Color TV, Morning News and Late-Night: NBC Has a History of Firsts in Broadcasting

The first-to-market advantage is built right into the name: the National Broadcasting Company.

NBC was created a century ago amid the maelstrom of a mid-1920s gold rush that emerged around the cutting-edge technology of radio broadcasting.

The pages of Variety in that era were filled with stories about new radio sta- tions signing on and […]