Year 1938.

 A law sets up military censorship in Spain. 

There are 650 Radio transmitters and 26 million radio receivers in the U.S.A. 

30 October: Orson Welles's programme based on H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds's broadcast on CBS and sows panic among thousands of radio listeners.














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