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BROADCASTING IN CHILE ...

The pioneers of broadcasting in Chile were Arturo Salazar and Enrique Sazie. Salazar was a professor at the School of Engineering, University of Chile and was in charge of the electronics lab. As a teenager in the late nineteenth century, followed in the footsteps of Edison built a phonograph, a recording machine and a speaker.
In the laboratory of the University of Chile, Salazar built a wave receiving equipment that allowed him to capture telegraphy stations in Europe and the U.S..
Sazie Enrique Herrera was born just as Edison Salazar emulated and built his first transmitter several years later. In 1922, in a room at the University de Chile, brought fans to the radio to the Radio Club de Chile, chaired by Harvey Diamond.
Sazie The great desire was to offer programs to the public. To that end he began to build a transmitter in the laboratory of Professor Salazar, and requested the assistance of the Communications Battalion, which provided three lamps Telefunken fifty watts each. Once you have the transmitter, Sazie set about building the receiver, which put on the second floor of the building of the newspaper El Mercurio.
The first radio transmission Chilean
The August 19, 1922 was the big day. On that occasion, issued the progress of the First World War "It's a long way to Tiperary." In addition, Enrique Cabral and Norberto Garcia performed a duet on violin. Later, Rafael Maluenda, writer and journalist for El Mercurio, gave a brief political comment, which drew smiling so the parallel between the dog of Alcibiades with foxterrier general of President Arturo Alessandri. Maluenda thus became the first political commentator in the history of Chilean broadcasting.
However, this experiment would not have much value without a second step, which gave Helfmann Federico, who, assisted by Enrique Sazie was devoted to sell radio receivers. To do so was a need for a station to carry out daily programs. Sazie rudimentary built a small transmitter with a power of five watts, which, it was thought, would serve for the demonstrations.