<P> The first radio news program was broadcast August 31 , 1920 by station 8MK in Detroit , Michigan , which survives today as all - news format station WWJ under ownership of the CBS network . The first college radio station began broadcasting on October 14 , 1920 from Union College , Schenectady , New York under the personal call letters of Wendell King , an African - American student at the school . </P>
<P> The first radio news program was broadcast August 31 , 1920 by station 8MK in Detroit , Michigan , which survives today as all - news format station WWJ under ownership of the CBS network . The first college radio station began broadcasting on October 14 , 1920 from Union College , Schenectady , New York under the personal call letters of Wendell King , an African - American student at the school . </P>
who made radio possible to the masses in 1920
who made radio possible to the masses in 1920
station 8MK in Detroit , Michigan Union College , Schenectady , New York
station 8MK in Detroit , Michigan Union College , Schenectady , New York