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5 January: FM radio is demonstrated for the Federal Communications Commission in the United States for the first time. 7 January: The BBC Forces Programme begins broadcasting in the United Kingdom; it becomes the most popular channel among civilians at home as well as its primary target audience.
The Timid Soul was a 1941–1942 comedy based on cartoonist H. T. Webster's famed Caspar Milquetoast character, and Robert L. Ripley's Believe It or Not! was adapted to several different radio formats during the 1930s and 1940s. Conversely, some radio shows gave rise to spinoff comic strips, such as My Friend Irma starring Marie Wilson. [19]
WPIT (1939-1940) [41] Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: November 1920 – December 1939 Owned and operated by Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Used to relay KDKA signal to AM rebroadcasters in other cities. [42] Broadcast programming from KDKA, and also broadcast Northern Messenger to the Arctic. Merged with WBOS (1940) and became a VOA transmitter ...
The Big Story (radio and TV series) Big Town; Bing Crosby on Armed Forces Radio in World War II; The Bishop and the Gargoyle; Blackstone, the Magic Detective; Blind Date (radio series) Blind Date (American game show) Blondie (radio series) Blue Ribbon Town; Bob Crosby; Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders; Boston Blackie; Boston Blackie (radio ...
On May 24, 1940, the FCC had announced the establishment, effective January 1, 1941, of an FM radio band operating on 40 channels spanning 42–50 MHz, with the first five channels (42.1 to 42.9 MHz) reserved for educational stations, and the other 35 (43.1 to 49.9 MHz) available for commercial operation. [1]
25 February – The Proud Valley is the first known film to have its première on radio when the BBC broadcasts a 60-minute version. [1]29 February – Welsh Rarebit first broadcast by the BBC from its Cardiff studio; [2] the resident 25-strong male voice choir, the Lyrian Singers, premieres the song "We'll Keep a Welcome" with music by the programme's producer Mai Jones.
The Blue Network (previously known as the NBC Blue Network) was the on-air name of a now defunct American radio network, which broadcast from 1927 through 1945.. Beginning as one of the two radio networks owned by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), the independent Blue Network was born of a divestiture in 1942, arising from antitrust litigation.
The 1926 formation of the National Broadcasting Company was a consolidation and reorganization of earlier network radio operations developed by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) beginning in 1922, in addition to more limited efforts conducted by the "radio group" companies, which consisted of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and its corporate owners, General Electric (GE ...