WASHINGTON, March 30, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S.
Census Bureau:
FM RADIO DEBUTS
Profile America — Monday, March
30th. FM radio is 74 years old. In March 1941, the first commercial FM station went
on the air — W47NV in Nashville,
Tennessee. FM —standing for frequency modulation — was first
proposed in a scientific paper written by Edwin Armstrong in 1922. By 1934, he was
demonstrating to network officials how FM was unaffected by static,
like all the radio stations then on the air, which used AM, or
amplitude modulation. World War II interrupted the advance of FM
broadcasting, which surged in the 1960s when it began broadcasting
in stereo. Today, some 90,000 people work in radio's 15,432
stations, of which over 10,700 broadcast on the FM band.
Profile America is in its 18th year as a public service of
the U.S. Census Bureau.
Sources: Kane's Famous First Facts, 6299
First station:
http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2012/03/05/happy-71st-birthday-to-fm-radio
Edwin Armstrong:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Spring2002/Armstrong.html
Radio employment/NAICS 515112:
http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=BP_2012_00A1&prodType=table
Radio stations:
http://www.fcc.gov/document/broadcast-station-totals-december-31-2014
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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau