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Fun Radio Facts
Source: Arbitron Ratings, Media history project, and the R.A.B.
186,000 -- The speed, in miles per second, that radio waves travels.
1,100 -- The approx number of hours the average listener (12+ and older) hears radio each year.
700 -- The speed, in miles per hour, that sound waves travel. Did you know a voice broadcast over the radio can be heard 13,000 miles away sooner than it can be heard at the back of the room where it was originated.
Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) is widely recognized as the "Father of Radio" as we know it. He recieved a patent for is "wireless telegraph" in 1896 in England.
Marconi discovered that radio waves traveled farther at night as they followed the curvature of the earth.
Voice was first sent by radio waves in 1906, by American Reginald Fessenden, a student of Alexander Graham Bell.
The first radio station in America, with the call letters 8XK, began operations in 1919 in Pittsburg, PA out of Frank Conrad's garage.
FM Radio made it's first appearance in 1939.
