The 1930s were a very different time culturally, but radio broadcasting was already in full force in ways we’d recognize today.
The industry was already well-established when the 1935 Broadcasting Yearbook was published. There were major stations operating around the country and more than a dozen of them were represented in ads in the annual Yearbook seeking national advertisers.
Here’s a look at the regional ads in that year’s edition in the order they appeared:
