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Singers such as Harriet Lee and Wendell Hall became popular fixtures on network radio beginning in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Local stations often had staff organists such as Jesse Crawford playing popular tunes. Classical music programs on the air included The Voice of Firestone and The Bell Telephone Hour.
Pages in category "1920s American radio programs" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Pages in category "Radio stations established in 1920" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. H.
While shock jocks such as Don Imus have been in existence since at least the 1970s, and the morning zoo radio format was popular among local stations beginning in the 1980s, the first shock jock to make a major national impact was Howard Stern, whose New York-based show was syndicated nationwide beginning in the early 1990s. Stern built a ...
The first shortwave station in Europe. 25 June 1926 (test transmissions began), and the first shortwave station in the world with its own dedicated programming rather than being a simulcast of an AM/MW or LW station such as KDKA. Regular broadcast from 30 May 1927 to May 1940 when the station went dark due to the German occupation of Holland ...
The Baby Snooks Show; Bachelor's Children; Backstage Wife; The Baker's Broadcast; Baltimore Achievement Hour [1]: 23 ; Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator; Beale Street Nightlife [1]: 25
20 August – Station 8MK in Detroit (modern-day WWJ) began broadcasts of regularly scheduled news bulletins and religious shows. The news is compiled from reports supplied by the Detroit News. [5] 27 August – Sociedad Radio Argentina airs a live performance of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal from the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires. Only ...
During this era, nearly all of radio's most popular programs were broadcast on one of three networks: NBC Red, NBC Blue, or CBS' Columbia network. The top-rated radio programs on American radio from each season: [40] [41] 1930–31, 1931–32: Amos 'n' Andy (Pepsodent, NBC-WJZ) 1932–33, 1933–34: The Chase and Sanborn Hour (Eddie Cantor, NBC ...