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2009 Paul Harvey, radio broadcaster and news commentator, 'The Rest of the Story'

2005 Radio Canada International celebrates its 60th anniversary

2004 Alistair Cooke, radio commentator/author, Masterpiece Theater, dies at 95

2002 Barry Took, comedian, writer, television presenter on BBC program Points of View and BBC Radio 4 program The News Quiz, wrote comedy with Mary Feldman

2000 Robert Trout, radio Methuselah, ", coined the term ""fireside chat"" to describe FDR's informal speeches, ", dies at 91

1999 Jean Shepherd, writer/radio artist, ", In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, ", dies at 78

1998 Johnny Roventini, pitchman, Phillip Morris radio and TV ads, dies at 88

1998 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charleston South Carolina on WAVF 96.1 FM

1998 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Indianapolis, Indiana on WNAP 93.1 FM

1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Davenport, Iowa on KORB 93.5 FM

1997 Arthur Tracy, radio personality (Street Singer), dies at 98

1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Louisville, Kentucky on WTFX 100.5 FM

1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Montreal, Canada on CHOM 97.7 FM

1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toronto, Canada on CILQ 107.1 FM

1997 Don Steele, LA radio personality (KRTH), dies of cancer at 61

1997 Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas, Texas

1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Minneapolis/St. Paul on WRQC 100.3 FM

1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charlotte North Carolina on WXRC 95.7 FM

1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft. Myers, Florida on WRXK 96.1 FM

1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fayetteville, North Carolina on WRCQ 103.5 FM

1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Detroit, Michigan on WKRK 97.1 FM

1997 Godfrey Baseley, British radio executive, dies at 92

1997 Dennis Main Wilson, TV and radio producer, dies at 72

1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in New Orleans, Louisiana on KKND 106.7 FM

1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Columbus, Ohio on WBZX 99.7 FM

1996 Leon Lewis, U.S. radio talk show host (WMCA, 1970-80), dies at 81

1996 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on WZMT 97.9 FM

1996 Howard Stern radio show premieres in West Palm Beach, Florida on WCLB 95.5 FM

1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Panama City, Florida on WTBB 97.7 FM

1996 Hugo Gryn, rabbi, broadcaster, appeared on BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day, leading voice in interfaith dialogue, dies at 66

1996 Anne Schumacher Hummert, radio pioneer, dies at 91

1996 Clay Jones, horticulturalist, broadcaster, Chairman of the program Gardener's Question Time on BBC Radio 4, voted tenth alongside Carol Klein as the nation's all-time favorite gardener, dies at 72

1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Syracuse New York on WAQX 95.7 FM

1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toledo, Ohio on WBUZ 106.5 FM

1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Memphis, Tennessee on WMFS 92.9 FM

1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Hartford, Connecticut on WCCC 106.9 FM

1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Grand Rapids, Michigan on WKLQ 94.5 FM

1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fresno, California on KFRR 104.1 FM

1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Reno, Nevada on KRZQ 96.5 FM

1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Austin, Texas on KJFK 98.9 FM

1996 Radio Canada International's final shortwave broadcast

1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in York, Pennsylvania on WQXA 105.7 FM

1996 WPAT FM New York City radio station switches to English-Spanish format

1995 CBC announces Radio Canada International service to end on March 31

1995 Benny Lee, entertainer, comedy actor, singer, appeared in radio comedy programs, including It's a Square World, appeared in episodes of Are You Being Served?, and the television series Minder, dies at 84

1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on WXDX 105.9 FM

1995 Spanish Broadcasting System buys New York radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M

1995 Infinity Radio agrees to voluntarily pay $1.7 million to U.S. Treasury

1995 Pierre Schaeffer, composer/radio innovator, dies at 85

1995 David Warrilow, actor (Simon, Radio Days, Barton Fink), dies at 60

1995 Ronald Farrow, radio producer/priest, dies at 49

1995 Cleo Brown, pianist, performed on National Public Radio, dies at 91

1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago, Illinois on WCKG 105.9 FM

1995 New York City agrees to sell it's 2 owned radio stations (WNew York City AM and FM)

1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Phoenix, Arizona on KEDJ 106.3/100.3 FM

1994 Herman H Felderhof, radio-announcer/head (NRU/NOS Radio), dies at 83

1994 Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide

1994 Jessie Kesson, author, novelist, radio producer, and playwright, dies at 77

1994 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft. Lauderdale / Miami, Florida on WBGG 105.9 FM

1994 Henk Terlingen, radio/TV-host (Sport in Image), dies at 52

1994 Howard Stern begins 30-minute (Radio) TV show on E! cable network

1994 Larry King ended his radio show

1994 Radio conservative Rush Limbaugh (43) weds Marta Fitzgerald (35)

1994 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Orlando, Florida on WTKS 104.1 FM

1994 Radio personality Rush Limbaugh weds wife #3, Marta Fitzgerald

1994 Luther Diamond, radio Personality, dies at 89

1994 Olan Soule, radio voice (Super Friends), dies of lung cancer at 83

1993 Jim McLaughlin, Buffalo radio newsman (WKBW), dies at 59

1993 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on WYAV 104.1 FM

1993 Atlantic Radio (20 radio stations) becomes American Radio Systems

1993 Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcasting in El Paso, Texas

1993 New York City radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes for 2nd time

1993 New York City radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes

1993 Bob Fitzsimmons, New York radio DJ (WNEW AM/WABC AM/WHN AM), dies at 53

1993 Carleton Morse, radio dramatist (One Man's Family), dies at 91

1993 Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney

1993 Johan Bodegraven, radio host (Purses Open, Dikes Closed), dies at 78

1993 Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester, New York

1993 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Rochester, New York on WNVE 95.1 FM

