Chapter 7 - Radio, Recording and Popular Music

With the foundation that Samuel Morse, inventor of the Morse Code, Guglielmo Marconi, Reginald Fessenden, Lee DeFrost, Thomas Edison and Emile Berliner were able to all contribute individually to making radio as we know it today. Throughout the first half of the 1900's, many Radio Acts were put in place which eventually lead to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate the radio industry. In the 1920's, before the television was popular, it was known as the golden age for radio where advertising became a big part of its structure. After its deregulation, 60% of the world's recorded music market is controlled by 4 major companies.