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Election Free Zone: The first radio broadcast

Are you fed up with all the election coverage? Every day PM is bringing you something entirely bereft of the subject.

Here is a clip of the first ever radio broadcast, made by Canadian-born radio telephony pioneer Reginald Fessenden on Christmas Eve 1906, when he beamed a "Christmas concert" to the crews of the ships of the United Fruit Company out in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

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(Photo: Crystal radio. Credit: Getty Images)

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