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  EH.Net Encyclopedia: History of the Radio Industry in the United States to 1940
Radio broadcasting was the cheapest form of entertainment, and it provided the public with far better entertainment than most people were accustomed to.
The growth of radio in the 1920s and 30s can be seen in Tables 1, 2, and 3, which give the number of stations, the amount of advertising revenue and sales of radio equipment.
That radio was to be a regulated industry was decided in 1912, when Congress passed a Radio Act that required people to obtain a license from the government in order to operate a radio transmitter.
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January 5 - FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.
November 7 - In Washington, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion (it opened to traffic on July 1, 1940 as the third-longest suspension bridge in the world).
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Years: 1937 1938 1939 - 1940 - 1941 1942 1943 Decades : 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s Centuries :\ 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1940 in architecture 1940 in art 1940 in a...
November 5 - U.S. presidential election, 1940: Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United States' first third-term president.
November 11 - World War II: Battle of Taranto - The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
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