Commercial broadcasting
Practice of airing radio and television advertisements for profit / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Commercial radio" redirects here. For the radio broadcasting company in Hong Kong, see Commercial Radio Hong Kong.
"Commercial television" redirects here. For the defunct television station in Hong Kong, see Commercial Television (Hong Kong TV station).
Commercial broadcasting (also called private broadcasting) is the broadcasting of television programs and radio programming by privately owned corporate media, as opposed to state sponsorship, for example. It was the United States' first model of radio (and later television) during the 1920s, in contrast with the public television model during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, which prevailed worldwide, except in the United States, Mexico, and Brazil, until the 1980s.