Election Free Zone: The first radio broadcast
Are you fed up with all the election coverage? Every day PM is bringing you something entirely bereft of the subject.
Here is a clip of the first ever radio broadcast, made by Canadian-born radio telephony pioneer Reginald Fessenden on Christmas Eve 1906, when he beamed a "Christmas concert" to the crews of the ships of the United Fruit Company out in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
Have an idea for our Election Free Zone? Tweet us using the hashtag #ElectionFreeZone.
(Photo: Crystal radio. Credit: Getty Images)
Duration:
This clip is from
Featured in...
Election Free Zone—PM
An oasis away from General Election news
More clips from PM
-
Prosecutors at rape trial allege Russell Brand was 'ruthless'
Duration: 03:23
-
Martin Lewis explains car finance compensation
Duration: 04:40
-
Tourist hotspot 'bans' campervans
Duration: 04:18
-
The art of the making the perfect jacket potato
Duration: 03:47