1993 Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester, New York on WRQI

1993 Ashley Jade Stern, daughter of radio personality Howard Stern

1993 Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Buffalo, New York on WKBW

1992 WNEW AM radio on 1130 in New York City ends transmitting after 58 years

1992 WQEW-AM radio replaces WQXR on 1560 in New York City

1992 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Las Vegas, Nevada on KXTE 107.5 FM

1992 Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcast in Las Vegas Nevada on KFBI

1992 New York Giants announce they will quit WNEW Radio after 32 years for WOR

1992 New York Jets announce they are moving from WABC to WFAN radio

1992 Howard Stern radio show begins broadcasting on WLUP-AM, Chicago, Illinois

1992 Arecibo radio telescope begins Microwave search for occupied planets

1992 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Albany, New York on WQBK 103.5 and 103.9 FM

1992 Howard Stern Radio Show begins broadcasting in Dallas, Texas on KGEL-FM 97.1

1992 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland, Ohio on WNCX 98.5 FM

1992 Gerard Sonder, Dutch radio host (AVRO), dies

1992 Sjoerd de Free, reporter (Radio Herrijzend Netherland), dies

1992 Elizabeth Lennox, radio singer, dies of heart seizure at 98

1992 Britain Radio Authority licenses Virgin and TV-AM radio licenses

1992 "Late Night's 10th Anniversary Show At Radio City Music Hall" on NBC

1991 News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio KFI-AM personally attacked her by discuss her having a disformed baby

1991 Howard Stern adds Baltimore to his radio network on WJFK-AM

1991 Andre Baruch, Radio/TV announcer dies at 83

1991 Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles)

1991 Dwight Weist, Radio actor/film narrator (Radio Days), dies at 81

1991 Herman Niels, Flemish radio director, dies

1991 New York City's Museum of Broadcasting becomes "Museum of Radio and Television"

1991 Jack McCoy, Radio/TV personality, dies at 72

1990 KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions

1990 KUSW, Salt Lake City Utah, final shortwave radio transmissions

1990 Radio stations around world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon

1990 Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by Doors

1990 Loretta Tupper, radio/TV entertainer, dies of cancer at 84

1990 Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion

1990 8 KS and OK radio stations boycott k d lang, due to her anti-meat ad

1990 World's largest bunny hop at Radio City Music Hall in New York City

1989 Guus Weitzel, Dutch radio host, dies at 85

1989 Conrad Beck, composer, studied with Jacques Ibert, head of Radio Basel music department for 30 years, dies at 88

1989 Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander

1989 "Rambling with Gambling" 20,000th radio program on WOR-AM (New York City)

1989 At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 2nd silence, honoring radio

1989 Earl Nightingale, author, motivational speaker, his radio program, 'Our Changing World', most highly syndicated radio program ever, recorded over 7,000 radio programs, dies

1989 Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host, dies at 64

1988 Bulgaria stops jamming Radio Free Europe after more than 3 decades

1988 Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 yrs

1988 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV collapses

1988 Mexican radio station erronously reports Mike Tyson dies in car crash

1988 WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 and WUKQ begins on 1050 at 5:30 PM (New York City radio)

1988 Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer

1988 WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive

1988 New York City WABC-AM becomes flagship radio station of New Jersey Devils

1988 WABC officially becomes the New Jersey Devils new home radio

1987 New York City radio station WFAN-AM becomes 1st 24 hour all sports radio

1987 Arch Oboler, radio writer (Lights Out), dies at 77

1987 Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack

1986 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on WYSP 94.1 FM

1986 Howard Stern radio show returns to New York City morning radio on WXRK 92.3 FM

1985 Howard Stern radio show returns to New York City WXRK 92.3 FM-afternoons

1985 U.S. began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti

1985 Nand Baert, Belgian radio/tv-host, dies at 53

1984 During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"

1983 Radio Shack announces Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip)

1983 Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2)

1983 Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air

1982 CBS Mystery Theater final episode on radio after 8 years

1982 NBC radio cancels almost all of its network daily features

1982 Freeman "Amos" Gosden, U.S. radio actor (Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 83

1982 Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building

1982 FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo

1982 ABC national music radio network scheduled premiere (never happened)

1982 ABC's All Talk radio network expands to 22 stations

1982 WABC joins ABC's All Talk radio network

1982 ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)

1982 President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts

1982 CBS radio begins youth oriented broadcast Radio Radio

1982 "Night of 100 Stars" takes place at New York's Radio City Music Hall

1982 ABC Direction Network (57 affiliates) and ABC Rock Network (40 affiliates) become the 5th and 6th ABC radio network

1981 1st live radio drama in 25 years (Halloween Story on NBC)

1981 Enterprise Radio (all sports) resigns air

1981 RKO radio network is 1st to offer 2 separate overnight services

1981 RKO radio network premieres America Overnight talk show

1981 Radio Shack 3rd release of Model III TRSDOS 1.3

1981 Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes

1981 Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3

1981 Elijah Wood, born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, actor, Radio Flyer, Good Son

1980 Mutaual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater

1980 Very Large Array radio telescope network dedicated

1980 Norman Shelley, English radio actor (Churchill's Speech), dies at 77

1980 Thomas Ian Nicholas, actor, Radio Flyer, Rookie of the Year

1980 1st solar-powered coast-to-coast two-way radio conversation

1980 Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System

1980 "1940's Radio Hour" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 105 performances

1979 "1940's Radio Hour" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 105 performances

1979 RKO radio network begins operation

1979 Radio City Music Hall (New York City) reopens

1979 Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80

1979 Radio's 1st rock network "Source" premieres

1979 Radio Shack releases TRSDOS 2.3

1979 Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting

1979 Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80

1979 Sears Radio Theater premieres on CBS

1978 Blanche Calloway, U.S. singer/dancer/radio hostess, dies at 76

1978 President Carter answers caller questions on National Public Radio

1978 Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand New York radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words"

