Radio was the first broadcast medium, and during this period people regularly tuned in to their favorite radio programs, and families gathered to listen to the home radio in the evening. According to a 1947 C. E. Hooper survey, 82 out of 100 Americans were found to be radio listeners. A variety of new entertainment formats and genres were created for the new medium, many of which later migrated to television: radio plays, mystery serials, soap operas, quiz shows, talent shows, daytime and evening variety hours, situation comedies, play-by-play sports, children’s shows, cooking shows, and more.
In the 1950s, television surpassed radio as the most popular broadcast medium, and commercial radio programming shifted to narrower formats of news, talk, sports and music. Religious broadcasters, listener-supported public radio and college stations provide their own distinctive formats.
Here below is a set of vintage photos that shows people with radios from between the 1920s and 1950s.
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s
Radio from between the 1920s and 1950s