In 1926, RCA helped launch NBC — not to inform the public, but to sell radios. More stations meant more content, more content meant more listeners, and more listeners meant more radios in American homes.
It worked. It didn’t just move product — it helped build modern broadcasting, expanded reach, and created something close to a shared national conversation. We might not have modern broadcasting as we know it today if not for RCA’s push to make more money.
That part tends to get lost.
Because nearly a hundred years later, the same move is happening again — only now the product is artificial intelligence.
