A good overview of the birth of radio broadcasting in the US?

[rurallib]

3. About ten years ago (more probably) I was working to get

some folks interested in starting up a left leaning radio station under the FCC's new guidelines for local radio. I dropped out, but some of the folks that I worked with along the way did get a station going .

Along the way I accidentally picked up some interesting bits and pieces about radios history - little of which will help you, but is interesting.

For instance the guy who ran WSUI in the early '20s would take the transmitter home with him at night.

One of the reasons that the FCC opened up licenses for "local" radio (under 100 watt on open space on FM) was that there were so many pirate radio stations across the country. We had one around here. It was run on no regular hours from a location that would move about practically weekly.

The station played some wild music and had some very funny bits between records.

The FCC wanted to stomp pirates out and went after them all hard.
From what I read at one time in the '20s and '30s there were radio 'stations' on nearly every block.