1939 in radio

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The year 1939 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting.

Events

  • 17 June – A trans-Atlantic radio broadcast features coloratura soprano Ewa Bandrowska-Turska singing four songs by Karol Szymanowski from Wawel Castle in Krakow, Poland, for a United States audience on WENR.[1]
  • 15 July – Inauguration of DZRH, one of the oldest radio stations in the Philippines.
  • 29 July – In France, with war on the horizon, a package of decrees tightens the state's control of public radio and obliges all private stations to broadcast, unedited, the government's Radio-Journal in place of their own news programmes.[2]
  • 7 August – Official test transmissions begin from Radio Andorra. The station is ceremonially inaugurated two days later by the French Minister of Public Works, Anatole de Monzie.
  • 1 September – At 18.55 local time BBC engineers receive the order to begin closing down all transmitters in preparation for wartime broadcasting: this marks the end of the National and Regional Programmes of the BBC. At 20.15 local time the BBC's Home Service begins transmission: this will be the Corporation's only domestic radio channel for the first four months of World War II.
  • 3 September
  • 19 September – Popular British radio comedy show It's That Man Again with Tommy Handley is first broadcast on the BBC Home service, following trial broadcasts from 12 July.[3][4] Known as "ITMA", it runs for ten years.
  • 11 December – Havana, Cuba's CMQ (from 1959, state-owned Radio Rebelde) becomes the first affiliate for the NBC Red Network based outside of the United States and Canada.[5]
  • 12 December – James M. Cox gains control of WSB and a 40 percent interest in WAGA, both in Atlanta, Georgia.[6]
  • 22 December – KORN begins broadcasting in Fremont, Nebraska, on 1370 kHz.[7]
  • 25 December – Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is read for the first time on American radio (CBS).

Debuts

Programs

Stations

  • 28 July – KVAK, Atchison, Kansas, begins broadcasting on 1420 kHz with 100 W power (daytime only).[10]
  • 25 December – The Bartons debuts on the Blue Network.[9]
  • December – WCAR, Pontiac, Michigan, begins broadcasting on 1100 kHz with 1 KW power (daytime only).[11]

Endings

Births

References

  1. ^ "From Poland". The Capital Times. Madison, Wisconsin. 16 June 1939. p. 15. Retrieved 10 February 2016 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  2. ^ Nord, Philip (2012). France's New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era. Princeton University Press. p. 250. ISBN 0691156115.
  3. ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 385–386. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  4. ^ "The BBC Story – 1930s" (PDF). Retrieved 31 May 2010.
  5. ^ "Radio: Cuba Joins". Time. 19 December 1939.
  6. ^ "Cox Purchase WSB, Slated for CBS" (PDF). Broadcasting. 15 December 1939. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  7. ^ "New KORN, Fremont, Neb" (PDF). Broadcasting. 1 January 1940. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  8. ^ a b Dunning, John. (1976). Tune in Yesterday: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, 1925-1976. Prentice-Hall, Inc. ISBN 0-13-932616-2.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Dunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3. P. 8.
  10. ^ "New KVAK on the Air" (PDF) (Broadcasting). 1 September 1939. p. 89. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  11. ^ "WCAR, Pontiac, Mich. Takes Air on 1100 kc" (PDF). Broadcasting. 1 January 1940. p. 22. Retrieved 20 May 2016.

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