The History Of Broadcasting: Further Reading: Briggs, Asa, The Birth of Broadcasting: The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom (New York 1961); Paulu, Burton, Radio and Television Broadcasting on the European Continent (Minneapolis 1967).
4. International Broadcasting
The BBC pioneered international broadcasting in November 1927. It became a regular service for transmitting news and information to English-speaking citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations in 1932. However, international radio also was developed as a propaganda instrument for communism and fascism; the USSR began broadcasting to Great Britain in 1930, and Nazi Germany did the same in 1933.
Other Eastern European Countries. The other eastern European countries follow a pattern much like that of the USSR, with a broadcasting authority controlled by the Communist party. The exception is Yugoslavia, where broadcasting is handled by the six Yugoslav republics and two autonomous regions. The eight broadcasting organizations and their 49 stations have a high degree of independence.
Music was the mainstay for the first few years of broadcasting; it ranged from dance orchestras and the likes of the A 6- P Gypsies and the Cliquot Club Eskimos to the New York Philharmonic broadcasts on CBS and Walter Damrosch's Music Appreciation Hour on NBC.
Drama was first introduced into broadcasting by WGY in Schenectady, N. Y., in August 1922, in part because the area had few musicians and singers. In the spring of 1924 the WGY players were on network radio. By the end of the 1920's drama programs such as the Eveready Hour, Great Moments in History, and True Story were offered. First Nighter came along in 1930; Lux Radio Theater, the best known but not the first of the Hollywood-based dramatic shows, began in 1934.
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