Year
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Countries and territories
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1916 |
United States (2XG New York City; 8MK Detroit > WWJ & 8XK Pittsburgh > KDKA 1920)
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1919 |
Netherlands (PCGG The Hague; HDO Hilversum 1923)
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1920 |
Argentina (LOR Buenos Aires), Canada (XWA Montreal > 9AM > CFCF)
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1921 |
Australia (2CM Sydney), France (R. Tour Eiffel, Paris), Mexico (TND Monterrey)
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1922 |
Brazil (SPE Rio de Janeiro),[1] Cuba (2LC Havana, followed by PWX), Hawaii (KGU Honolulu), New Zealand (R. Dunedin > 4AB), Paraguay (CXZ-27 Asunción; ZP1 1926), Philippines (KZKZ Manila), Puerto Rico (WKAQ San Juan), United Kingdom (2MT Writtle;[2] 2LO London), Uruguay (CW90A R. Paradizábal, Montevideo;[3] CWOA 1927)
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1923 |
Belgium (R. Bruxelles), Chile (CBC R. Chilena Santiago), Czechoslovakia (Radiojournal, Prague), Germany (Funk-Stunde, Berlin), India (2FV R. Club Bombay > IBC 1927), Shanghai (XRO Shanghai), South Africa (JB Johannesburg), Switzerland (2HB Lausanne)[4]
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1924 |
Alaska (KFQD Anchorage), Austria (RAVAG, Vienna), Dominican Republic (HIH Santo Domingo; HIX 1928),[5] Italy (IRO Rome URI), Luxemburg (R. Luxembourg), Newfoundland (8WMC St. John's > VOWR), Singapore (1SE AWSM > ZHI 1933),[6] Soviet Union (Moscow: RA1 Komintern, RA2 MGSPS), Spain (EAJ2 Madrid, EAJ1 Barcelona)
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1925 |
Afghanistan (R. Kabul), Algeria (8DB Algiers), Byelorussian SSR (RA18 Minsk), Ceylon (Colombo R.), Denmark (Statsradiofonien, Copenhagen), Dutch East Indies (BRX, Batavia > NIROM),[7] Hungary (Magyarországi Rádióhírmondó, Budapest; wired Hírmondó 1893), Japan (JOAK Tokyo), Kwantung (JQAK Dairen), Latvia (Radiofon Riga), Norway (Kringkastingsselskapet, Oslo), Peru (OAX Lima), Portugal (P1AA Lisbon), Sweden (Radiotjänst, Stockholm), Ukrainian SSR (RA21 Kharkiv)
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1926 |
Armenian SSR (RA49 Yerevan), Azerbaijan SSR (RA45 Baku), Burma (2HZ R. Club Rangoon), China (XOH Harbin; XKM Nanjing 1928; XNCR Yan'an 1940); CZ: Slovakia (Radiojournal, Bratislava), Danzig (Landessender Danzig), Egypt (R. Farouk et al., Cairo),[8] El Salvador (AQM San Salvador), Estonia (R. Ringhääling, Tallinn), Finland (Yle, Helsinki; 3NB Tampere 1924), Georgian SSR (RA27 Tbilisi), Iceland (H.f. Útvarp, Reykjavík), Ireland (2RN Dublin), Lithuania (Lietuvos radijas, Kaunas), Poland (Polskie R., Warsaw), Venezuela (AYRE Caracas), Yugoslavia: Croatia (R. Zagreb)
|
1927 |
Bolivia (CPX La Paz; CP1AA 1922), Costa Rica (TI4NRH Heredia), Kenya (VQ7LO Nairobi), Korea, South (JODK Keijo), Turkey (İstanbul Radyosu), Turkmen SSR (RA6 Ashgabat), Uzbek SSR (RA27 Tashkent)
|
1928 |
Greece (Thessaloniki; YRE 1938), Honduras (HRB La Voz del Trópico, Tegucigalpa), Hong Kong (GOW), Morocco (R. Maroc), Pakistan (YMCA, Lahore; Karachi 1926?),[9] Romania (R. Bukarest), Taiwan (JFAK Taihoku), Thailand (4PJ Bangkok), Vietnam: Tonkin (R. Sindex, Haiphong), YU: Slovenia (R. Ljubljana)
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1929 |
Colombia (HJN Bogotá), Ecuador (El Prado, Riobamba), Réunion (R. Saint-Denis), YU: Serbia (R. Belgrade; Rakovica 1924)
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1930 |
Bermuda (TJW Hamilton),[10] Bulgaria (Rodno R., Sofia), Guatemala (TGW La Voz de Guatemala, Guatemala City), Malaysia (KLAWS, Kuala Lumpur), Saint Pierre and Miquelon (R. Club), Tunisia (Tunis Kasbah), VN: Cochinchina (FZS Saigon)
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1931 |
Kazakh SSR (RV60 Alma-Ata), Madagascar (R. Tananarive), Samoa (5ZA Apia), Tajik SSR (RV47 Stalinabad), Vatican City (Vatican R.)
