Internet has been one of the greatest revolutions, which has impacted almost every sphere of our lives be it the domain of entertainment, knowledge, information or others. It has also become the widest source of knowledge, information, entertainment and innumerable other things.

Due to fast advancement in the domain of the Internet, a number of live radio stations have come into being. These channels are keeping people updated with all the current happenings and news which are taking place across the society. Nowadays, people are quite busy with their jobs and various other tasks due to which they do not have ample time for television or radio. Whereas, the Internet has become a convenient means which enables you to tune into number of live radio channels to seek entertainment. These channels also give news on diverse issues such as politics, sports, entertainment and various others things.

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You push a lever on your remote, and your remote control plane veers to the left. It almost seems like magic. Radio control is one of the most magical inventions of the modern era. It has a very long and intriguing history.

Linguistic research into the origins of the word radio reveals that it was from the prefix “radio-”meaning concerned with radiations. The word radio came into being before Hertz’s discovering of electromagnetic radiations. Initially what was radio-telegraphy and radio-telephony over time came to be just radio. One of the first people to popularize the term was another pioneer in America in the field of wireless transmission: Dee Forest.

Tesla demonstrated wireless telegraphy in 1893 almost eight years after the discovery of the electromagnetic waves by Hertz. Jagdish Chandra Bose in 1894 used electromagnetic waves to ignite gun powder and strike a gong in Calcutta (Now Kolkatta) in India.  That possibly was the dawn of wireless/radio communications and its applications in science. Tesla in 1896 transmitted wireless signals for nearly 30 miles distance and patented his first four tuned circuit wireless system as being the first practical wireless transmission equipment. Marconi in 1899 spanned the English channel with this wireless transmission.

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Perhaps much more than television, which actually represents an evolution of the radio itself, the radio since its inception has succeeded in a goal unthinkable at the time: a reference point for the immediate information and entertainment.
Surely the golden age of radio can be found around the 50s, after the Second World War, during which the radio had become the sole source of information for many families and many radio stations as Venetian, Venice, London had become the only realistic source of information and news about the status of submitted and the situation of the partisans who fought in secret.

In Italy it is the radio after the war that lives her greatest thanks to the exponential development of the RAI, which is the Italian Radio Hearings, and the sharp fall in the price of these devices can be purchased at virtually all Italians. In 1951, transmitted the first live radio fm of the Sanremo Festival and since then the radio will become the central vehicle for public opinion and the widespread dissemination of information and trends. Are suddenly created three public radio stations, National, Second and Third and at the same time is adjusted the frequency of the radio log, which must be equitable from the outset and monitored by the special Commission.

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