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Radio's version of 'Who's on first?' (origin of radio broadcasting)(reprinted...

Several people claim to have made the first radio broadcast transmission, so the exact origin of radio broadcasting remains in doubt. Several radio broadcasting pioneers are Nathan Stubblefield, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden and Lee de Forest. Charles David Herrold built a radio-telephone station in 1909. Earle Melvin Terry founded 'the nation's oldest radio station,' 9XM, now WHA, in Madison, WI.

The origins of radio broadcasting are subject to continuing dispute. An eccentric inventor in backwoods Kentucky is thought by some to have been the first to transmit the human voice from

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