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GI Jive was a 15-minute radio program transmitted by the Armed Forces Radio Service for entertainment of soldiers in World War II. Its initial frequency of five days per week later increased to six days per week. [1] It was included in the group of "programs proposed for production on the AFRS's initial schedule". [2]
Mail Call was an American radio program that entertained American soldiers from 1942 until 1945, during World War II. Lt. Col. Thomas A.H. Lewis (commander of the Armed Forces Radio Service) wrote in 1944, "The initial production of the Armed Forces Radio Service was 'Mail Call,' a morale-building half hour which brought famed performers to the microphone to sing and gag in the best American ...
The Times will program the AM station until December 1998, and own the FM station until October 2009. 26 October – With fascism defeated in most parts of Italy , the national broadcasting organization Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche (EIAR) is overhauled and renamed Radio Audizioni Italiane (RAI), the future Radiotelevisione Italiana .
World War II propaganda radio stations (11 P) Pages in category "Radio during World War II" ... Mail Call (radio program) Milton Bryan; R. Radio Belgique; Radio Congo ...
11 September: The Bartons ends its run on network radio . [6] 22 September: Cheers from the Camps ends its run on network radio . [6] 25 September: The Story of Bess Johnson ends its run on network radio . [11] 27 September: Joe and Mabel ends its run on network radio (NBC). [6] 3 November: The Avenger (radio program) ends its run on WHN. [6]
[2] 15 July – Inauguration of DZRH, one of the oldest radio stations in the Philippines. 29 July – In France, with war on the horizon, a package of decrees tightens the state's control of public radio and obliges all private stations to broadcast, unedited, the government's Radio-Journal in place of their own news programmes. [3]
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.
2 June: British Secretary of State for War Anthony Eden gives a radio address claiming success of the Dunkirk evacuation. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] 5 June: Yorkshire-born novelist and playwright J. B. Priestley broadcasts his first Sunday evening radio Postscript , "An excursion to hell", on the BBC Home Service, marking the role of the pleasure steamers in ...