Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The first woman known to have worked professionally as a maritime radio operator was Annie Tucker, beginning in October 1908 aboard the Indianapolis, [14] which made four trips daily on Puget Sound between Tacoma and Seattle, Washington. [15]
The first radio station in Japan was JOAK, which opened in Tokyo in March 1925. It was founded by Masajiro Kotamura, an inventor and engineer. It was unique in that at least one of its announcers was a woman, Akiko Midorikawa. [37] JOAK was followed soon after by JOBK in Osaka and JOCK in Nagoya.
Pegeen Fitzgerald was another of the first women in the radio industry. Fitzgerald began her own show from her apartment in 1937 and became known as "First Lady of Radio Chatter". In her talk show she covered numerous topics, and in the 1940s her husband and she were one of the most highly paid double acts in radio, earning about $160,000 a ...
first prominent American female journalist, radio/television newscaster and commentator Dorothy Fuldheim (June 26, 1893 – November 3, 1989) was an American journalist and anchor who spent the majority of her career at The Cleveland Press and WEWS-TV , both based in Cleveland , Ohio .
Sheila Borrett (born Margaret Sheila Graham; 20 June 1905 – 30 April 1986) was a British radio presenter, the first female announcer on the BBC’s National Service. [1] At the time of her work as a BBC announcer she was referred to as Mrs Giles Borrett , [ 2 ] but she generally used the stage name Sheila Stewart , or during a later marriage ...
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:
Milestones in radio: the first half century (1895–1945). The UNESCO courier (February 1997), p. 16–21; Radio Review/Radio Listeners Guide (1925–1929), Broadcasting Yearbook (1935–2010), World Radio TV Handbook (1947–) Berg, Jerome S. The early shortwave stations: a broadcasting history through 1945 (2013) radioheritage.net
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 ]