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28 March – New York City radio station WQXR (now WFME) bans singing commercials from being broadcast on its station. 30 April – (Six days before) The American Broadcasting Station in Europe (ABSIE) is established, transmitting from the United Kingdom in English, German, French, Dutch, Danish, and Norwegian to resistance movements in ...
Radio Oranje made its first broadcast on 28 July 1940, consisting of a rendition of the nationalist song Merck toch hoe sterck, followed by a speech by Queen Wilhelmina. In total, Wilhelmina spoke on Radio Oranje 34 times during the course of the war. The name, Radio Oranje, was a tribute to the Dutch monarchy's House of Orange-Nassau.
The Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (RRG; Reich Broadcasting Corporation) [2] was a national network of German regional public radio and television broadcasting companies active from 1925 until 1945. RRG's broadcasts were receivable in all parts of Germany and were used extensively for Nazi propaganda after 1933.
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In comparison to television, radio was a much more affordable form of entertainment. Because of this, the radio was the most popular form of entertainment during World War II. Radio stations fueled propaganda and reached a countless number of citizens. Many shows popularized and quickly gained influence in certain countries.
British propaganda during the First World War set a new benchmark that inspired the fascist and socialist regimes during the Second World War and the Cold War [citation needed]; Marshal Paul von Hindenburg stated, "This English propaganda was a new weapon, or rather a weapon which had never been employed on such a scale and so ruthlessly in the past."
26 July – Gene Autry takes his oath of office to join the United States Army during the broadcast of Gene Autry's Melody Ranch. [4] September – The Brains Trust first broadcast under this title on BBC Home Service radio in the United Kingdom. [5] 7 September – Fireside chat: On Inflation and Progress of the War.
Aspidistra broadcast on medium wave with 600 kW of power. The transmitter (originally 500 kW) had been built by RCA for WJZ radio in Newark, New Jersey, United States.But at the prompting of the United States Congress, spurred on by competition, [1] the Federal Communications Commission later imposed a 50-kW power limit on all US stations.