Week 3-Radio

            I think that regulation and government intervention is the main force that influenced the formation and the shaping of the radio industry in the 1920s; I feel that the regulation and government intervention took charge of the radio industry and helped organize it so that all users could enjoy the benefits of the radio.

            The United States government during the early 1900’s was able to set up regulations and intervene in the radio industry to create a radio that useful to the users in which profit from it. The government is able to pass laws and acts that effect the uses of the radio, the laws and acts passed because they were directly involved with the military and/or the American people best benefit. The government intervened in the radio industry several times but the first time was helping to settle patents disputes between early inventors which helped standardize the radio. They also set up regulations the involved licensing which helped the radio from becoming to chaotic.

            The United States government noticed a military need for the radio, after the sinking of the Titanic where the radio was able to aide in saving lives by asking for help over the Marconi radio.  The government created the Radio Act of 1912, which gave the airwave to the military. The US Navy used the radio in World War I for quick communication. After the war was over the radio was released to civilians from the navy, so many people were interested in the new broadcasting medium that the government issued hundreds of licenses for frequency in 1923; the frequency was used to organize the radio waves. And finally the Radio Act of 1927 created the Federal Radio Commission which defined a number of regulations for the radio which lead to a more organized radio.