Continuous Wave
A newsletter and site exploring the forgotten history of broadcast and all electronic media.
Why learn from broadcasting’s past? Because everything is broadcasting.
Samuel F.B. Morse went from broke artist to living legend. But for the inventor of the telegraph, it was never enough.
For more than two decades, the biggest US radio networks insisted on live programming and tried to ban recorded material on air. Why?
Radio's "liveness bias" started as a regulation, then turned into a business model that grew ever more absurd
Can we learn from the warnings of the past?
There's so much great scholarship on radio and podcasting. Here's a list to get you started.
