A retrospective look at key milestones for NBC as the media pioneer celebrates its centennial
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NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal via Ge The first-to-market advantage is built right into the name: the National Broadcasting Company.
NBC was created a century ago amid the maelstrom of a mid-1920s gold rush that emerged around the cutting-edge technology of radio broadcasting.
The pages of Variety in that era were filled with stories about new radio sta- tions signing on and others quickly going out of business. It wasn’t long before we were reporting extensively on legal skirmishes around copyright concerns, music royalties and charges of monopolies leveled against the biggest players in radio — including Radio Corp. of America, AT&T and Westinghouse Electric Corp.
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