Today in Radio History (Part 4)
Sub-Topics: BBC Radio - Howard Stern Radio Show - Pirate Radio - Radio Broadcaster - Radio DJ
Historical Events
Results 301 - 400 of 537
1946-06-26 - Fred Allen's last radio show, his guest is Jack Benny
1946-06-28 - Permanent radio play-by-play of Cleve Indians games begins
1946-09-29 - "Adventures of Sam Spade" debuts on CBS Radio
1946-11-01 - WABC becomes WCBS radio in NYC
1946-11-01 - WEAF radio changes call letters to WNBC (NYC)
1947-02-10 - Netherlands Radio Union forms
1947-02-19 - CBS radio premiere of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 3"
1947-04-15 - Operations begin at Radio Netherlands World radio
1947-10-20 - Radio rights for the World Series sell for $475,000 for 3 years
1947-10-27 - "You Bet Your Life," with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio
1948-02-06 - 1st radio-controlled airplane flown
1948-03-21 - "Stop the Music" with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio
1948-05-14 - Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast
1948-06-30 - Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs)
1948-10-01 - Radio Denmark begins transmitting
1948-10-21 - Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated (Washington DC)
1949-02-12 - Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio
1949-06-03 - Dragnet is 1st broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles)
1949-07-07 - "Dragnet" premieres on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 & 1967
1949-10-03 - WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta
1950-07-04 - The first broadcast by Radio Free Europe.
1950-09-30 - Radio's "Grand Ole Opry" is broadcasted on TV for 1st time
1950-12-03 - Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast
1951-01-29 - Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million
1951-01-30 - Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio
1951-02-06 - Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into
1951-02-18 - Netherlands Radio School forms
1951-06-22 - Gene Rayburn & Dee Finch show premieres on NBC radio
1951-07-02 - Bob & Ray show premieres on NBC radio
1951-07-02 - Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system
1951-12-31 - 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced
1952-06-30 - "Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV
1953-06-11 - "Amos 'n Andy," TV Comedy, also radio from '29; last aired on CBS
1953-10-13 - Burglar alarm-ultrasonic or radio waves-patented-Samuel Bagno
1954-01-20 - The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
1954-09-08 - Alan Freed leaves Cleveland to NYC for WINS radio
1954-10-18 - WNBC radio changes call letters to WRCA (NYC)
1954-10-18 - Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
1954-12-26 - "The Shadow," airs for last time on radio
1955-03-04 - 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent
1955-06-12 - Monitor (full weekend program) begins on NBC radio network
1955-08-07 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan.
1955-08-19 - WINS radio, announces it will not play "copy" white cover versions of R&B (DJs must play Fats Domino's "Ain't It A Shame," not Pat Boone's)
1956-03-01 - The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
1956-04-16 - 1st solar powered radios go on sale
1956-12-18 - Phil Rizzuto signs as NY Yankee radio-TV announcer
1957-05-01 - Larry King's 1st radio broadcast
1957-05-27 - Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada's first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.
1957-08-05 - WJZ-TV in Baltimore MD begins radio transmissions
1957-09-08 - Pope Pius XII encyclical On motion pictures, radio, TV
1958-03-20 - Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting
1958-03-20 - Greek Clandestine Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission
1958-06-02 - Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio
1958-06-17 - Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy
1958-08-21 - KUT-FM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions
1958-12-19 - 1st radio broadcast from space (Pres Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth & Good Will to Men Everywhere")
1959-03-06 - Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)
1960-04-04 - Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center
1960-05-19 - Alan Freed & eight other DJ accused of taking radio payola
1960-05-19 - DJ Alan Freed is accused of bribery in radio payola scandal
1960-05-23 - WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC)
1960-10-03 - "Flair" (CBS' answer to Monitor) premieres on radio with Dick Van Dyke
1960-10-11 - Radio-TV exec John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Det Tigers
1960-11-25 - "Amos 'n' Andy" made its last broadcast on CBS radio
1960-11-25 - CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr Malone & 2nd Mrs Burton) & cancels 4 other series
1960-11-27 - CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel"
1960-11-28 - CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes
1961-06-18 - CBS radio cancels Gunsmoke
1961-09-04 - Carol Burnette-Richard Hayes Show premieres on CBS radio
1961-12-12 - Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36
1962-05-28 - Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio
1962-06-01 - Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit
1962-08-05 - 1st quasar located by radio
1962-10-01 - US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' (91m) radio telescope
1962-10-28 - Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated
1962-11-01 - USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars
1963-08-08 - Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie," radio stations label it obscene
1963-09-28 - Murray The K, a NY DJ plays "She Loves You" on the radio
1963-12-31 - Dear Abby show premieres on CBS radio (runs 11 years)
1964-08-13 - 1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire
1964-10-01 - 1st official broadcast of Trans World Radio on Bonaire
1964-11-16 - Radio CJCX Sydney Nova Scotia (Canada) starts shortwave transmission
1964-12-15 - American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded
1965-01-27 - 1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite
1965-04-19 - 1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in NYC) begins operating
1965-05-03 - Don Steele, begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH (LA Calif)
1965-11-19 - ABC radio begins weekly "Vietnam Update" report
1965-12-22 - Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up
1966-02-05 - BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island
1966-05-01 - Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting
1966-06-01 - Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW
1966-08-02 - Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting
1966-08-15 - Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission
1966-11-30 - Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland
1966-12-01 - Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Md to Boulder, Colo
1967-04-07 - Tom Donahue, SF dj begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM)
1967-04-17 - Shortwave Radio NY Worldwide goes back on the air after a week off
1967-07-01 - BBC starts their World Radio Club
1967-08-14 - Radio Scotland & Radio Swinging Holland go off the air
1967-08-18 - WCBS radio in NYC goes all-news
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