Sports Radio Broadcasts Did you know that radio waves travel at 189,000 miles per second? Throughout its long career, radio has always had a close relationship with sport. Today, sports radio continues to be an important media in athletic culture. Even with the giant that is sports itself today, sports radio is still one of the most popular, reliable, and convenient ways to listen to live games, listen to scores, or even listen to sports talk shows. This article will cover three big topics that affect sports radio and simply radio itself. These topics cover the history of radio, the evolution of radio, and last but not least, the future of radio. Radio was the first invention to enable mass communication in different parts of the world. It allowed the transfer of information over thousands of kilometers. The development of radio began in 1893 with Nikolai Tesla's demonstration of wireless radio communication in St. Louis, Missouri. Nikolai Tesla's work laid the foundation for later scientists who worked to perfect the radio we now use in our daily lives. The man most associated with the invention of the radio is an Italian named Guglielmo Marconi, who was granted the official patent for the radio by the British government in 1986. The reason Marconi is most known for inventing the radio is because he was the first to broadcast a broadcast, which he did in 1899, and it was a mile long. Thanks to these great inventors and their brilliant minds we can now listen to sport almost everywhere in the world, thanks to the radio. Sports radio has the richest history of all sports media and is also the oldest in that category. Sports radio has had many memorable moments throughout its long career, but... middle of paper... the biggest advancement in radio is probably due to the creation of HD radio because it's one of the best things to happen to radio ever since FM stereo was made and FM stereo has been a huge success. HD Radio gives us amazing sound quality and many more programming options than ever before (National….). All of these things listed above have contributed to the evolution of radio and without them the radio we know today wouldn't be as good, but behind the scenes there is a committee that has really helped the wheels turn on almost all of the things listed above , and that committee is the National Radio Systems Committee or NRSC. The sole purpose of the NRSC is to study and make recommendations for technical standards that have anything to do with radio broadcasting and the reception of radio broadcast signals (National….). Over the course of his long life, the