Cross Talk: Season Four, Episode 1

On how we communicate in the 20s: 1920/2020.  From January 17, 2020.  In 1920 your radio and your telephone gave you access to the world; in 2020, one device that does everything gives you the world on demand, including radio.  Radio changed everything.  Makes fair dealing use of audio from Smithsonian TV (America in Color: The 1920s); the original Wheaties "jingle" 1927; 1929 news reel (ownership not clear); movie The Jazz Singer (Warner Brothers, 1929); archive audio of William Lyon MacKenzie King, 1927. For educational purposes.  After 100 years of radio, what's different? And what is...rather alike? First episode of Season Four.  For more on the 100th anniversary of licensed broadcast radio, please refer to Season 3, Episode 9 - from December 2019, about XWA Montreal becoming the world's first licensed radio broadcasting station in December 1919.