Broadcast turns 100: from the Hindenburg disaster to the Hottest 100, here’s how radio shaped the world
Peter Hoar looks back on a century of radio, from dots and dashes to surviving in an era of podcasts, in this crossposting from The Conversation.
Eighty-one years ago, a broadcast of Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds supposedly caused mass hysteria in America, as listeners thought martians had invaded New Jersey.
There are varying accounts of the controversial incident, and it remains a topic of fascination, even today.
Back when Welles’s fictional martians attacked, broadcast radio was considered a state-of-the-art technology.
