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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/breaking-walls/

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 David Sarnoff announces the birth of TV at The 1939 World\\u2019s Fair
\\n\\u2022 Edwin Howard Armstrong Invents FM
\\n\\u2022 Television Experiments in the 1920s and 1930s
\\n\\u2022 Sarnoff and Armstrong\\u2019s Crumbling Friendship
\\n\\u2022 How World War II Stopped Television\\u2019s Commercial Expansion
\\n\\u2022 William S. Paley\\u2019s Plan to make CBS the #1 Network
\\n\\u2022 The Rise of Arthur Godfrey
\\n\\u2022 Sarnoff\\u2019s Court Battles
\\n\\u2022 The Death of Edwin Howard Armstrong
\\n\\u2022 The CBS Talent Raids of 1948-49
\\n\\u2022 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
\\n\\u2022 The Simple Art of Macabre

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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.