Today in Radio History (Part 3)
Sub-Topics: BBC Radio - Howard Stern Radio Show - Pirate Radio - Radio Broadcaster - Radio DJ
Historical Events
Results 201 - 300 of 537
1932-10-19 - Henry Ford gives his 1st radio speech
1932-10-23 - "Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio
1932-11-07 - 1st broadcast of "Buck Rogers in the 25th century" on CBS-radio
1932-11-28 - Groucho Marx performed on radio for 1st time
1932-12-02 - "Adv of Charlie Chan" 1st heard on NBC-Blue radio network
1932-12-27 - Radio City Music Hall opens (NYC)
1933-01-30 - "Lone Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio
1933-03-02 - "King Kong," premieres at Radio City Music Hall & RKO Roxy NYC
1933-03-18 - Radio Clube de Mocambique's, 1st radio transmission
1933-04-22 - Dutch govt forbids leftwing radio address
1933-04-27 - Karl Jansky reports reception of cosmic radio signal in Wash DC
1933-07-10 - 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY
1933-07-25 - 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington
1933-12-26 - FM radio is patented.
1934-02-22 - "It Happened One Night," opens at NY's Radio City Music Hall
1934-03-31 - Netherlands Indies BC Ltd begins radio transmission (Indonesia)
1934-10-14 - "Lux Radio Theatre" premieres
1934-10-17 - "The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio
1935-01-04 - Bob Hope 1st heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue"
1935-02-26 - RADAR-Radio Detection & Ranging 1st demonstrated (Robert Watson-Watt)
1935-03-20 - "Your Hit Parade" made its debut on radio
1935-03-24 - Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network
1935-04-01 - 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY
1935-04-12 - "Your Hit Parade," debuts on radio
1935-04-16 - 1st radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly"
1935-07-05 - 1st "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcast
1935-07-20 - 1st broadcast of "Gang Busters" on NBC-radio
1936-01-31 - "Green Hornet" radio show is 1st heard on WXYZ Radio in Detroit
1936-02-04 - 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E)
1936-03-26 - 1st parliamentary debate on NZ radio
1936-06-01 - "Lux Radio Theater" moved from NYC to Hollywood
1936-06-12 - 1st 50 KW US radio station (Pittsburgh Pa)
1936-07-01 - AVRO radio broadcast studios in Hilversum opens
1936-09-28 - Bachelor's Children debuts on CBS radio (at 9:45 am)
1936-09-29 - Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign
1936-10-11 - "Professor Quiz," 1st radio quiz show premieres
1936-11-17 - Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy become overnight success on radio
1936-12-24 - 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca
1937-01-25 - 1st broadcast of "Guiding Light" on NBC radio
1937-01-25 - Soap Opera "Guiding Light" premieres on radio
1937-03-01 - Gov Wouters innaugrates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles
1937-03-14 - Battle of the Century: Fred Allen & Jack Benny meet on radio
1937-08-18 - 1st FM radio construction permit issued (W1X0J (WGTR) in Boston MA)
1937-11-13 - NBC forms 1st full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
1937-12-25 - Arturo Toscanini conducts 1st Symphony of the Air over NBC Radio
1937-12-27 - Mae West performs Adam & Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio
1938-03-13 - World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
1938-03-26 - NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony
1938-05-17 - Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network
1938-07-26 - 1st radio broadcast of "Young Widder Brown" on NBC
1938-07-31 - NY Yanks suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person in Chicago over head with a club"
1938-09-28 - Dutch Premier Colijn sends radio message "No war coming"
1938-11-20 - 1st documented anti-semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin)
1938-12-07 - W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St Louis Post-Dispatch by radio
1939-08-06 - 1st broadcast of "Dinah Shore Show" on NBC-radio
1939-08-31 - Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz
1939-09-07 - Radio NY Worldwide-WRUL begins radio transmission
1939-09-28 - Final broadcast of The Fleischmann Hour was heard on radio
1939-12-20 - Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service
1940-01-05 - FCC hears 1st transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal
1940-01-05 - FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.
1940-01-22 - 1st radio broadcast of "Road to Happiness" on CBS
1940-03-23 - 1st radio broadcast of "Truth or Consequences" on CBS
1940-04-21 - 1st $64 Question, "Take It or Leave It," on CBS Radio
1940-04-29 - 1st radio broadcast of "Young Dr Malone" on CBS
1940-06-28 - "Quiz Kids?" premieres on radio
1940-07-28 - Radio Orange, London begins
1940-09-29 - "Double or Nothing," a radio quiz show, 1st heard on Mutual Radio Net
1940-12-08 - 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
1941-02-08 - NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins nazi propaganda on Dutch radio
1941-03-01 - 1st US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tenn
1941-03-29 - WPAT radio in NJ begins broadcasting (country music format)
1941-05-10 - Queen Wilhelmina on Radio Orange warns against treason
1941-05-16 - 1st US/radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"
1941-06-09 - Archbishop De Young bans priest cooperation on Rijks radio
1941-11-29 - Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Jap war fleet
1942-02-05 - "Woman of the Year," starring Hepburn & Tracy opens at Radio City
1942-02-26 - Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies
1942-02-27 - J S Hey discovers radio emissions from Sun
1942-05-01 - Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"
1942-09-18 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service
1942-11-05 - Pro-British Clandestine Radio Diego Suarez's final transmission
1943-02-05 - Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission
1943-02-06 - Singer Frank Sinatra debuts on radio's "Your Hit Parade"
1943-03-25 - Jimmy Durante & Garry Moore premiere on radio
1943-03-27 - Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio
1943-05-13 - German occupiers confiscate all radios
1943-05-31 - "Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio
1943-10-24 - Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting
1944-08-13 - Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio
1944-10-03 - 1st broadcast of Radio Herrijzend Netherland
1944-10-08 - "Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" debut on CBS radio
1945-01-02 - Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion
1945-04-30 - "Arthur Godfrey Time" begins a 27 year run on CBS radio
1945-05-01 - Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II
1945-05-05 - Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated
1945-06-18 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) Brit radio traitor charged with treason
1945-08-15 - Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually
1945-10-05 - "Meet the Press" premieres on radio
1945-11-06 - HUAC begins investigation of 7 radio commentators
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