{"id":24934,"date":"2014-08-28T05:12:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T09:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24934"},"modified":"2014-08-28T05:12:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T09:12:58","slug":"first-radio-commercial-hit-airwaves-90-years-ago-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24934","title":{"rendered":"First Radio Commercial Hit Airwaves 90 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 28, 1922&#8230;The First Radio Commercial Airs On WEAF<\/p>\n<p>Would you believe that AT&#038;T invented radio advertising? It&#8217;s true, and their first and only involvement with broadcast radio 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. 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=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/08\/29\/160265990\/first-radio-commercial-hit-airwaves-90-years-ago\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"First Radio Commercial Hit Airwaves 90 Years Ago\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/First-Radio-Commercial-Hit-Airwaves-90-Years-Ago.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/08\/29\/160265990\/first-radio-commercial-hit-airwaves-90-years-ago\">First Radio Commercial Hit Airwaves 90 Years Ago<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reporter John McDonough reports how AT&#038;T ran the first-ever radio commercial on its station WEAF in New York 90 years ago this week. It changed the way broadcast was economically structured.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/721357401235145\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 28, 1922&#8230;The First Radio Commercial Airs On WEAF Would you believe that AT&#038;T invented radio advertising? It&#8217;s true, and their first and only involvement with broadcast radio 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 in detail using what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24935,"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":[724],"class_list":["post-24934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24934","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=24934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}