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Herrold
Title: Herrold
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 351 | Pages: 1.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Herrold
Herrold was the first person to broadcast radio entertainment to people on a regular basis. He was considered a broadcasting pioneer. “In 1921 Herrold received a license as KQW. In 1949 KQW became KCBS in San Francisco”
Charles Herrold was born in 1875 in the Midwest. He was raised in San Jose and he went to Stanford University. He later moved to San Francisco and set up an electrical manufacturing company, but unfortunately the big earthquake hit in 1906 …showed first 75 words of 351 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 351 total…broadcaster because people who were ordinary citizens could not by radios until KDKA “and therefore men like Herrold and de Forest were not really broadcasters because their audiences were amateurs, not citizens.” However, Herrold is considered the first to broadcast to an audience on a regular basis. Herrold ended up dying in 1948, and he was not the well-known person he wanted to be. When he died no one knew him, and no one remembered him.
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