BROADCASTING is 100 years old in the Philippines this year.

Sometime in 1922, an American lady, known as Mrs. Redgrave, did a test broadcast from Nichols Field (what is now known as Villamor Air Base) with a 5-watt transmitter, arguably the very first radio transmission test in Asia. On the same year in the month of June, Henry Herman Sr., a Philippine-American War veteran and owner of the Electrical Supply Co., did test broadcasts from three stations to assess if it would be good for his business.

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