1978 U.S. House of Representatives allows live radio coverage

1978 Larry King moves his radio show from Miami to Washington D.C.

1978 Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio

1977 Radio Shack issues a press release introducing TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered

1977 NBC News and Information Service (24 hour news) ends on radio

1977 General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio

1977 Radio Shack officially begins creating TRS-80 computer

1976 Frankie Darro, actor (Radio Ranch, Valley of Wanted Men), dies at 58

1976 Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity

1976 Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter

1975 1st broadcast of radio Hilversum IV (classic music)

1975 NBC News and Information Service, a 24 hour news service, premieres on radio

1975 House of Commons is broadcast live by radio for 1st time

1974 Dear Abby show ends run on CBS radio after 11 years

1974 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away

1974 World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed

1974 "CBS Mystery Theater," premieres on radio

1974 NBC radio begins on the hour news 24 hours a day (following CBS lead)

1973 The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR and moves station from New York City to Scituate Mass

1973 Nation Black Network begins operation on radio

1973 Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder AVRO, dies at 84

1973 NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit

1973 CBS radio begins on hour news 24 hours a day

1972 Radio's Mutual Black Network premieres

1972 "Arthur Godfrey Time" ends a 27 year run on radio

1971 CBS radio cancels Saturday morning band concerts

1971 Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting

1971 Quintis "Chico" Ristie, Suriname radio host

1971 Radio Nordsee International's ship bombed

1971 All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations

1971 Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner"

1971 Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM

1971 National Emergency Center erroneously orders U.S. radio and TV stations to go off the air. Mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes

1970 Ralph W. Sockman, Protestant pastor, author, successful radio show, National Radio Pulpit, considered by Time magazine as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S., dies at age 80

1970 Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on LA radio

1970 Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (Calif)

1969 Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio and TV

1969 Mica Paris, born in South London, England, born Michelle Wallen, rocker, singer, actress, radio and television presenter, known for 1988 debut platinum-selling album 'So Good'

1969 BBC Radio serial "Dales" 5,400th and last episode

1969 Last radio broadcast of "Mrs Dale's Diary" on BBS

1968 After 5 years Russia once again jams Voice of America radio

1968 Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia at 12:50 AM announces a soviet led invasion

1968 Radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched (o 450 m)

1968 Ritchie Woodhall, born in Woodside, Telford, England, boxer, athlete, television and radio broadcaster, bronze medal winer, 1988 Seoul Olympics, 1990 Gold Commonwealth Games

1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA

1968 Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting

1968 Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission

1968 ABC radio splits into 4 networks (Info, Entertainment, Contemp and FM)

1967 The 1st pulsating radio source (pulsar) detected

1967 1st local British radio station begins broadcasting (Radio Leicester)

1967 CBS radio cancels "House Party"

1967 BBC starts their own popular music radio station

1967 Radio Malta stops testing

1967 WCBS radio in New York City goes all-news

1967 Radio Scotland and Radio Swinging Holland go off the air

1967 Max Branch, music/radio commentator, dies at 75

1967 Max Tak, Dutch violinist and radio commentator, dies at 75

1967 BBC starts their World Radio Club

1967 Shortwave Radio New York Worldwide goes back on the air after a week off

1967 Shortwave broadcaster Radio New York Worldwide's transmitter burns down

1967 Tom Donahue, San Francisco dj begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM)

1966 Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Md to Boulder, Colorado

1966 Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland

1966 Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission

1966 Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting

1966 Shortwave station Radio New York Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW

1966 Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting

1966 BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island

1965 Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up

1965 ABC radio begins weekly "Vietnam Update" report

1965 1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in New York City) begins operating

1965 1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite

1964 American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded

1964 Radio CJCX Sydney Nova Scotia (Canada) starts shortwave transmission

1964 1st official broadcast of Trans World Radio on Bonaire

1964 1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire

1963 Dear Abby show premieres on CBS radio (runs 11 years)

1963 Murray The K, a New York DJ plays "She Loves You" on the radio

1963 Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie," radio stations label it obscene

1963 1st transmission of "Pop Go the Beatles" on BBC radio

1963 Dave Koz, born in Encino, California, saxophonist, compared to David Sanborn, musician, radio host, played on CBS' The Pat Sajak Show, host of Dave Koz Morning Show with Pat Prescott, on a smooth jazz station in Los Angeles

1962 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars

1962 Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated

1962 U.S. National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' (91m) radio telescope

1962 1st quasar located by radio

1962 Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit

1962 Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio

1962 Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio

1961 Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36

1961 Carol Burnette-Richard Hayes Show premieres on CBS radio

1961 CBS radio cancels "Gunsmoke"

1961 Marian Jordan, radio comedienne (Fibber McGee and Molly), dies at 62

1961 Ane-Marie Sanches, newscaster, Suriname TV/Radio

1960 CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes

1960 CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel"

1960 "Amos 'n' Andy" made its last broadcast on CBS radio

1960 CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr. Malone and 2nd Mrs. Burton) and cancels 4 other series

1960 Radio - TV executive John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Detroit Tigers

1960 "Flair" (CBS' answer to Monitor) premieres on radio with Dick Van Dyke

1960 Ian Hislop, born in Mumbles, Wales, writer, editor, Private Eye magazine, broadcaster, radio, television, team captain on BBC's 'Have I Got News for You'

1960 WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (New York City)

1960 Alan Freed and eight other DJ accused of taking radio payola

1960 Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center

1960 Bolik Dahan, Suriname singer/radio host, Radio KBC

1960 Lionel Cartwright, Ohio, country vocalist, I Watched it on the Radio

1959 Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)

1958 1st radio broadcast from space (President Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men Everywhere")

1958 KUT-FM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions

1958 Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy

1958 Alan Freed joins WABC (New York City) radio

1958 Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting

1958 Greek Clandestine Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission

1957 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting

1957 Pope Pius XII encyclical On motion pictures, radio, TV

1957 WJZ-TV in Baltimore MD begins radio transmissions

1957 Larry King's 1st radio broadcast

1956 Charly McClain, born in Jackson, Tennessee, country singer, Radio Heart

1956 Fred Allen, comedian (Fred Allen Radio Show), dies at 61

1955 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)

1955 Tony Snow, born in Kentucky, political commentator, columnist, radio, television news anchor, White House Press Secretary

1955 Mike Smith, born in Britain, British DJ, radio presenter, racing car driver, pilot, businessman, Breakfast Show Presenter of BBC Radio One 1986 - 1988, used on-air nickname 'Smithy'

1955 Janice Long, British radio host, Crash FM

1955 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent

1954 "The Shadow," airs for last time on radio

1954 WNBC radio changes call letters to WRCA (New York City)

1954 Tom Blomberg, Dutch radio host/producer, Evening Rush Hour

1954 Alan Freed leaves Cleveland to New York City for WINS radio

1954 Alison Stern, wife of radio personality Howard Stern, Private Parts

1954 Curtis Sliwa, founder, Guardian Angels, radio personality, WABC

1954 Edwin H Armstrong, U.S. radio inventor (FM), commits suicide at 63

1954 Howard Stern, born in Roosevelt, New York, Radio's Bad Boy

1953 Roy Ristie, Suriname/Netherlands radio host, Apintie, Kankantrie

1953 Burglar alarm-ultrasonic or radio waves-patented-Samuel Bagno

1953 "Amos 'n Andy," TV Comedy, also radio from '29; last aired on CBS

1953 Eric Bogosian, born in Woburn, Massachusetts, actor, Talk Radio

1953 Judi Spiers, born in Britain, Judith Marilyn Spiers, British radio and television presenter, hosted Mr TSW and Miss TSW local beauty contests for new south-west station TSW, appeared in six editions of daytime chat show, presented on Open Air, a BBC1 access television program, in 1986, and Pebble Mill program 1992- 1995, presenter, BBC Radio Devon since 2005

1952 Albert van Raalte, conductor, Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, dies at 62

1952 Maria Matos, Portuguese actress (Menina da Radio), dies at 61

1952 Robin Quivers, radio/TV personality, Howard Stern's sidekick

1952 Dominic Muldowney, born in Southampton, England, composer, created television, film scores for Loose Connections, King Lear, radio work, theater music, created large-scale oboe concerto, versatile has created music for David Bowie, Royal Academy of Music teacher

1952 "Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV

1951 Richard Skinner, born in Portsmouth, England, British DJ, radio and television broadcaster, lead presenter on flagship programs 'Top of the Pops', 'Top 40 Show', 'Whistle Test'

1951 Bob and Ray show premieres on NBC radio

1951 Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system

1951 Gene Rayburn and Dee Finch show premieres on NBC radio

1951 Rick Dees, radio disc jock, KIIS LA

1951 Nicholas Kenyon, controller, BBC Radio 3

1951 Netherlands Radio School forms

1951 Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio

1951 Rush Limbaugh, born in Girardeau, Missouri, radio personality

1950 Jan Rietman, Dutch radio/TV host

1950 Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast

1950 Radio's "Grand Ole Opry" is broadcasted on TV for 1st time

1950 Doug Tract, born in Bronx, New York, radio DJ, Greaseman

1950 David Jensen, born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, David 'Kid' Jensen, popular British radio DJ, played progressive music, hosted BBC pop network, Radio 1, Top of the Pops presenter, interviewed Duran Duran, promoted The Police before they were commercially successful

1950 Karl G Jansky, Czechoslovakian discoverer of cosmic radio sources, dies at 44

1949 WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta

1949 BBC radio begins broadcasting

1949 "Dragnet" premieres on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 and 1967

1949 Dragnet is 1st broadcast on radio, KFI in Los Angeles

1949 Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio

1948 Donna Summer, Boston, singer, Love to Love You Baby, On the Radio

1948 Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated (Washington D.C.)

1948 Radio Denmark begins transmitting

1948 Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced, Bell Labs

1948 Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast

1948 "Stop the Music" with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio

1947 Simon Bates, born in Birmingham, English, UK disc jockey, worked at BBC Radio 1 1976 - 1993, and Classic FM

1947 Ursula Krechel, born in Trier, Germany, writer, poet, radio dramatist, winner, Joseph-Breitbach-Preis 2009, works include, 'Der Ubergriff'

1947 "You Bet Your Life," with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio

1947 Radio rights for the World Series sell for $475,000 for 3 years

1947 Operations begin at Radio Netherlands World radio

1947 CBS radio premiere of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 3"

1947 Netherlands Radio Union forms

1946 Patti Smith, born in Chicago, Illinois, rock vocalist, Radio Ethiopia

1946 Hans Hoekman, Dutch radio play actor

1946 Herman de Man, Salomon H Hamburger, author/Radio Orange, dies

1946 WABC becomes WCBS radio in New York City

1946 WEAF radio changes call letters to WNBC (New York City)

1946 "Adventures of Sam Spade" debuts on CBS Radio

1946 Felix Meurders, Dutch radio host

1946 Marga van Praag, Dutch radio hostess

1946 Permanent radio play-by-play of Cleveland Indians games begins

1946 Fred Allen's last radio show, his guest is Jack Benny

1946 Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour), dies at 71

1946 Ronald Farrow, radio producer and priest

1945 HUAC begins investigation of 7 radio commentators

1945 "Meet the Press" premieres on radio

1945 Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually

1945 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) British radio traitor charged with treason

