The following evening, January 13, 1910, parts of Pagliacci starring Enrico Caruso were broadcast. The first of these was a performance of Acts II and III of Tosca on January 12, 1910, starring Antonio Scotti as Scarpia. The Met's radio broadcast history dates back to 1910, when radio pioneer Lee De Forest transmitted - experimentally, with erratic signal - two live partial performances from the stage of the Met, which were reportedly heard as far away as Newark, New Jersey. The broadcasts are also listenable online via streaming audio and select broadcasts and excerpts are listenable year-round on the 'Met Opera on Demand' service and on the free online service Rhapsody. These countries include Canada, Mexico, 27 European countries, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, China, and Japan. The series is currently broadcast on over 300 stations in the United States, and stations in 40 countries on 5 continents. The Met broadcasts are the longest-running continuous classical music program in radio history, and the series has won several Peabody Awards for excellence in broadcasting. The Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network airs the live performances on Saturday afternoons while the Met is in season, typically beginning the first Saturday in December, and totaling just over 20 weekly performances through early May. They are transmitted live from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. The Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts are a regular series of weekly broadcasts on network radio of full-length opera performances. For the Sirius XM channel, see Metropolitan Opera Radio (Sirius XM).

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