Editing History of broadcasting (section)

==== Categories in Australia from 1924 ====
As quickly as July 1924, the Sealed Set system was declared to be unsuccessful and it was replaced by a system of A Class and B Class stations.  There were one or two A Class stations in each major market and these were paid for by a listener's licence fee imposed on all listeners-in. The five former sealed set stations became A Class stations, and they were soon joined by stations in other State capitals.<ref name="Australia, R.R. Walker 1973"/>

[[File:Emil Voigt.jpg|thumb|right|Emil Voigt, founder of 2KY on behalf of the [[Labor Council of New South Wales]]. This photo was taken in earlier days when Voight was a prominent British athlete, and winner of the [[Olympic medal|Gold Medal]] for the five mile race at the [[1908 Summer Olympics]] in London.]]

Amateur broadcasters continued to operate in the [[long wave]] and [[short wave]] bands.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

A national service, the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|Australian Broadcasting Commission]], was formed in July 1932, when the Australian Broadcasting Company's contract expired.<ref name="ReferenceD"/>