101 years ago today, on March 7, 1924 (February 3, 1924 in the lunar calendar), a radio broadcast was broadcast 7,000 miles. Fessenden Studies Radio Broadcasting On the evening of March 7, 1924, the speech at the banquet table in New York was broadcast 7,000 miles across six stations, covering two continents, setting a milestone in the history of radio broadcasting. The radio station's signal from New York flew across the country to San Francisco and then to British Radio in Manchester. The epoch-making broadcast was hailed as a model of radio connecting people around the world. Recent figures show that there are nearly 800 radio stations in the United States, and that 5 million American households now own radio receivers, and that number is growing rapidly.