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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 Neville Chamberlain , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , speaking from 10 Downing Street, announces on the BBC at 11.15 local time (10.15 GMT ) that "this country ...
After World War II, FM radio broadcasting was introduced in Germany. At a meeting in Copenhagen in 1948, a new wavelength plan was set up for Europe. Because of the recent war, Germany (which did not exist as a state and so was not invited) was only given a small number of medium-wave frequencies, which were not very good for broadcasting.
The next year the company used the same concept to begin establishing the first radio network. [107] The WEAF and WJZ chains. At the same time in early 1922 that it announced the beginning of advertisement-supported broadcasting, AT&T also introduced its plans for the development of the first radio network. [104]
For many years, telex-on-radio (TOR) was the only reliable way to reach some third-world countries. TOR remains reliable, though less-expensive forms of e-mail are displacing it. Many national telecom companies historically ran nearly pure telex networks for their governments, and they ran many of these links over short wave radio.
Radio was the first broadcast medium, and during this period people regularly tuned in to their favorite radio programs, and families gathered to listen to the home radio in the evening. According to a 1947 C. E. Hooper survey, 82 out of 100 Americans were found to be radio listeners. [ 1 ]
30 January – Adolf Hitler makes his last public speech to be delivered personally, on broadcast radio, expressing the belief that Germany will triumph in World War II. 15 March – The Academy Awards are broadcast on the radio in their entirety for the first time, on ABC and the Armed Forces Radio.
The Londoner Rundfunk (English: German Service) of the BBC was a German language radio service running from 1938 until 1999 as part of the wider BBC European Service.It began operating during the Second World War and continued running until after the dissolution of the GDR and the end of the Cold War.
Vic Oliver is the first castaway. [2] The series will still be running (on BBC Radio 4) more than 75 years later. 23 February – Fireside chat by the President of the United States: On Progress of the War. 24 February – The Voice of America begins short-wave radio broadcasting using CBS and NBC transmitters.