1910 in radio

The year 1910 in radio involved some significant events.

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Events

• 13 January – Birth of public radio broadcasting: The first public radio broadcast, live performances of arias from the operas Cavalleria rusticana (Mascagni) and Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) featuring the tenor Enrico Caruso from the Metropolitan Opera House (39th St) in New York City, is broadcast by Lee de Forest.[1][2][3]
• Wireless Ship Act of 1910 passed by the United States Congress, requiring all ships of the United States traveling over two-hundred miles off the coast and carrying over fifty passengers to be equipped with wireless radio equipment with a range of one hundred miles.[4]

Births

• 16 January – Dwight Weist, American actor and announcer (d. 1991)
• 22 March – Elisabeth Barker, British current affairs radio administrator (d. 1986)
• 10 April – Olive Shapley, English radio documentary producer and broadcaster (d. 1999)
• 3 May – Norman Corwin, American writer-producer (d. 2011)
• 17 June – Sam Costa, British crooner, voice actor and disc jockey (d. 1981)
• 21 August – D. G. Bridson, English radio producer and author (d. 1980)
• 1 September – Charles Maxwell, Scottish-born radio producer (d. 1998)

References

1. Chase's 2000 Calendar of Events. NTC/Contemporary Publishing Group. 2000. p. 84. ISBN 0-8092-2776-2. Radio Broadcasting: 90th Anniversary. Jan 13, 1910. Radio pioneer and electron tube inventor Lee De Forest arranged the world's first radio broadcast to the public at New York, New York. He succeeded in broadcasting the voice of Enrico Caruso along with other stars of the Metropolitan Opera to several receiving locations in the city where listeners with earphones marveled at wireless music from the air. Though only a few were equipped to listen, it was the first broadcast to reach the public and the beginning of a new era in which wireless radio communication became almost universal.
2. "Lee De Forest history". Archived from the original on 10 June 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2008.
3. "Lee De Forest (1873-1961)". Television International. Archived from the original on 17 January 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2008.
4. Slotten, Hugh Richard (2000). Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States 1920–1960. JHU Press. pp. 6–8. ISBN 0-8018-6450-X.