From the earliest days of radio, broadcasting has had its origins in the United States. In 1906, the first experimental stations were sending music over the radio waves to ships at sea. In 1912, the United States started to license experimental broadcast stations. In the 1920s, the United States switched to its current pattern of station call signs.
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| - From the earliest days of radio, broadcasting has had its origins in the United States. In 1906, the first experimental stations were sending music over the radio waves to ships at sea. In 1912, the United States started to license experimental broadcast stations. In the 1920s, the United States switched to its current pattern of station call signs.
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| - From the earliest days of radio, broadcasting has had its origins in the United States. In 1906, the first experimental stations were sending music over the radio waves to ships at sea. In 1912, the United States started to license experimental broadcast stations. Unlike many other countries, broadcasting within the U.S. has been operated exclusively by private organizations. There is no equivalent to the BBC in the United States. The Public Broadcasting System and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting do provide some programming, but they provide it on a contract, purchased basis to educational television (and radio) stations, most of which are either privately owned by local non-profits or by the school board of a community. The rest of all broadcasting is done by private companies who all but have an ownership of the channel they operate on, even though the fiction of holding a hearing for a license renewal is done by the FCC every few years. Recent changes have increased the number of broadcast stations one entity may own, thus allowing very large companies like Clear Channel Communications to own hundreds of stations that reach something like 20% of the entire country. Back when the national networks had considerable more reach, they were each limited to no more than seven broadcast stations of their own. In the 1920s, the United States switched to its current pattern of station call signs.
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