History(29.radio)
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# h! J: T/ `( Y0 j# w These days we take for granted the wide variety of music available on the radio. But, this wasn't always the case. In the early days of radio, stations were capable of broadcasting only a narrow range of sounds, which was all right for the human voice but music didn't sound very good. There was also a great deal of crackling and other static noises that further interfered妨碍; 抵触; 冲突; 介入 with the quality of the sound.
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A man named Edwin Armstrong, who was a music lover, set out to change this. He invented FM radio, a technology that allowed stations to send a broad range of frequencies频率; 发生次数; 周率that greatly improved the quality of the music.
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9 [* W3 X c4 m- m Now, you'd think that this would have made him a millionaire百万富翁; 大富豪; it didn't. Radio stations at that time had invested 投资, 授予, 花费; 投资 enormous amounts of money in the old technology.
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0 X0 ~- }9 r; _. _, E So the last thing they wanted was to invest millions more in the new technology. Nor did they want to have to compete with other radio stations that had a superior司; 长辈; 长官; 优势者, 优胜者 sound and could put them out of business. So they pressured the Federal Communications Commission --- the department of the United States government that regulates 管理; 为...制订规章; 控制; 校准radio stations --- to put restrictive限制的, 限定的, 拘束的 regulations规章; 条例; 规则, 规定; 管理$ p6 R* v3 Q: P1 j% W5 k
on FM radio.
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; R# [8 k/ ^; L5 B; D' m The result was that its use was limited to a very small area around New England. Of course as we all know, Edwin Armstrong's FM technology eventually prevailed流行, 获胜, 盛行 and was adopted by thousands of stations around the world. But this took years of court battles and he never saw how it came to affect the lives of almost everyone.
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