AMAZING INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED BROADCASTING FOREVER

Broadcasting is relatively new word to a layman, although each one of us is connected through this service only. We all know about mobile and mobile service, but the technology behind it is rarely noticed. Traditional broadcasting has been around for just over 100 years, which may seem a long period but is actually very short a short time considering the grand scheme of things behind it. In this 100 year span, there have been some truly incredible broadcasting inventions which one must know.

First and foremost – Morse Code

In 1800, the Morse Code essentially opened up the world to the potential of broadcasting. It was a textual formation of broadcasting information, but, this proved to be the first step in sharing information from one location to another.

Subscription based Music Services

Now commercial paid music streaming services like Wync Music, Gaana, Airtel Music, and plenty others are just a touch away but the original paid subscription services actually came about in the early 1890s. Wealthy home owners residing in countries such as the UK, France, Hungary and a few other locations paid to have music piped in through their telephone line. The music relayed was like a traditional radio station, but sans advertisements. Fiction story reading, latest and breaking news, even religious broadcast was available through these subscription services. We all believed that the satellite radio was the first subscription based music service but we are wrong.

Voice Transmission

Improving ahead with the subscription services that was all depended on a telephone line, in 1907 Lee de Forest and Reginald A. Fessenden both came up with the ability to transmit the human voice over an electrical current instead of the textual versions of Morse Code. This transformed the broadcasting feature completely. From here, the development of radio signals became more and more prevalent. However, at this time, the radio transmissions were solely used by military and naval vessels in order to communicate between different locations.

Advent of Commercial Radio Stations

With radio signals now becoming more popular, individuals having some radio knowledge started to create their own broadcast stations as early as 1913. These stations were often used for entertainment purpose like broadcasting sports scores and news stories close to home. The amplification power was limited hence the reach was also not very far, and most people at that time did not have a radio receiver. However, present giant AT&T purchased several patents from Lee de Forest. AT&T gave the broadcast rights for news and music to Forest, as the company did not find it profitable enough. The first football game between Yale vs. Harvard was broadcasted by Forest in 1916 and the first scheduled commercial radio program came out of station KDKA in Pittsburgh.

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From Radio to Image – Broadcast Imagery

All broadcasting inventions up until the mid-1920s focused on audio-based frequencies. However, things changed in 1925 when John Logie Baird transmitted the first recognizable visual image. What we know today as Television was known as a Televisor. The image used 30 lines flashing around 10 times per second, and yes the image did give viewers headaches at that time. By 1928 some crude color became possible and an improvement in camera quality came about in 1929.

The next big change – RCA Color

RCA (Radio Corporation of America) developed a commercial color adopter in 1953 in order to produce color television programming. It did require new televisions to be purchased in order to view the content, but it proved to be a major step in the overall improvement in visual quality around the entire world.