AND THE ANSWER IS: RADIO! RCA's annual report 1929.
And you can find that and read a truly thrilling historical account of the 1929 crash that reads like a novel in Andrew Ross Sorkin's bestseller 1929. If you want to read what Rumpole reads, grab this book for your holiday reading, and you can thank us on January 1.
Which company's annual report stated the following?
" Radio/Television/Facebook/Instagram/Tik Tok/ (pick one) has helped create a vast new audience of a magnitude which was never dreamed off...this audience, invisible but attentive, differs not only in size but in kind from any audience the world has ever known, a linking up of millions of homes and people."
A. RCA's annual report in 1929;
B. Colombia Broadcast Systems' (CBS) annual report 1950.
C. Facebook's annual report 2013;
D. Meta's (owns Instagram) annual report 2014;
E. ByteDance's (Chinese Company that owns Tik Tok) annual report 2022;
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Well maybe you should try and guess first and have some fun
Reported by the New York Times, March 15, 1929
PROGRESS OF RADIO REVIEWED BY NBC; Advisory Council Calls 1928 Period of the Greatest Broadcast Development. SYSTEM SPENT $9,000,000 Now Includes 63 Stations--O.D. Young and M.H. Aylesworth Discuss Outlook.
"Radio broadcasting passed through its stage of greatest development during 1928, yet the surface of its possibilities has barely been scratched, according to the annual report of the Advisory Council of the National Broadcasting Company, made public yesterday. A total of $9,000,000 was spent by the company during the year, $4,000,000 of which was for entertainers and $2,000,000 for toll charges for wire lines used throughout the country to link and coordinate the NBC networks.
These facts were brought out in the annual messages of Owen D. Young, chairman of the boards of the NBC and the General Electric Company, and M. H. Aylesworth, president of the broadcasting company, which were part of the report. The complete report covers the achievements of the organization during the twelve months of 1928.
The National system has been extended to include sixty-three stations scattered throughout the country. Permanent wire lines of the organization total 14,800 circuit-miles. More than 1,500,000 letters were said to have been received from radio listeners during the year. Special attention has been paid during the year to the development of religious and agricultural programs, with marked success in both fields.
"A few years ago," said Mr. Young's message, "radio in the home was a novelty and not the institution it is today. Now it has become an integral part of American life. It has helped create a vast new audience, of a magnitude which men never dreamed of, which weighs and judges our political and social speakers, our musicians and our educators.
"This new audience, invisible but attentive, differs not only in size but in kind from any audience the world has ever known. It is in reality the linking up of millions of homes. Inevitably this has had its effect upon the nature of the programs presented. What its effect will ultimately be no one can predict, but in spite of the development which has been crowded into these past few years, we can still say the surface of radio's possibilities has only been scratched." read more
https://www.nytimes.com/1929/03/15/archives/progress-of-radio-reviewed-by-nbc-advisory-council-calls-1928.html
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