many people believe that Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio in 1896. Others believe Nikola Tesla invented it three years earlier. But everyone agrees that the radio was one of the most important inventions of all time The first radio broadcast in history was in Massachusetts USA, on December 24, 1906, and listeners heard the world's first radio news broadcast in 1920 from a radio station in the USA. There are now thousands of radio stations around the world, from Kenya to Brazil and even at the South Pole Millions of people listen to the radio every day at home, at work or while they're driving. Radios are more popular than TVs because they cost less to buy and you can take them with you wherever you go.