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nItnmay be that the first-ever radio “show” was broadcast onnChristmas Eve, 1906, by Reginald Fessenden, a Canadian inventor whonexperimented with the use of continuous waves and patented a varietynof improvements to transmitting and receiving equipment.
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nFessenden asked his listeners to write to himntelling him about their location when they heard the radio show, andnalso describing the sound quality (or lack of quality). n
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nThengood news was, people heard the short show from several hundred milesnaway. The bad news was, the show was accompanied by a disturbingnnoise that was caused by irregularities in the spark gap transmitter.
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| Reginald Fessenden |
nThen“show” was more about experimentation, feedback, and improvingntechnologies than it was about entertainment. It isn’t even certainnthat it happened in 1906; some historians believe that Fessenden’snlater writing about the event had been mixed up, and that his shortnshow had been put on in 1909.
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