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Breaking Walls is a once-per-month audio documentary on the history of American Network Radio Broadcasting, focusing on people, places, and events from the Golden Age of Radio.

http://thewallbreakers.com/ 

To find out more about James Scully: 

http://thewallbreakers.com/jamesscully/

I personally recommend listening to episodes in this order to get the full story of the beginning of Radio Wave, and the beginning of the three major networks NBC, CBS, ABC.

EP75: We Are Echoes\\u2014The Birth Of Radio (1887 - 1912)

EP76: Over There\\u2014The War for Radio\\u2019s Airwaves (1912 - 1922)

EP77: The Birth Of The Radio Networks\\u2014From NBC To CBS To Mutual Broadcasting (1922 - 1934)

EP82: Depression, War, And The Birth of ABC (1932 - 1946)

EP83: Sarnoff & Paley: Tainted Friendships, Tall Tales, Talent Raids, and TV (1934 - 1952)

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Okay so I\'m going to copy and paste from James Scully\'s page for the high lights .... because truly I can not beat his own words for his own podcast.

Highlights:
\\n\\u2022 Why the Blizzard of 1888 played such an important role in the need for wireless telegraphy
\\n\\u2022 Who Was Heinrich Hertz? What experiment made him the father of Hertzian Waves?
\\n\\u2022 What Oliver Lodge, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, and Amos DollBear have in common
\\n\\u2022 Guglielmo Marconi, father of
\\n\\u2022 The benefits to wireless telegraphy
\\n\\u2022 David Sarnoff \\u2014 His start between 1900 \\u2013 1906
\\n\\u2022 Why the press want to get involved
\\n\\u2022 Lee Deforest \\u2014 Inventor, Fraud, or both?
\\n\\u2022 What incredibly important event happened in December of 1901 in New Foundland
\\n\\u2022 Why the American Government wanted to regulate wireless telegraphy
\\n\\u2022 Reginald Fessenden, Christmas Eve, Oh Holy Night, and Brant Rock
\\n\\u2022 The Titanic Disaster \\u2014 How it changed wireless telegraphy forever
\\n\\u2022 The Radio Box Memo
\\n\\u2022 What\\u2019s next?

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If you are interested in learning about the history of the Radio; going as far back as learning about the waves that make Radio possible then James is the best person to listen too.   He makes learning about the actual beginning of wireless telegraphy; and building the very first radio into a story ....  he brings to life the men and the women whom strive to bring the beginning of sharing of information beyond the newspaper; or telegraph.   He uses background music and sounds that is highly fitting for the time period.