Perhaps America's most famous radio drama broadcast is Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds (a 1938 version of H. G. Wells' novel), which inspired stories of a mass panic that, though greatly exaggerated, signaled the power of the form.
In 1921, the KDKA radio station in Pittsburgh aired a brief sketch called A Rural Line on Education, becoming the first “play” written specifically for radio broadcast in English.
Radio plays originated in the 1920s and rose to their peak popularity in the 1940s. This was because many households relied on their radios to get live news and entertainment, rather than reading a newspaper or a novel.
In April 1921, KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States, gave a live, play-by-play broadcast of a boxing match between Johnny Dundee and Johnny Ray. This was the first recorded voice broadcasting of a sport event ever.
On Sept. 30, 1962, the final episode of the series Suspense ran on radio — ending the remaining show from the "Golden Age of radio." Commentator Art Chimes remembers old radio and what it meant to audiences, and we hear many examples of the programs themselves.
The longest running radio programme is Grand Ole Opry, broadcast on WSM Radio in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, since 28 November 1925, a total of 79 years.
Golden Age of American radio, period lasting roughly from 1930 through the 1940s, when the medium of commercial broadcast radio grew into the fabric of daily life in the United States, providing news and entertainment to a country struggling with economic depression and war.
The first public radio station in Australia opened in Sydney on 23 November 1923 under the call sign 2SB with other stations in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Hobart following.
1980: The first commercial FM radio stations are launched: Eon FM and Fox FM in Melbourne, Triple M and 2Day FM in Sydney, FM104 in Brisbane, SAFM in Adelaide, 96FM in Perth.
During the evening of 23 November 1923 people across Sydney gathered eagerly in their homes around pieces of wondrous new technology to hear the first radio broadcast in Australia.
Much of American radio drama is restricted to rebroadcasts or podcasts of programs from previous decades. However, other nations still have thriving traditions of radio drama.
Shows such as Amos 'n' Andy, Easy Aces, Ethel and Albert, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Goldbergs, The Great Gildersleeve, The Halls of Ivy, Meet Corliss Archer, Meet Millie, and Our Miss Brooks were incredibly popular.
Radio drama is essentially heard, not seen. Writing a radio play is about painting a picture with words and sounds.
The earliest origins of drama are to be found in Athens where ancient hymns, called dithyrambs, were sung in honor of the god Dionysus. These hymns were later adapted for choral processions in which participants would dress up in costumes and masks.
In 1562, the first English tragedy Gorboduc or Ferrex and Porrex by Sackville and north Norton was played. This play is divided into acts and scenes and it was written in blank verse.
But by then, cinema had moved to the west coast, and the world would finally be able to bask in the glory of Point Break. Radio came decades after cinema. Which may sound odd—it's just sound, after all.
The forties and fifties were the golden years of radio. The regulatory body, the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, created in 1948, had been saying that there was no room for new stations on the AM band and FM had been given to television, so effectively no new competition came onto the scene.
Flinders Street Station is Australia's oldest train station, and with its prominent green copper dome, distinctive yellow facade, arched entrance, tower, and clocks, it is one of Melbourne's most recognisable landmarks.
world's first commercial radio station, KDKA, began broadcasting in Pittsburgh in 1920.
Radio Ratings Survey 1 for 2023: KIIS on top in Sydney, talk stations drop in most cities.
In the 1950s, television surpassed radio as the most popular broadcast medium, and commercial radio programming shifted to narrower formats of news, talk, sports and music. Religious broadcasters, listener-supported public radio and college stations provide their own distinctive formats.
Radio did not fall apart it just had to adapt and change. The way is survived was through music. Radios started playing music on FM because it was superior to AM. And during the 1950 s Rock and Roll was a creation of FM and was introduced by radio announcer Allen Freud.