1945 Dave Lee Travis, born in Derbyshire, England, radio presenter, stage name DLT, hosted shows on Garrison Radio, BBC Radio 1, Magic Network, DAB Digital Radio

1945 Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated

1945 Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II

1945 "Arthur Godfrey Time" begins a 27 year run on CBS radio

1945 Clandestine Radio 1212, used to hoax Nazi Germany's final transmission

1945 Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops

1945 Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion

1944 Joop Brouwer de Koning, youngest Dutch radio operator, executed at 25

1944 "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debut on CBS radio

1944 1st broadcast of Radio Herrijzend Netherland

1944 Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio

1944 Judith A Bosch, Dutch radio/TV-hostess, Tweekamp, Zeskamp

1944 John Heard, actor, Pelican Brief, CHUD, Radio Flyer, Big

1944 Hendrik W van Loon, Netherlands/U.S. radio commentator/writer, dies at 62

1943 Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting

1943 "Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio

1943 Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio

1943 Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore premiere on radio

1943 Singer Frank Sinatra debuts on radio's "Your Hit Parade"

1943 Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission

1943 Alexander Woollcott, critic, dies of a heart attack on radio, at 56

1942 Pro-British Clandestine Radio Diego Suarez's final transmission

1942 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service

1942 Garrison Keillor, born in Minnesota, PBS radio personality, Prairie Home Companion

1942 Pallo Jordan, South African ANC member/heads, Radio Freedom

1942 Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"

1942 J. S. Hey discovers radio emissions from Sun

1942 Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies

1942 "Woman of the Year," starring Hepburn and Tracy opens at Radio City

1941 Dan Hicks, born in Little Rock, Arkansas, singer, songwriter, performed with dance bands, performed on Time Out For Teens radio program, part of San Francisco's folk music scene

1941 Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Japanese war fleet

1941 Daniel Pinkwater, born in Memphis, Tennessee, author, children's books, critic, commentator, National Public Radio, Weekend Edition Saturday

1941 Henk Terlingen, Dutch radio/TV-host, Paul Meier Show

1941 Archbishop De Young bans priest cooperation on Rijks radio

1941 1st U.S. radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"

1941 Queen Wilhelmina on Radio Orange warns against treason

1941 Ed Stewart, born in Exmouth, Devon, England, 'Stewpot', radio broadcaster

1941 WPAT radio in New Jersey begins broadcasting (country music format)

1941 1st U.S. commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tennessee

1941 NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins nazi propaganda on Dutch radio

1940 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0

1940 "Double or Nothing," a radio quiz show, 1st heard on Mutual Radio Net

1940 Radio Orange, London begins

1940 Don Imus, radio disc jockey, WNBC

1940 "Quiz Kids?" premieres on radio

1940 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio

1940 1st radio broadcast of "Young Dr. Malone" on CBS

1940 1st $64 Question, "Take It or Leave It," on CBS Radio

1940 1st radio broadcast of "Truth or Consequences" on CBS

1940 1st radio broadcast of "Road to Happiness" on CBS

1940 FCC hears 1st transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal

1939 Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service

1939 Final broadcast of The Fleischmann Hour was heard on radio

1939 Lord Haw-Haw becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin

1939 Radio New York Worldwide-WRUL begins radio transmission

1939 Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz

1938 W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St. Louis Post-Dispatch by radio

1938 1st documented anti-semitic remarks over U.S. radio (by Father Coughlin)

1938 Dutch Premier Colijn sends radio message "No war coming"

1938 L H Perquin, Dutch radio announcer, dies at 73

1938 New York Yankees suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person in Chicago over head with a club"

1938 1st radio broadcast of "Young Widder Brown" on NBC

1938 Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network

1938 NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony

1938 Marcel P A van Dam, Dutch politician/CEO, VARA Radio/TV

1937 Mae West performs Adam and Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio

1937 Arturo Toscanini conducts 1st Symphony of the Air over NBC Radio

1937 NBC forms 1st full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio

1937 1st FM radio construction permit issued (W1X0J (WGTR) in Boston MA)

1937 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian engineer/marquis (radio, Nobel 1909), dies

1937 Battle of the Century: Fred Allen and Jack Benny meet on radio

1937 Governer Wouters inaugurates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles

1937 Paul Bailey, born in England, novelist, George Orewell prize-winner, lecturer at North Dakota State University, writer in residence, Kingston University, wrote At The Jerusalem, radio and television plays, and non-fiction books

1937 1st broadcast of Soap Opera "Guiding Light" on NBC radio

1936 Hans Zender, born in Wiesbaden, Germany, composer, conductor, music professor, Conductor in Chief of the Chamber Orchestra of Radio Netherlands in Hilversum, Southwest German Radio guest conductor

1936 Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy become overnight success on radio

1936 "Professor Quiz," 1st radio quiz show premieres

1936 Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign

1936 Bachelor's Children debuts on CBS radio (at 9:45 am)

1936 AVRO radio broadcast studios in Hilversum opens

1936 1st 50 KW U.S. radio station, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1936 "Lux Radio Theater" moved from New York City to Hollywood

1936 Tom Snyder, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, radio, television, news anchor, famous for 'The Late Late Show'

1936 1st parliamentary debate on New Zealand radio

1936 "Green Hornet" radio show is 1st heard on WXYZ Radio in Detroit

1935 Charles Shere, born in Berkeley, California, composer, music critic, Music Director for radio KPFA, Berkeley, wrote book, 'How I Saw Duchamp'

1935 Charles Shere, composer, music critic, Music Director for radio KPFA, Berkeley, wrote book, 'How I Saw Duchamp', dies

1935 1st "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcast

1935 1st radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee and Molly"

1935 "Your Hit Parade," debuts on radio

1935 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, New York

1935 Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network

1935 "Your Hit Parade" made its debut on radio

1935 Bob Hope 1st heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue"

1934 David Warrilow, actor, Simon, Radio Days, Dakota Road, Barton Fink

1934 "The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio

1934 "Lux Radio Theatre" premieres

1934 Netherlands Indies BC Ltd begins radio transmission (Indonesia)

1934 "It Happened One Night," opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall

1933 Larry King, New York City, radio/TV host "143 Arivadechi", Larry King Show, CNN

1933 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington

1933 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, New York

1933 Danny Aiello, born in New York City, actor, Moonstruck, Radio Days

1933 Karl Jansky reports reception of cosmic radio signal in Washington D.C.

1933 Dutch government forbids leftwing radio address

1933 Radio Clube de Mocambique's, 1st radio transmission

1933 "King Kong," premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy New York City

1933 Claude King, born in Keithville, Louisiana, singer, songwriter, performed on Louisiana Hayride television and radio show, billed alongside Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Tex Ritter

1933 "Lone Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio

1932 Radio City Music Hall opens (New York City)

1932 "Adv of Charlie Chan" 1st heard on NBC-Blue radio network

1932 Groucho Marx performed on radio for 1st time

1932 "Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio

1932 Henry Ford gives his 1st radio speech

1932 "Betty and Bob" premieres on radio

1932 Charles Stanley, born in Dry Fork, Virginia, senior pastor, founder of In Touch Ministries, created globally syndicated religious broadcasts, appearing in 500 radio stations, 300 television stations, in 49 languages

1932 Philips makes 1 millionth radio

1932 Jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)

1932 Casey Kasem, born in Detroit, Michigan, radio personality, American Top 40

1932 Jack Benny debuts on radio

1932 1st U.S. radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD)

1932 Nand Baert, Belgian radio/TV-host

1931 NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio

1931 1st broadcast of Dutch Radio Peoples University

1931 Pierre Huyskens, Dutch radio host

1931 Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, born in Moscow, Russia, conductor, U.S.S.R. State Radio

1931 Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS

1930 G[eorge] Gordon Liddy, head CIA/ate a rat/Watergate felon/radio host

1930 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, premiers on NBC radio

1930 Lowell Thomas made debuts on CBS Radio replacing Floyd Gibbons

1930 New York City College offers 1st course in radio advertising

1930 D[avid] G[uy] Compton, UK, sci-fi author, Synthajoy, Radio Plays

1930 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY

1930 Hugo Gryn, born in Britain, rabbi, broadcaster, appeared on BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day, leading voice in interfaith dialogue

1930 Patricia Lindop, radio biologist

1930 June Knox-Mawer, British radio host/novelist, World of Islands

1930 1st U.S. radio broadcast from a ship at sea

1930 WIS-AM (now WOMG) in Columbia South Carolina begins radio transmissions

1930 1st radio broadcast of "Lone Ranger" (WXYZ-Detroit)

1929 1st broadcast of "Goldbergs" on U.S. radio

1929 Ruby Vallee's Fleishmann Hour begins broadcasting on NBC radio

1929 WOR (New York City) ends affiliation with CBS radio network

1929 AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down

1929 WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions

1929 KLO-AM in Ogden, Utah begins radio transmissions

1929 KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions

1929 WHP-AM in Harrisburg Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions

1929 KID-AM in Idaho Falls, Idaho begins radio transmissions

1929 KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions

1929 "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio

1929 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara, California begins radio transmissions

1929 CBS radio network buys WABC in New York City

1928 NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast radio network

1928 WGH-AM in Newport News Virginia begins radio transmissions

1928 KXO-AM in El Centro California begins radio transmissions

1928 WGL-AM in Ft. Wayne IN begins radio transmissions

1928 WMT-AM in Cedar Rapids IA begins radio transmissions

1928 WOL-AM in Washington D.C. begins radio transmissions

1928 Wim Bosboom, Dutch radio/TV host

1928 KOH-AM in Reno NV begins radio transmissions

1928 Willem Duys, Dutch radio/TV host

1928 AVRO, General Vereniging Radio Omroep, forms

1928 Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are to be changed to conform with international standards

1928 Barry Took, born in Muswell Hill, North London, England, comedian, writer, television presenter on BBC program Points of View and BBC Radio 4 program The News Quiz, wrote comedy with Mary Feldman

1928 KPQ-AM in Wenatchee WA begins radio transmissions

1928 KGB-AM in San Diego, California begins radio transmissions

1928 "Amos and Andy" debuts on radio (NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago)

1928 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands and US

1928 Algemeene Vereeniging Radio Omroep (AVRO) begins broadcasting (Netherlands)

1927 Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN

1927 Ray Stern, mother of radio personality Howard Stern

1927 18 station CBS radio network begins, (WOR is New York City affiliate)

1927 President Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FCC)

1927 1st U.S. radio broadcast of "Cities Service Concerts"

1927 KGA-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions

1927 Royale Theater (Golden, CBS Radio Playhouse) opens at 242 W 45th New York City

1926 KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions

1926 KYA-AM in San Francisco, California begins radio transmissions

1926 WOW-AM in Omaha NE begins radio transmissions

1926 1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS)

1926 KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions

1926 KVI-AM in Seattle WA begins radio transmissions

1926 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)

1926 AT&T sells WEAF radio to RCA (New York City)

1926 National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America

1926 VPRO (Free thinking Protestant Radio Broadcast) forms

1926 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic

1926 Dutch Catholic Radio Broadcast (KRO) forms

1925 Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio Nashville Tn

1925 1st radio-broadcast of Dutch KRO (Catholic Radio Broadcast)

