Posted on 23/12/06
Entertainment radio reaches its centenary
It was on Christmas Eve, 100 years ago, that an eccentric Canadian inventor made history when he produced the world's first public radio broadcast.Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, born in Knowlton, Que., isn't well known in his native land, but his technological feat rivals that of other, better-known radio pioneers, including Italy's Guglielmo Marconi.
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