What radio did for the public

Consider that before radio, the only way you could hear a live performance of anything was to attend that performance. True, records of live performances in a rudimentary form may have been available, but  those were recordings of performances, not the performances themselves. With radio, listeners could hear politicians make speeches, symphonies perform, comedians play to live audiences, etc. It allowed the common folks in out-of-the-way places to hear first-class entertainment live.



More HERE about old radio broadcasts.