On This Day in Telephone History November 1ST 1926 AT&T Sold Radio Station WEAF to NBC. AT&T Broadcasting Company of America sold its experimental radio broadcasting station WEAF (later WNBC, WRCA) to the National Broadcasting Company. AT&T undertook to develop radio broadcasting in order to ascertain how it could be made most useful in its business. The experimental station was very successful in transmitting music and other entertainment acceptable to listeners and also in furnishing a medium through which businesses could make friends by providing entertainment for the public. The further the experiment was carried the more evident it became that the objective of a broadcasting station was quite different from that of a telephone system. AT&T concluded, after several years of experimentation, to sell the broadcasting station which it had built up.

On This Day in Telephone History November 1ST 1926

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On This Day in Telephone History November 1ST 1926 AT&T Sold Radio Station WEAF to NBC. AT&T Broadcasting Company of America sold its experimental radio broadcasting station WEAF (later WNBC, WRCA) to the National Broadcasting Company. AT&T undertook to develop radio broadcasting in order to ascertain how it could be made most useful in its business. The experimental station was very successful in transmitting music and other entertainment acceptable to listeners and also in furnishing a medium through which businesses could make friends by providing entertainment for the public. The further the experiment was carried the more evident it became that the objective of a broadcasting station was quite different from that of a telephone system. AT&T concluded, after several years of experimentation, to sell the broadcasting station which it had built up.