christmas in 1906, a message by morse code, all the ships in western atlantic belong to the united fruit company and the were bringing bananas up from the places like honduras to the east coast ports of boston, new york, baltimore, charleston, havana. saying, ma listen for broadcast at one minute to midnight on christmas eve. christmas eve 1906, it happened to be a dark and stormy night. there was a blizzard of blowing off cape cod. the ships were lumbering through the ocean towards their ports. but all of them, the radio operators went to the radio shacks, switched on their radios. through the static, through the morse said those of other ships talking to one another and so there something quite different that they had never ever heard before. they heard this. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and thus did the national competition begin, because a few days after that the radio station opened in pasadena, california, just about the musical star which still exist. the real radio station opened that vha in madison, wisconsin. and america started talking to itself. and so that image that i cherish so much of the famine in