|
1932 |
Southern Rhodesia (ZEA Salisbury)
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1933 |
Curaçao (CUROM Willemstad), Macau (CQN/CRY-9), Mozambique (LM Radio, Lourenço Marques), Panama (HPJ5 R. Tembleque, Panama City), Spanish Morocco (EAJ-21 Melilla)
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1934 |
French Polynesia (FO8AA R. Club Oceanien, Papeete), Mongolia (R. Ulaanbaatar), Nicaragua (YNLF Managua), Tenerife (EAJ-43 R. Club Tenerife, Santa Cruz)
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1935 |
British Guiana (VP3BG Georgetown > ZFY), Dutch Guiana (AVROS, Paramaribo), Ethiopia (R. Addis Ababa), Fiji (ZJV Suva), French Equatorial Africa [AEF]/Congo (R. Club Brazzaville), Haiti (HHK Port-au-Prince), Hyderabad (VUV Deccan R.), Leeward Islands (VP2LO Caribbean Broadcasting Service, Basseterre > ZIZ), Mysore (VU7MC Ākāśavāṇī), Papua (4PM Port Moresby)[11]
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1936 |
Bahamas (ZNS Nassau), Botswana (ZNB Mafeking), Iraq (R. Baghdad), Korea, North (JBBK Heijō), Las Palmas (EAJ-50 R. Las Palmas), Palestine (PBS, Jerusalem/Ramallah), Tyva (R. Kyzyl)[12]
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1937 |
Angola (CR6AA Lobito),[13] Belgian Congo (OQ2AA R. Léo, Léopoldville), British Honduras (ZIK-2 Belize), Guadeloupe (R. Guadeloupe), Martinique (R. Martinique), New Caledonia (FK8AA Nouméa)
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1938 |
Albania (R. Tirana), Kirghiz SSR (RV6 Frunze; wired earlier), Lebanon (R. Levant), Libya (ITR Tripoli), Liechtenstein (R. Liechtenstein), Italian Somaliland (R. Mogadiscio)
|
1939 |
Andorra (R. Andorra), Bangladesh (All India Radio, Dhaka), Baroda (Baroda), French West Africa [AOF]/Senegal (R. AOF, Dakar), Jamaica (VP5PZ Kingston)[14]
|
1940 |
Bahrain (R. Bahrain > Arabic 1955), Gold Coast (ZOY Accra; wired 1935), Iran (R. Tehran), South Yemen (ZNR Aden R. > 1954), Sudan (R. Omdurman)
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1941 |
AEF: French Cameroons (R. Douala), Northern Rhodesia (R. Lusaka), Palau (JRAK Koror), Xinjiang (R. Dihua; wired 1935),[15] YU: Macedonia (R. Skoplje)
|
1942 |
American Samoa (WVUV Leone), Falkland Islands (Falklands R.), Greenland (Grønlands R., Godthåb), Syria (R. Damas)
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1943 |
British Somaliland (R. Hargeisa), French Somaliland (R. Djibouti), Monaco (R. Monte Carlo), Travancore (Thiruvananthapuram)
|
1944 |
Gilbert and Ellice Islands (WXLF Tarawa), Guam (WXLI Agana), New Hebrides (WVUR Espiritu Santo), Solomon Islands (WVUQ Guadalcanal), Northern Mariana Islands (WXLD Saipan), YU: Montenegro (R. Cetinje)
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1945 |
YU: Bosnia and Herzegovina (R. Sarajevo)
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1946 |
Cambodia (R. Cambodge), Spanish Guinea (R. Atlántica, Fernando Póo), Yemen (Sana’a R. > 1955)
|
1947 |
Portuguese Guinea (CMQ Bissau), Trinidad and Tobago (R. Trinidad, Port of Spain)
|
1948 |
Portuguese India (R. Goa), Nigeria (R. Nigeria; wired 1935)[16]
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1949 |
AOF: Ivory Coast (R. Abidjan), South-West Africa (SABC via sw), Saudi Arabia (R. Mecca, Jeddah)
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1950 |
Liberia (ELBC Monrovia), Tibet (R. Lhasa),[17] U.S. Virgin Islands (WSTA Charlotte Amalie)
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1951 |
French Guiana (R. Cayenne), Kuwait (R. Kuwait), Laos (RNL, Vientiane), Nepal (R. Nepal, Kathmandu), Tanganyika (Sauti ya Dar es Salaam), Zanzibar (Sauti ya Unguja)[18]
|
1953 |
Cyprus (CyBS, Nicosia; BBC 1948), AOF: Dahomey (R. Cotonou), AOF: French Guinea (R. Conakry), AOF: French Togoland (R. Lomé)
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1954 |
Sarawak (R. Sarawak, Kuching), Windward Islands (WIBS, St. George's, Grenada)[19]
|
1955 |
AEF [SORAFOM]: Chad (R. Tchad, Fort Lamy), North Borneo (R. Sabah, Jesselton), Sierra Leone (SLBS, Freetown; wired 1934)
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1957 |
Brunei (RTB), AOF: French Sudan (R. Soudan, Bamako), AOF: Mauritania (R. Mauritanie, Saint-Louis, Senegal)
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1958 |
AEF: Ubangi-Shari (R. Bangui), Gibraltar (R. Gibraltar), AOF: Niger (R. Niger, Niamey), Uganda (UBS, Kampala)
|
1959 |
AOF: Upper Volta (R. Haute Volta, Ouagadougou), AEF: Gabon (R. Gabon, Libreville)
|
1960 |
New Guinea (VL9BR Rabaul), Ruanda-Urundi (R. Usumbura)
|
1961 |
Comoros (R. Comores, Moroni), Spanish Sahara (EAJ-202/203 R. Sahara, El Aaiún),[20] Tonga (ZCO Nukuʻalofa)
|
1962 |
Gambia (R. Gambia, Bakau), Maldives (Malé R.)
|
1963 |
Barbados (R. Barbados; wired 1935)
|
1964 |
Lesotho (R. Lesotho, Maseru), Malawi (MBC, Blantyre)
|
1965 |
Swaziland (SBS, Mbabane), United Arab Emirates (Voice of the Coast, Sharjah)
|
1968 |
Nauru (NBS)
|
1969 |
Anguilla (R. Anguilla, The Valley)
|
1970 |
Oman (R. Sultanate of Oman, Muscat)
|
1973 |
Bhutan (NYAB, Thimphu)
|
1993 |
San Marino (R. San Marino)
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