31 Facts About FM Radio

1. FM Radio could broadcast news as it happened, which newspapers could not do.

2. FM Radio can employ a boundless plethora of sound and music effects to entertain and enthrall listeners.

3. FM Radio had an immense social impact on inter-war Europe, providing the cultural glue to cement national consciousness and bringing the outside world closer as never before.

4. FM Radio was one of the great forces behind social and political mobilization in the twentieth century.

5. FM Radio can be a most formidable weapon, in particular when introduced to a population already weakened by fear.

6. FM Radio held onto a listening audience in the 1950s and 1960s as the primary medium for marketing to teenagers the latest Top 40 rock and roll hits.

7. FM Radio is used by the general public, within legal guidelines, or it it is used by private business or governmental agencies.

8. FM Radio is the technology and practice that enables the transmission and reception of information carried by long-wave electromagnetic radiation.

9. FM Radio has never fully regained the popularity it enjoyed during its forty-year heyday from 1920 to 1960.

10. FM Radio networks began appearing in the late 1920s: NBC was established in 1926, and CBS in 1927.

11. FM Radio continued through the 1930s and 1940s primarily as an entertainment vehicle.

12. FM Radio stations expanded their programs to include more than just music.

13. FM Radio waves have lengths from many miles down to a fraction of a foot.

14. FM Radio makes it possible to establish wireless one-way or two-way communication between transmitters and receivers.

15. FM Radio is the transmission and reception of long-wavelength electromagnetic waves.

16. FM Radio is looked at as an important tool in educating the general public about health issues.

17. FM Radio programs begin as sound waves, which microphones change into electrical signals.

18. FM Radio waves travel through the air, surrounding us with vibrations that can only be detected through a radio receiver.

19. FM Radio waves occur naturally in space or can be created by people.

20. FM Radio programs emphasized contemporary progressive ideas on education and progressive political notions that were not represented in schoolbooks at that time.

21. FM Radio had the power to bring the world to the classroom, and programs could be presented as textbooks of the air.

22. FM Radio helped promote national values and attitudes, making radio one of the few threads that tied the entire nation together.

23. FM Radio stations stepped into this void and provided a mix of news, reports, and patriotic messages that listeners craved.

24. FM Radio receives electromagnetic waves from the air that are sent by a radio transmitter.

25. FM Radio waves are still used to send messages between people.

26. FM Radio was first created as a way to send telegraph messages between two people without wires, but soon two-way radio brought voice communication, including Walkie-talkies and eventually mobile phones.

27. FM Radio is a way to send electromagnetic signals over a long distance, to deliver information from one place to another.

28. FM Radio sucks, and it lost me as a listener years ago.

29. FM Radio waves can travel unimpeded through objects like buildings or people but light waves can not.

30. FM Radio waves like all electromagnetic waves are able to carry information through space.

31. FM Radio waves are the radiation and detection of a range of frequency of electromagnetic waves.