Nowadays, people don’t listen to radio as much as they did few decades ago, throughout developing technologies, people have more entertaining things to do other than listening to radio, such as playing video games and computer but in the 1920’s it was different. 1920’s was the year that many modern conveniences became part of people’s life, such as telephones and automobiles, air planes. Today, we have easy access to all of them, but back in the 1920s it wasn’t. The developing new technologies and great inventions in 1920s and 1930s was essential to have our present technologies.
In 1901 Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden had made world first wireless transmission of the human voice. Not Guglielmo Marconi who is credited with inventing the radio. Three years later on July 22, 1922, radio station CKCK in Regina owned by The Leader made its first broadcast. This was significant event in Sasketchewan because according to 1921 census, over 70 percent of population lived in farms far, far apart from one another. Only few of them had access to telephones and automobile. When CKCK made its first broadcast, radio quickly began to break down this isolation. This phenomenon of radio quickly spread all over the country, by 1924 there were already fifty-one stations across Canada. The first national radio network began in 1923, when Canadian National Railways installed. CNR created the first coast to coast radio network. In that time, radio not only provided news and events it was one form of entertainment.