Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

Against the backdrop of radio’s Golden Age, Empire of the Air tells the history of radio. More

For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, Ken Burns examines the lives of three extraordinary men who shared the primary responsibility for this invention and its early success, and whose genius, friendship, rivalry and enmity interacted in tragic ways.

AIR DATE 1/25/22