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This 11 page report discusses the emergence of contrasting forms of broadcasting in the United States and Europe prior to 1940. The emergence of broadcasting as a force to be reckoned with had an undeniably broad impact throughout the world. Especially in the pre-World War II United States and Great Britain, the foundations were being laid of what have long since become broadcasting media “empires.” Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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the globe has always been an extremely valuable commodity in virtually any circumstance. Any individual who held important information relating to either the government of the political community had
(and has) political power and influence at their disposal: they can effectively control territory, conduct a successful war, drive a political or economic rival from the field. Information has long
presented an exclusive trading commodity, which could be purchased, marketed, duplicated, monitored and (ultimately) censored. The emergence of broadcasting as a force to be reckoned with had a broad
impact throughout the world. In the pre-World War II United States and Great Britain, the foundations were being laid of what have long since become broadcasting media "empires."
The story of modern broadcasting is predicated on the many "larger-than-life" stories of characters such as David Sarnoff who moved from Russia to the
United States when he was nine years old, and was hired as an office boy, after purchasing his own bought a telegraph key and learning Morse code, for the Marconi
Wireless Telegraph Co. of America. Like so many others in the early broadcasting business, Sarnoff was at the right place at the right time. On April 14, 1912, Sarnoff was
working at the Marconi station atop Wanamakers department store when he picked up a message relayed from ships at sea: "S.S. Titanic ran into iceberg, sinking fast." For the next
72 hours, the story goes, he remained at his post, giving the world the first authentic news of the disaster. According to
Carsey and Werner (1998), while at Marconi, Sarnoff submitted a proposal for a "device" in 1916 that would bring music into homes by wireless and serve as a means of
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