The
old-time radio era, sometimes referred to as the
Golden Age of Radio, refers to a period of
radio programming in the United States lasting from the proliferation of radio broadcasting in the early 1920s until the 1950s, when television superseded radio as the medium of choice for scripted programming and radio shifted to
playing popular music. During this period, when radio was dominant and filled with a variety of formats and genres, people regularly tuned into their favorite radio programs. According to a 1947
C. E. Hooper survey, 82 out of 100 Americans were found to be radio listeners.