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a while back i did a video about radio in the 1920s that focused on very broad trends but in this video i want to take a deeper dive radio at this time is often glossed over with generalities and because of this i want to add something to youtube that doesn't really exist now radio really started to mature in the 1920s and it became a cultural phenomenon there were plenty of achievements outside of entertainment as well many of which are not very well known but how did it achieve such a high status let's take a deeper dive [Music] at the dawn of the 1920s radio had not yet reached a wide audience there were a fairly large number of amateurs who had made or at least assembled their own radio sets and soon after average people could use household materials to fashion simple loudspeakers headphones and the body to create a makeshift radio these pieces of equipment whether high quality or crude were pretty unsightly though within only a few years radios would be advertised as a piece of furniture and a legitimate part of home decor in addition to its entertainment value early radio amateurs were fiercely loyal and dedicated to their hobby establishing organizations clubs and magazines to reinforce their collective interest while there was a sizable number of these enthusiastic radio listeners there weren't enough to make radio a truly national or international phenomenon though some did defect to the commercial radio side not everyone cared about all the little gadgets and radio components if radio was to become a big industry it needed to appeal to a far wider audience it's often cited that station kdka in pittsburgh made the first commercial radio broadcast on november 2nd 1920 when it announced the election results and warren g harding's victory in the 1920 u.s presidential election but this was a myth brought about by an effective pr campaign by westinghouse who owned the station however while station kdka wasn't the first commercial radio station it was very important in the early development of radio and did have quite a list of accomplishments in 1920 there were only about three stations on the air all having received the official government license for general broadcasting kdka among them a year later in 1921 10 radio stations had received the license these stations consisted of wjz in newark new jersey wbz in springfield massachusetts kyw in chicago wjx new york kdka in pittsburgh wrr in dallas texas wdy in roselle park new jersey wcj in new haven connecticut kqv in pittsburgh and kql in los angeles [Music] these stations did not have much wattage and all of them were granted a broadcasting frequency of 360 meters all of the officially licensed stations at this time shared the same frequency which as we will soon see would cause some big problems exact numbers are not known but there were probably less than a thousand radio sets that...