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16 November 1924: first regular broadcast of Ukrainian Radio. December 1924: starting of regular broadcast in Russia. 23 May 1925: First broadcast in Tbilisi, Georgia. 1 November 1925: First broadcast in Riga, Latvia. 1 December 1925: First broadcast in Budapest, Hungary. Mid 1920s:
The War of the Worlds radio broadcast by Orson Welles on electrical transcription disc. Before the early 1950s, when radio networks and local stations wanted to preserve a live broadcast, they did so by means of special phonograph records known as "electrical transcriptions" (ETs), made by cutting a sound-modulated groove into a blank disc. At ...
The Academy Awards ceremony (the Oscars) is televised for the first time after previously being broadcast by radio, beginning in 1930. TV Guide is founded. The first "TV dinner" is made by C.A. Swanson & Sons. The first color television introduced in the United States of America.
In 1981, United Video Satellite Group launched the first EPG service in North America, a cable channel known simply as The Electronic Program Guide.It allowed cable systems in the United States and Canada to provide on-screen listings to their subscribers 24 hours a day (displaying programming information up to 90 minutes in advance) on a dedicated cable channel.
Many BBC radio comedy programmes have been successful enough for the writers and performers to adapt them into television programmes. Unless otherwise stated these programmes were originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and then broadcast on one of the BBC's TV channels. The following list gives some of the more notable ones.
2000: WCBS leaves "Black Rock" for West 57th Street as part of a move to broadcasting using all-digital technology. Also around this time, the station begins referring to itself at Newsradio 880.
On February 17, 1919, station 9XM at the University of Wisconsin in Madison broadcast human speech to the public at large. 9XM was first experimentally licensed in 1914, began regular Morse code transmissions in 1916, and its first music broadcast in 1917. Regularly scheduled broadcasts of voice and music began in January 1921.
The first radio station in Germany went on the air in Berlin in late 1923, using the call letters "LP." [34] Before 1933, German radio broadcasting was conducted by 10 regional broadcasting monopolies, each of which had a government representative on its board. The Post Office provided overall supervision.