Editing Commercial broadcasting (section)

{{Short description|Practice of airing radio and television advertisements for profit}}
{{Redirect|Commercial radio|the radio broadcasting company in Hong Kong|Commercial Radio Hong Kong}}
{{Redirect|Commercial television|the defunct television station in Hong Kong|Commercial Television (Hong Kong TV station)}}
'''Commercial broadcasting''' (also called '''private broadcasting''') is the [[broadcasting]] of [[television program]]s and [[radio programming]] by [[privately held company|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 broadcasting|public television]] model during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, which prevailed worldwide, except in the United States, Mexico, and Brazil, until the 1980s.