1925 VARA, Vereniging van Workers Radio Amateurs forms in Amsterdam

1925 KUT-AM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions

1925 WSM-AM in Nashville, Tennessee begins radio transmissions

1925 WJR-AM in Detroit Michigan begins radio transmissions

1925 KMA-AM in Shenandoah IA begins radio transmissions

1925 Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO) forms

1925 1st regular-season Cubs game to be broadcast on radio (WGN)

1925 1st transmission of Danish state radio

1925 WOWO-AM, Ft. Wayne Indiana begins radio transmission (500 watts)

1925 KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions

1925 President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations

1925 Pier Tania, Meinte Piet, radio/TV host, ANP, De Bezetting

1924 1st radio transmission of NCRV in Netherlands

1924 KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions

1924 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)

1924 Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms

1924 Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow

1924 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, U.S. - England

1924 Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host

1924 NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms

1924 1st transmission of radio Bloemendaal

1924 WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY

1924 1st political convention broadcast on radio - Republicans at Cleveland

1924 Desmond Carrington, British radio host, Jim-Calamity the Cow

1924 Antony Hewish, radio astronomer

1924 WHO-AM in Des Moines Iowa begins radio transmissions

1924 WLS-AM in Chicago, Illinois begins radio transmissions

1924 WGN-AM in Chicago, Illinois begins radio transmissions

1924 1st foreign language course broadcast on U.S. radio (WJZ, New York City)

1924 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago

1924 KGO-AM in San Francisco, California begins radio transmissions

1923 1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester

1923 WEAF radio begins broadcasting Eveready Hour (variety show)

1923 1st Congressional open session broadcast via radio (Washington D.C.)

1923 Radio Belgium's 1st transmission

1923 Clay Jones, born in England, horticulturalist, broadcaster, Chairman of the program Gardener's Question Time on BBC Radio 4, voted tenth alongside Carol Klein as the nation's all-time favorite gardener

1923 Radio Times 1st published

1923 WRC-AM in Washington D.C. begins radio transmissions

1923 1st permanent radio network-AT&T (WEAF New York and WMAF Mass)

1923 WMC-AM in Memphis Tennessee begins radio transmissions

1923 1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies

1922 BBC sends 1st British radio play "Truth about Father Christmas"

1922 BBC Radio began daily newscasts

1922 BBC begins domestic radio service from 2LO at Marconi House

1922 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game

1922 1st radio link, WNJ (Newark) and WGY (Senectady) link for World Series

1922 For 1st time, entire World Series broadcast over radio (WJZ and WGY)

1922 Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station)

1922 WEAF in New York City airs 1st radio commercia, Queensboro Realty, $100 for 10 minutes

1922 AT&T radio station WBAY becomes WEAF (New York City)

1922 1st "old time" musicians broadcasted on radio (Jenkins-WSB Atlanta)

1922 President Harding is 1st U.S. president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore

1922 WHB-AM in Kansas City Missouri begins radio transmissions

1922 KNX-AM in Los Angeles, California begins radio transmissions

1922 WOI (Ames, Iowa) country's 1st licensed educational radio station

1922 KOB-AM in Albuquerque, New Mexico begins radio transmissions

1922 WDZ-AM in Decatur, Illinois begins radio transmissions

1922 WAAB (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) becomes 1st U.S. radio station with "W" calls

1922 KFI-AM in Los Angeles California begins radio transmissions

1922 KGY-AM in Olympia WA begins radio transmissions

1922 WWL-AM in New Orleans LA begins radio transmissions

1922 KMJ-AM in Fresno California begins radio transmissions

1922 WEW-AM in Saint Louis Missouri begins radio transmissions

1922 KGW-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions

1922 WIP-AM in Philadelphia Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions

1922 WBT-AM in Charlotte North Carolina begins radio transmissions

1922 WKY-AM in Oklahoma City OK begins radio transmissions

1922 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)

1922 KGU-AM in Honolulu Hawaii begins radio transmissions

1922 KSD-AM in Saint Louis Missouri begins radio transmissions

1922 WGR-AM in Buffalo New York begins radio transmissions

1922 WRR-AM in Dallas Texas begins radio transmissions

1922 KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions

1922 KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions

1922 WWJ-AM in Detroit Michigan begins radio transmissions

1922 WLW-AM in Cincinnati OH begins radio transmissions

1922 KHQ-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions

1922 Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference

1922 WHK-AM in Cleveland OH begins radio transmissions

1922 WOR-AM in New York City begins radio transmissions

1922 Ed Wynn becomes 1st talent to sign as a radio entertainer

1922 WOC-AM in Davenport, Iowa begins radio transmissions

1922 Radio arrives at the White House

1922 WGY-AM in Schenectady New York begins radio transmissions

1922 WHA-AM in Madison WI begins radio transmissions

1922 KQV-AM in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions

1921 KWG-AM in Stockton California begins radio transmissions

1921 KYW-AM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions

1921 1st World Series radio broadcast, Yankees beat Giants 3-0

1921 WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions

1921 1st radio baseball broadcast Pirates-8, Phillies-0 (KDKA, Pitts)

1921 Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co

1921 KDKA broadcast 1st radio sporting event, a boxing match (Ray-Dundee)

1921 Earl Nightingale, born in Los Angeles, California, author, motivational speaker, his radio program, 'Our Changing World', most highly syndicated radio program ever, recorded over 7,000 radio programs

1921 1st religious service radio broadcast in U.S., KDKA-Pittsburgh

1920 Ricardo Montalban, born in Mexico, American radio, television, film actor, Mr. Roarke in 'Fantasy Island' television show

