Established in September 2011 by UNESCO, World Radio Day celebrates the profound influence of radio technology in spreading diverse, democratic discourse. Because of the medium’s relatively low cost ...

Quick, name someone influential in the history of radio. Who do did you think of? Marconi? Tesla? Armstrong? Hertz? Perhaps Sarnoff? We bet only a handful would have said Reginald Fessenden. That’s a ...

Fessenden in his later years. Courtesy of the State Archives of North Carolina. While Guglielmo Marconi sent the first message by wireless in 1896, Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden saw greater ...

Matt Largey profiles one of radio's unsung pioneers, marking the centennial of the first voice broadcast. On Dec. 24, 1906, Morse code gave way to the human voice and a Handel piece heard by sailors ...

Dec. 12, 1901 marks the date of the first radio transmission across the Atlantic by Reginald Fessenden. Scott Mason, our Tar Heel Traveler, tells us more about Fessenden and his accomplishment. Dec.

Most people have heard of Guglielmo Marconi, who is credited with the invention of radio. Few people have heard of Reginald Fessenden, and fewer still are aware of what he did in Brant Rock on ...

He changed the world with a question about the weather. How Canadian. , we're exploring what Canada might have been like without a few extraordinary citizens. There's ...

Alarmed by the sinking of the Titanic, Reginald Fessenden, a Canadian radio pioneer, began exploring in earnest how a high-frequency oscillator could be used detect icebergs in conditions of low ...