Nothing new about radio over the phone
September 15th, 2007
I love history. And as we dig deeper and deeper into the roots of the services we see trending into great viability in the 21st century, we are finding comforting references to the use telephones from its early days as an entertainment device.
The Electrophone pre-dates radio itself. It never caught on in the US for various reasons, primarily because the infrastructure for radio in the 1920’s emerged and eclipsed telephony as the best way to broadcast news and entertainment.
Even though we have scarcely seen the application of telephones as mass media devices in 80+ years, the trends are coming back around to where it all makes sense — again.
Enjoy the article and remember… there is nothing new under the sun, just new ways to combine the things we know and learn about.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:58 am
Interesting article! I’d never even heard of the Electrophone.
By the way, nice picture! Thanks for explaining that you were playing Alexander Graham Bell in a commercial. Very appropriate…(early telephone pioneer, being played by a 21st Century telephone/media pioneer)