ABSTRACT
When most people think of “radio news,” they tend to associate it with radio’s Golden Age, the 1930s and 1940s, or with the rise of national networks like NBC and CBS. It is a common but understandable misconception to think that radio in the 1920s broadcast only music, sermons, and educational talks. Because early radio broadcasts had to be done live, performers and speakers usually did go to the studio. And as a result of technological challenges, coupled with a lack of a budget for developing a news department, most broadcasters found it dif cult to cover distant events. But despite this handicap, we can trace news via the “radiophone” (as radio was called in its early days), right back to radio’s earliest days.
