{"id":21579,"date":"2016-08-28T04:52:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T08:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21579"},"modified":"2016-10-29T07:42:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T11:42:44","slug":"first-radio-commercial-hit-airwaves-90-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21579","title":{"rendered":"August 28, 1922&#8230;The First Radio Commercial Airs On WEAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38651\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WEAF-New-York.png\" alt=\"weaf-new-york\" width=\"250\" height=\"177\" \/><br \/>\nAugust 28, 1922&#8230;The First Radio Commercial Airs On WEAF<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that AT&amp;T invented radio advertising? It&#8217;s true, and their first and only involvement with broadcast radio, as a station owner, left a lasting legacy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only fitting that the story be told here by radio, and this five minute NPR piece tells it in detail using what radio is most famous for&#8230;theater of the mind. To hear it, click the large blue play button at the top left on the page that is linked below. Enjoy and share! &#8211; Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/08\/29\/160265990\/first-radio-commercial-hit-airwaves-90-years-ago\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/08\/29\/160265990\/first-radio-commercial-hit-airwaves-90-years-ago<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/1071289852908563\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 28, 1922&#8230;The First Radio Commercial Airs On WEAF Did you know that AT&amp;T invented radio advertising? It&#8217;s true, and their first and only involvement with broadcast radio, as a station owner, left a lasting legacy. It&#8217;s only fitting that the story be told here by radio, and this five minute NPR piece tells it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[763,724],"class_list":["post-21579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-att","tag-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}