radio era
Before TV's dominance
The radio era refers to the period, roughly the 1920s through early 1950s, when radio was the dominant broadcast medium for entertainment and news.
Families gathered around the radio for dramas, comedies, variety shows, and live events in ways that television would later absorb: My grandmother still remembers the radio era, when everyone tuned in to hear Roosevelt's fireside chats.
- broadcastTransmitted media signal
- live broadcastTransmission happening right now
- on the airCurrently being broadcast
- airwavesRadio frequency spectrum
- transistorSemiconductor signal switch
antenna · static · tuning · dial · dial in · frequency · AM · FM · golden age · fireside chats · soap opera · variety show · jingle · announcer · crackle · receiver · crystal set · cathode ray
- 1940sWWII, D-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, VE Day
- telegraphytelegraph, Morse code, telegraphy, telegraph key, telegraph line
radio eratelevision age
Period of broadcast dominance
television era · streaming era · digital age · social media era
radio eradigital age
Epoch of computerized life
streaming era · social media age · information age · smartphone era
radio, era, radios, radiate, radiated, radiating, radiation, radiator, radial