1926 in radio

The year 1926 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.

List of years in radio (table)
In television
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929

Events

Debuts

  • 12 January – Sam 'n' Henry debuts on WGN in Chicago, Illinois.[4] Two years later, the creators of the show, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, leave and start the similar show Amos 'n' Andy.
  • 26 February – 1150 AM returns to the air, this time as WJBO in New Orleans.
  • 1 November – Radio Belgique (1924–30) broadcasts the first edition of Le Journal Parlé: "All the world's and all the day's news in thirty minutes".[5]
  • 26 November – The National Broadcasting Company commences operations on what will later become the NBC Red Network, composed of AT&T's WEAF-WCAP mini-network.
  • 13 December – WWVA at Wheeling, West Virginia signs on at 2A.M. from owner John Stroebel's residence.

Births

References

  1. RTÉ Libraries and Archives: History of RTÉ
  2. "The BBC Radio Panic, 1926". Museum of Hoaxes. Archived from the original on 2015-01-03. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
  3. Radio Rewind
  4. Cox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-3848-8.
  5. "Le Journal Parlé fête ses 80 ans". Cybercommunauté de la Communauté française. Retrieved 2019-11-06.


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