deep space was in 2008. The song was Across the Universe performed by the The Beatles. The first song broadcast into space performed by an American artist was called Save Me by Darren Farris. This broadcast was made in April 2009. To date there has been no other Deep Space broadcasts of commercial music. There are several sources for both broadcasts on the internet.
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- 1 On Feb. 22, 1924 Calvin Coolidge became the first president to make a public radio address to the American people. 2  President Coolidge later helped create the Federal Radio Commission, which has now evolved to become the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
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- CORRECTED: Alohamalu (accent on the last syllable) is 'protected by love'. Be careful because if it is spelled with a long accent over the last 'u', it changes the meaning to …'secret love'. mallu means malayalee...one who comes from the state of kerala in south india. 1 person found this useful.
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Oldies Oldies stations as they are known today did not come into existence until the early 1970s. In the 1970s, KOOL-FM in Phoenix, Arizona became one of the first radio stations to play oldies music, at that time focusing on the 1950s and early 1960s. KOOL is still playing oldies today. In the 1960s very few Top 40 Radio stations played anything older than a few years old.
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- Pandora Radio is Founded, Based on the Music Genome Project (January 2000) In January 2000 Will Glaser, Jon Kraft, and Tim Westergren founded Pandora Radio, an automated music recommendation service, and custodian of the Music Genome Project—a mathematical algorithm to organize music—in Oakland, California.
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Easy listening (April 2017) Easy listening (sometimes known as mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s. It is related to middle-of-the-road (MOR) music and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs and popular non-rock vocals.
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- 1930: First Commercial In-Car Radio. The Galvin brothers’ expensive $130 unit (a Model A Deluxe coupe cost $540) was the first commercially successful car radio, and the first product to wear the Motorola name.
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History of radio On 27 August 1920, regular wireless broadcasts for entertainment began in Argentina, pioneered by the group around Enrique Telemaco Telémaco, susini and spark gap telegraphy. Stopped on 31 august 1920 the first known radio news program was broadcast by STATION, 8mk the unlicensed predecessor OF (WWJ) am In, Detroit. michigan
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- Originally titled  The Sounds of Silence  on Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. as well as on the single release and Sounds of Silence album, the song was retitled for later compilations beginning with Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits.he Sound of Silence  is a song by the American music duo Simon & Garfunkel.
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DORIS DAY RADIOGRAPHY The Doris Day RADIO Show premiered over CBS radio in a 25-minute format on Friday, March 28th 1952. Doris made her first solo outing in a radio series a family affair.
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- WATL (1400) became an affiliate of the Don Lee-Mutual network in 1940. The first station in Atlanta to play rock and roll music in the fifties was WGST (920). The station featured Paul Drew, who hosted a show called The Big Record.. He eventually moved on to crosstown WAKE (1340).
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Today in science: 1st intentional radio message to space In 1974, this telescope was used to broadcast the first intentional radio signal into space. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Bottom line: The first radio signal intentionally sent to space with the idea of contacting alien life was beamed outward from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico on November 16, 1974.
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- The first mono mix of the song was performed on February 18th, 1965 in the control room of EMI Studio Two by George Martin and engineers Norman Smith and Ken Scott. The fade of the song on this mix occurs at 3:03, which puts the song just over the established three minute mark for pop songs at the time.
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- Song pluggers in the Tin Pan Alley tradition made Popular Music, the songs and tunes that seemed to came out of nowhere to soar to the top of the hits. Your Hit Parade was the old time radio show that highlighted the rise and fall of those American pop hits for a generation. It began in the mid-30s in New York, and was sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes in 1936. The catchy #1 tune concept was a hit of its own right from the start.
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What was the first song ever ...? Best Answer: the first song ever recorded was Mary Had a Little Lamb to test Edison's phongraph in 1877. The first video on MTV was Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles in 1981. I'm not sure if it was the first music video ever on tv though. The first cd made for sale was ABBA's The Visitors in 1981.
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- 1951: Willie Kizert with Ike Turner & His Kings of Rhythm. The song widely credited with being the first rock and roll single of all time also offers, with similar broad acceptance, the first distorted guitar tone on record.
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- Billboard: #1. f I were going to teach a course on songwriting, I think I'd use 'Angie Baby' as my textbook, says Helen Reddy. It's a high compliment for the first number one song written by Alan O'Day, who would top the Billboard charts three years later himself with Undercover Angel..
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- Weekends 12 pm - 6 pm ET. My first time on the radio was in 1988 when I won a DJ For a Day contest at Boston's WZLX. I opened with Traffic's Empty Pages.. It was a nervous moment; but a great one for me! Never forget it. If you've listened over the years, you've no doubt heard a reference or two million to Bugs Bunny.
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What Was the First U. S. Radio Station? He was forced to close down his operations—along with all other radio amateurs—in 1917, as a result of wartime restrictions on the use of radio—and he resumed operations in 1919, still as 6XF/6XE. In 1921, he was granted a commercial broadcast license as KQW.