If you’ve ever wondered how radio became – and remains – such a powerful medium in the communications world, the mystery will be solved at 2 p.m. Saturday, February 27 when KHTS station co-owner Carl Goldman presents “The History of Radio Broadcasting” as part of the SCV Historical Society’s Lecture Series.

The lecture had originally been scheduled for Saturday, January 30, but the date has been changed. To tide you over until then, Society President Alan Pollack has written a little teaser, so to speak, on Goldman’s subject…..

“In the early evening hours of November 2, 1920, the history of human communication changed forever when, atop the Westinghouse “K” Building in East Pittsburgh, radio station KDKA began its first broadcast with reports on election returns in the Presidential race between Warren G. Harding and James M. Cox. It was the first radio station in the United States to be granted a limited commercial license….When Guglielmo Marconi first communicated from a radio in his attic to a receiver behind a hillside, he never envisioned the impact his invention would have on society.

“Radio became the first mass communication medium. It entertained, informed and frightened. Whether it was FDR calming a panicked nation with his Fireside Chats, Jack Benny changing how families spent their nights together or Orson Welles creating mass hysteria in 1938 with his fictitious Martian Invasion, “War of the Worlds” radio re-shaped our society.”

The lecture is free and will be held at the Saugus Train Station in Heritage Junction Historic Park, 24101 Newhall Avenue (formerly San Fernando Road) in Old Town Newhall. For information, call 661-254-1275.