1920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) goes on air as 1st commercial radio station

1920 Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins

1920 Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight

1920 Detroit radio station is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air

1920 1st U.S. coml radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting

1920 Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation

1920 Big Show ends 2 year run on NBC radio

1919 1st Dutch radio program: Soiree Musicale with "Turf in you(r) ransel"

1919 Ir Steringa Idzerda begins hosting "soiree-musical" on Dutch radio

1919 Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created

1918 Frankie Darro, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Radio Ranch, Valley of Wanted Men

1918 Martin Ryle, Britain, radio astronomer/astronomer royal, 1972-82

1918 Paul Harvey, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, radio broadcaster and news commentator, 'Rest of the Story'

1918 Peter Aryans, PCJ Vander, Dutch radio actor, Shoot Out

1917 Kees Schilperoort, Dutch radio/TV host

1917 Bea Wain, U.S. singer/radio host, Lucky Strike Hit Parade

1916 Jessie Kesson, born in Scotland, Jessie Grant McDonald, author, novelist, radio producer, and playwright

1916 Barry Gray, Bernard Yaroslaw, interviewer, started call-in radio

1915 1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent

1914 Richard Widmark, born in Minnesota, American actor in films, theater, radio, television

1913 Percy Thrower, English radio host

1912 Kenny Baker, radio singer and actor, Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back

1912 Brian Johnston, cricketer, BBC radio commentator and cake connoisseur

1911 Grote Reber, U.S., astronomer, 1st parabolic radio telescope

1911 Benny Lee, born in Glasgow, Scotland, entertainer, comedy actor, singer, appeared in radio comedy programs, including It's a Square World, appeared in episodes of Are You Being Served?, and the television series Minder

1910 1st radio contest held (Philadelphia)

1909 Cleo Brown, born in Mississippi, pianist, vocalist, stage name Cleo Patra Brown, performed on National Public Radio, stride piano playing was compared to Fats Waller

1909 Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder, English radio comic/actor, Phoenix

1909 1st radio rescue at sea

1908 Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B. Stubblefield

1907 Eugene H Farrar is 1st to sing on radio (Brooklyn Navy Yard New York)

1907 Arlene Francis, Boston, radio/TV host, What's My Line?

1907 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired

1906 Reginald A Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio (Mass)

1906 International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help

1906 U.S. inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion," a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio and broadcasting

1906 Dr. Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube)

1906 Lanny Ross, Seattle, radio singer, Show Boat, The Swift Show

1906 1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile

1905 Karl Jansky, Czechoslovakia, discoverer, cosmic radio emissions in 1932

1905 Luther Diamond, radio personality

1905 Anne Schumacher Hummert, radio pioneer

1904 Paul Arma, born in Budapest, born Weisshaus Imre, pianist, composer, ethnomusicologist, studied under Bela Bartok, piano soloist with Radio Paris

1904 Godfrey Baseley, radio executive

1904 Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as 1st International radio distress signal

1903 Arthur Godfrey, New York City, radio/TV host, Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scout

1903 Bernard Lovell, England, radio astronomer, founded Jodrell Bank

1903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between U.S. and England

1902 Nathan Stubblefield makes 1st public demonstration of radio, Penn

1901 Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal, England to US

1901 Marconi sends 1st transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Nfld

1901 Conrad Beck, born in Lohn, Switzerland, composer, studied with Jacques Ibert, head of Radio Basel music department for 30 years, composed concertos, symphonies, oratorio, elegy, instrumental, vocal music, and one ballet

1900 Graham Spry, St. Thomas Ontario, Canadian radio pioneer

1899 Mary Margaret McBride, Paris, Missouri, radio personality, WOR-AM, New York City

1899 Freeman Gosden, Richmond, Virginia, radio actor, Amos-Amos 'n' Andy

1899 Goodman Ace, radio/TV actor/columnist/humorist, Better of Goodman

1898 Guglielmo Marconi patents radio

1898 Herman de Man, Salomon H Hamburger, Dutch writer/Radio Orange

1898 Marian Jordan, Peoria, Illinois, radio comedienne, Fibber McGee and Molly

1896 Jim Jordan, Peoria, Illinois, radio comedian, Fibber McGee

1896 Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio

1894 Fred Allen, Cambridge Massachusetts, comedian, Fred Allen Radio Show

1893 Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor/radio play director, Paul Vlaanderen

1891 Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)

1891 Max Tak, Dutch violinist and radio commentator

1891 David Sarnoff, U.S., radio/TV pioneer/CEO, RCA

1890 Edwin Howard Armstrong, New York City, radio pioneer inventor, FM

1890 Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist, Pentecostal, radio preacher

1890 Maria Matos, Lisbon Portugal, actress, Menina da Radio

1889 Ralph W. Sockman, born in New York, New York, Protestant pastor, author, successful radio show, National Radio Pulpit, considered by Time magazine as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S.

1888 Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder, AVRO

1886 Louis Hazeltine, inventor, neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible

1886 Anton Portielje, Dutch radio host/zoo director, Artis

1882 John Lowry, Mount Vernon, New York, New York City builder, Radio City Music Hall

1876 Nico[laas P] de Jong, Dutch radio play actor, Laughter and Tears

1874 Edward Bowes, radio host, Major Bowes Amateur Hour

1874 Guglielmo Marconi, born in Bologna, Italy, inventor, radio, Nobel 1909

1873 Lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor, Audion vacuum, radio, tube

1872 Mahlon Loomis patents wireless radio

1865 L H Perquin, Dutch religious radio speaker

1857 Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast and receive radio waves

1851 Oliver Joseph Lodge, born in England, early radio pioneer


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