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Although free everything seems like another Internet innovation, it's actually a century-old strategy. King Gillette gave away his safety razor and made a fortune selling the blades. Perhaps you remember something called broadcast television, which was preceded, in the 1920s, by broadcast radio. RCA created the NBC network to sell radios...
...blowup reflects a still-wide chasm between online and broadcast journalism. "This is a journalist who was born on the Web and is used to infusing his reports with his own beliefs," says TIME Digital editor Joshua Quittner. "While that's useful on the Internet, where we gravitate to those who are politically opinionated and even sensationalist, people like Drudge have a harder time surviving in the more limited realm of mass media." So Drudge, who harnessed a new medium to climb from gift shop clerk to columnist read by millions in a matter of years, retreats...
...station cannot, however, announce Harvard sports, or the New York Metropolitan Opera, becayse it doesn't have the rights to broadcast either on the Internet...
Currently, WHRB serves the entire Boston area. The station's offices are located in the basement of Greenough Hall, and the signal is broadcast from downtown Boston...
Three years later, in 1943, the radio station split from the Crimson, changing its name to the Harvard Radio Voice, and in 1951 changed again to its current name, Harvard Radio Broadcasting Company. Still, it broadcast only on campus...