BRS Media's dotFM Congratulates FM -Frequency Modulation- Radio on Its 70th Anniversary; Fairleigh Dickinson University's WFDU to Rebroadcast FM's First Broadcast in 1935 Online at www.wfdu.fm.SAN FRANCISCO -- BRS BRS - Big Red Switch. This abbreviation is fairly common on-line. Media's dotFM(R), the exclusive worldwide registry for Web addresses ending in .FM, today congratulates FM Radio on its 70th anniversary. On June 16, 1935, the first demonstration of a new, static-free broadcasting technology called Frequency Modulation, or FM for short, was shown to the public. FM radio inventor Edwin Howard Armstrong Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – January 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. Armstrong was the inventor of the FM radio. Birth and education Edwin Howard Armstrong was born in Chelsea, New York, in 1890. was honored this past weekend in a radio broadcast on Fairleigh Dickinson University's WFDU (89.1 FM). The station marked the 70th anniversary of that first FM test with a special broadcast from the Alpine, New Jersey Alpine is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 2,183. According to Forbes, Alpine was ranked 8th on its list of "Most Expensive ZIP Codes 2005", with a 2004 median home sale price of $1,773,880. , transmitter Armstrong built for FM's first broadcast in 1935. That broadcast also aired Online at www.wfdu.fm and on 42.8 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. , the original frequency of the transmittals from a radio tower Armstrong built in Alpine. WFDU will rebroadcast the entire program on the Web (www.wfdu.fm) at 7 p.m. EDT EDT abbr. Eastern Daylight Time EDT Eastern Daylight Time EDT n abbr (US) (= Eastern Daylight Time) → hora de verano de Nueva York EDT on June 14 and June 16, 2005. WFDU's transmitter is on the same site as the world's first FM radio station; that tower is named in memory of Major E.H. Armstrong, the inventor of FM radio. "It's a significant anniversary in the history of radio. In 1935 Major Armstrong, the electronics genius who invented FM radio, saw his invention as a potentially huge broadcast breakthrough," remarked George T. Bundy, Chairman & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of BRS Media Inc. "70 years later his dream still exists. It's exciting to see WFDU honor this inventor with this historic rebroadcast both On Air and Online." WFDU 89.1 FM's website and online webcast is located at: www.wfdu.fm. Edwin Howard Armstrong was posthumously elected to the roster of electrical "greats" to stand beside such figures as Alexander Graham Bell, Marconi, and Pupin, by the International Telecommunications Union See ITU. (body, standard) International Telecommunications Union - (ITU) ITU-T, the telecommunication standardisation sector of ITU, is responsible for making technical recommendations about telephone and data (including fax) communications systems for PTTs and suppliers. in Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. . For more information about the FM Inventor visit the Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation website at: www.armstrong.fm. BRS Media, a member of the National Association of Broadcasters, the International Webcasting Association and the Webcaster Alliance, is a full service Internet e-commerce firm that helps radio and multimedia web sites build and brand on the power of the Web. Currently celebrating 10 years online, the company's portfolio comprises: dotFM(R) (www.dot.fm) & dotAM(R) (www.dot.am), domain registrar of premium multimedia .FM and .AM domains; iDotz.Net (www.idotz.net) domain registrar of all gTLD domains (.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info & .name), as well as, boutique domains (.md, .la, .tv, .cc, & .ws); iMobz.com (www.imobz.com), the coolest mobile content site featuring: ring tones, cell phone games, wallpaper and screensavers; @Radio.FM & @Radio.AM, free Web based email services; and the ever-popular Web-Radio (www.web-radio.fm), the leading portal for "tuning in" Radio on the Internet. BRS Media Inc. can be found on the World Wide Web at www.brsmedia.fm. dotFM and dotAM are registered trademarks of BRS Media, Inc. |
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