RADIO IN THE 1930'S

1920'S

• Radio was still gettting started by the end of the 1920's
• During the 1920's the favorite thing for most people to do on the radio had been listening to music
• By the end of the decade manynprograms had been set up and gained populartity

RADIO BECOMES MORE POPULAR

• Due to the Great Depression radio prices fell
• Due to the Great Depression radio prices fell
• In 1916 radio prices had been between $30 and $200
• In 1916 radio prices had been between $30 and $200
• In the early thirties the average price was $10

RADIO CONNECTS THE NATION

• Due to the falling prices people all across the nation bought radios
• News that would take weeks to spread on paper now spread in days, minutes, and even live as the event was happening
• On March 12, 1933 an estimated 60 million people were listening about President Roosevelt's speech on the bank crisis
• In 1935 Roosevelt started the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) which allowed the spread of radio to rural areas
• The entire country had radios and as radio spread people felt connected as they all tuned in to the same stations

WAR OF THE WORLDS

• October 30, 1938
• A man named Orson Wells created a radio show called "War of the Worlds"
• The broadcast was about aliens invsding Earth
• Many people believed the story was true and panic broke out across the nation
• Demonstrated how much people were willing to believe on the radio

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://www.midcoast.com/~lizmcl/rfy.html
• http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/life_15.html
• http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma05/macdonald/radiosfx/bg_radio_sfx.html
• http://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/471921.html