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Overview of the events of 1928 in radio
The year 1928 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history.
Events
1 January – Algemeene Vereeniging Radio Omroep begins broadcasting in the Netherlands .[ 1]
2 January – The BBC broadcasts The Daily Service – a 15-minute act of Christian worship – for the first time, from its Savoy Hill studios in London. The programme will still be broadcast five mornings a week on BBC Radio 4 (LW) as of 2020.[ 2]
30 January – First radiotelephone connection between the Netherlands and the United States .[ 3]
25 March – Italian radio broadcasts its first live football commentary: the game is an international match between Italy and Hungary.
27 March – KGB (AM) in San Diego begins broadcasting.[ 4]
2 May – KPQ (AM) in Wenatchee , Washington begins broadcasting.[ 5]
7 July – The French government issues an order limiting the list of private radio stations permitted to continue broadcasting to: Poste Parisien , Radio Agen , Radio Béziers , Radio Bordeaux Sud-Ouest , Radio Juan-les-Pins , Radio LL , Radio Lyon , Radio Mont-de-Marsan , Radio Montpellier , Radio Nîmes , Radio Paris , Radio Toulouse , and Radio Vitus .[ 6]
13 September – KOH-AM in Reno , Nevada begins broadcasting.[ 7]
28 October – Radio Ljubljana begins regularly programmed transmissions.
1 November – The first official broadcast in Romanian is aired by the Societatea de Difuziune Radiotelefonică (Radiotelephonic Broadcasting Company ) in Bucharest .[ 8]
11 November – General Order 40 is implemented by the United States government; this allows the classification of each allocation in the AM band as either "Local," "Regional," or "Clear." This allows for the creation of clear-channel stations broadcasting at maximum power at night.
20 November – WGH (AM) in Newport News , Virginia begins broadcasting.[ 12]
23 December – NBC sets up its first permanent, coast-to-coast radio network.[ 13]
Debuts
3 January – The Voice of Firestone NBC .
4 January – The Dodge Victory Hour
19 March – Amos 'n' Andy NBC Blue Network , broadcasting from WMAQ-AM , a radio station owned by the Chicago Daily News [ 14]
November – Live broadcast of National Service of Remembrance in Whitehall , London, first made by the BBC .
19 November – Happy Station Show
24 December – First broadcast of Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King's College Chapel, Cambridge , by the BBC.[ 15]
Radio calisthenics (ラジオ体操, rajio taisō ), daily exercises, first broadcast on NHK in Japan,
Endings
Births
16 January – Menchu Álvarez del Valle , Spanish radio journalist (died 2021 )
21 May – Tom Donahue , pioneering American rock and roll radio disc jockey and freeform rock pioneer (died 1975 )
6 June – R. D. Wingfield , English radio dramatist and detective novelist (died 2007 )
19 June – Barry Took , English comedy writer and broadcast presenter (died 2002 )
2 July – John Timpson , English radio news presenter (died 2005 )
17 August – Willem Duys , Dutch radio/television host[ 17] 2011 )
17 September – Brian Matthew , English disc jockey (died 2017 )
20 October – Michael O'Donnell , English physician, journalist, medical campaigner and broadcaster (died 2019 )
9 November – Wim Bosboom , Dutch radio/television host[ 18]
References
