What was the first radio program on the radio?!
Question: The first radio program on the radio, I believe occured on the
evening of 24 December, 1906 (Christmas Eve), Regnald Aubrey Fessenden used the alternator-transmitter to send out a short program from Brant Rock, which included his playing the song O Holy Night on the violin and reading a passage, Luke Chapter 2, from the Bible. On 31 December, New Year's Eve. A second short program was broadcast.
The main audience for both these transmissions was an unknown number of shipboard radio operators along the Atlantic Coast. Although now seen as a landmark, these two broadcasts were barely noticed at the time and soon forgotten.
Answers: The first radio program on the radio, I believe occured on the
evening of 24 December, 1906 (Christmas Eve), Regnald Aubrey Fessenden used the alternator-transmitter to send out a short program from Brant Rock, which included his playing the song O Holy Night on the violin and reading a passage, Luke Chapter 2, from the Bible. On 31 December, New Year's Eve. A second short program was broadcast.
The main audience for both these transmissions was an unknown number of shipboard radio operators along the Atlantic Coast. Although now seen as a landmark, these two broadcasts were barely noticed at the time and soon forgotten.
I can't tell you the name of the first radio program, but I do remember listening to the radio as a small child. This would have been about 1949-50. My favourite child's program was "Story Time." The show had a theme song and it was called "The Teddy Bear's Picnic".
Wow that was a long time ago.
Blessings.
Kait
"One of the first signals of significant power that carried voice and music was accomplished in 1906 by Reginald Fessenden when he made a Christmas Eve broadcast to ships at sea from Massachusetts. He played "O Holy Night" on his violin and read passages from the Bible"