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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 How the Titanic\\u2019s Sinking changed Guglielmo Marconi\\u2019s business
\\n\\u2022 The Radio Act of 1912 \\u2013 What it portended
\\n\\u2022 Charles Herrold and KCBS San Francisco
\\n\\u2022 Lee Deforest sells out to AT&T
\\n\\u2022 Edwin Howard Armstrong invents regeneration, and later the superheterodyne receiver
\\n\\u2022 War comes to Europe
\\n\\u2022 The Navy takes over wireless
\\n\\u2022 How World War I caused radio technology to boom
\\n\\u2022 AT&T, Westinghouse, General Electric, and the newly formed RCA make a deal
\\n\\u2022 David Sarnoff\\u2019s Rise to power
\\n\\u2022 KDKA and the birth of regular broadcasting

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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.