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It is generally recognised that the first radio transmission was made from a temporary station set up by
Guglielmo Marconi Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (; 25 April 187420 July 1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system. This led to Marconi ...
in 1895. This followed on from pioneering work in the field by a number of people including
Alessandro Volta Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (, ; 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist, chemist and lay Catholic who was a pioneer of electricity and power who is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and th ...
,
André-Marie Ampère André-Marie Ampère (, ; ; 20 January 177510 June 1836) was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics". He is also the inventor of nu ...
, Georg Ohm and
James Clerk Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and scientist responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and ligh ...
.Mimi Colligan, ''Golden Days of Radio'', Australia Post, 1991 The several potential contenders for the title of "oldest radio station" are listed below, organized by sign-on date. These are not restricted to
radio broadcasting Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...
, i.e., the transmissions were not necessarily intended to reach a wide audience.


Stations


AM on Mediumwave and Longwave


FM or Shortwave


Networks


See also

* History of radio * Timeline of radio * History of broadcasting *
AM broadcasting AM broadcasting is radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation (AM) transmissions. It was the first method developed for making audio radio transmissions, and is still used worldwide, primarily for medium wave (also known as "AM band") trans ...
** Extended AM broadcast band *
FM broadcasting FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting using frequency modulation (FM). Invented in 1933 by American engineer Edwin Armstrong, wide-band FM is used worldwide to provide high fidelity sound over broadcast radio. FM broadcasting is capab ...
** FM broadcasting in the USA **
List of the initial commercial FM station assignments issued by the Federal Communications Commission on October 31, 1940 This is a list of the first fifteen construction permits that were granted by the United States Federal Communications Commission The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government t ...
* * Oldest television station *
Time signal A time signal is a visible, audible, mechanical, or electronic signal used as a reference to determine the time of day. Church bells or voices announcing hours of prayer gave way to automatically operated chimes on public clocks; however, a ...
*


References

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