American Broadcasting during World War I: Its Strategic Military and Propaganda Significance

The article is dedicated to evolution of US radio broadcasting in the years of World War I. Being totally controlled by government bodies radio communications primarily had strategic military significance. Propaganda aspects of transmitted radiograms increasingly mattered as well. By the end of the war evolving voice and music techniques signified the start of experimental musical broadcasts for limited audiences.

World War I, radio broadcasting, state monopoly over radio broadcasting, Guillermo Marconi, transmitters, US navy, military radio communications, censorship, the Morse code, Trans-Atlantic radio communications, George Creel Committee, propaganda significance of radio communications, reception of radio signals in Russia, radio concerts