Media forms delivered over the air or by wire on a schedule set by the broadcaster rather than the audience. Belongs here: radio and television as media forms. Does not belong here: streaming video and other on-demand media, grouped under digital and interactive media, or the broadcast hardware itself, which belongs to the technology type.
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Broadcasting (Wikipedia)
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Broadcasting began with AM radio, which became popular around 1920 with the spread of vacuum tube radio transmitters and receivers.
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