Broadcasting is the
distribution of audio and video content
to a dispersed audience via any audio or
visual mass communications medium. The
receiving parties may include the
general public or a relatively large
subset thereof. TV programs, radio
programs, commercials in malls, the
radio in school or train station, all
agree with the definition of
broadcasting. The term “broadcasting” in
Chinese, refers more to the radio, while
in Japanese and Korean, they adopt the
Chinese phrase “放送”,
meaning distribution, to refer to the
same activity. The similar usage is also
found in Taiwanese. |
Source: Wikipedia |
|
Year |
Event |
1864 |
British, James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
discovered Electromagnetic radiation. |
1873 |
Maxwell published the “Treatise on Electricity
and Magnetism”, the fundamental knowledge for
broadcasting, and is therefore recognized as the
father of broadcast. |
1888 |
German, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz (1857-1894)
proved Electromagnetic radiation equals to radio
wave. |
1896 |
Italian, Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937)
successfully transmitted radio signals at
London. |
1906 |
Canadian, Reginald A. Fessenden (1866-1932)
broadcast the first time ever in human history
from an experimental radio at Massachusetts on
Christmas. |
1920 |
The first radio company started business in
Pittsburgh, U.S.A. |
1933 |
The American professor Edwin H. Armstrong
(1890-1954) invented FM radio in order to fix
the problems of AM radio. |
1955 |
Sony enterprise of Japan built the first
transistor radio. |
1972 |
The name “Radio Taiwan International” was
adopted, and the radio started transmitting
worldwide at a maximum power of 10050kw. |
1980 |
Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT) started
developing DAB (D.A.B.-Digital Audio
Broadcasting) system, a digital radio technology
for broadcasting. |