With the flip of a switch in 1910, Lee deForest ushered in an era of radio communications that would provide instant, long-distance wireless communication. Bettmann / Corbis On January 13, 1910, tenor ...

Michael J. Socolow is a member of the Library of Congress Radio Preservation Task Force, and was on the conference organizing team for the "Century of Broadcasting" conference. Those invisible signals ...

Broadcasters keep popping up in the news. Broadcasting — distributing radio and television content for public audiences — has been around for a century, but is facing a uniquely challenging landscape ...