1923 in radio
Overview of the events of 1923 in radio From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1923 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1923.
- 1 January – In the United States the American Football Rose Bowl Game is broadcast for the first time, on Los Angeles station KHJ.
- 4 January – The first network broadcast is made when WEAF in New York City and WNAC in Boston simultaneously broadcast a saxophone solo.[1]
- 8 January – First outside broadcast by the British Broadcasting Company: a British National Opera Company production of The Magic Flute from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
- 18 January – The United Kingdom Postmaster General grants the BBC a licence to broadcast.
- 20 January – Inauguration of Paris PTT, a station organized by and broadcasting from the École supérieure des postes et télégraphes (the French post office's higher educational institute of engineering).
- 8 February – Norman Albert calls the first live broadcast of an ice hockey game, the third period of an Ontario Hockey League Intermediate playoff game, on Toronto radio station CFCA.[2][3]
- 13 March – Production of the first radio set incorporating a loudspeaker. All previously produced sets have required the use of headphones.[citation needed]
- 14 March – Pete Parker calls the play-by-play of the first ice hockey game ever broadcast on the radio in its entirety, between the Regina Capitals and the Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Canada Hockey League.[4]
- 1 April – In Vienna the Czeija & Nissl electrical company begins test transmissions from its premises in co-operation with a technical high school, the Technisches Gewerbemusem. This marks the start of radio broadcasting in Austria.
- 18 May – The first regular radio broadcasts begin in Czechoslovakia.[5]
- 1 June – The publicly owned Canadian National Railways establishes the CNR Radio network to supply programming on its fleet of passenger cars; it is the first national network in North America and precursor to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
- 21 July – The Dutch radio manufacturing company Nederlandsche Seintoestellen Fabriek begins regular radio broadcasting in the Netherlands.
- 28 September – First publication of the BBC listings magazine, Radio Times, in Britain.[6]
- 29 October – Regular radio broadcasting in Germany officially begins with the first evening transmission from the Sendestelle Berlin installed at the Vox-Haus in Potsdamer Platz.[7][8]
- 8 November – First BBC broadcast in Welsh[9]
- 13 November – Australia's first licensed radio station, 2SB, begins transmission in Sydney.
- 23 November – In Belgium, French-speaking station Radio Bruxelles begins broadcasting (it will change its name to Radio Belgique on 1 January 1924).
- 2 December – First BBC broadcast in Gaelic[9]
- 31 December
- KDKA in Pittsburgh conducts the first transcontinental voice broadcast with a station in Manchester, England.[10]
- The BBC broadcasts the chimes of Big Ben from London for the first time.[6]
- 22 March – Hockey Night in Canada is first broadcast on the Toronto Star's private station CFCA.
- 26 January – Patricia Hughes, English continuity announcer (died 2013)
- 2 March – Jean Metcalfe, English radio broadcaster (died 2000)
- 9 May – Johnny Grant, American radio host and producer (died 2008)
- 10 October – Nicholas Parsons, British entertainer (died 2020)
- 21 November – Margaret Lyons, born Keiko Margaret Inouye, Canadian broadcast executive (died 2019)
- 22 December – John Ebdon, British radio broadcaster, Graecophile, author and director of the London Planetarium (died 2005)
- 25 December – Gordon Baxter, American radio personality, author and columnist (died 2005)
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