19 February –
Ed Wynn becomes the first big
vaudeville star to join radio. The first broadcast is Wynn's The Perfect Fool and the station is
WJZ,
New York. This is also the first time in the world that a radio show is broadcast before a studio audience.[2]
10 March – In the United States,
Variety magazine prints as its front-page headline "Radio Sweeping Country - 1,000,000 Sets in Use".
19 March – Broadcasting from the
Shukhov Tower in Moscow begins with a concert of Russian music.
11 May – Station
2LO becomes the second radio station to broadcast regularly in the United Kingdom, operating from
Marconi House in London, initially for one hour a day. The first radio sports commentary in Britain is made on the station when
Arthur Burrows describes a
boxing match between
Ted "Kid" Lewis and
Georges Carpentier at
Olympia. No further sports broadcasts are made in the country until 1927 due to pressure from newspapers.[4]
28 May – The
Detroit News Orchestra, the world's first
radio orchestra (a symphonic ensemble organized specifically to play on radio), begins broadcasting from radio station
WWJ in
Detroit, Michigan.[7]
21 July – A limited commercial license is issued for operating radio station
WIAE, in
Vinton, Iowa, to station manager Marie Zimmerman, making WIAE the first radio station owned and operated by a woman.[8]
22 August – The first national wireless exhibition is held at the
Champ de Mars in
Paris.[9]
7 October – Speaking on radio station
2LO, the
Prince of Wales becomes the first member of the British royal family to make a public broadcast.[13]
6 November – The privately owned French radio station
Radiola begins regular transmissions.[9]
14 November – London station 2LO transfers to the
British Broadcasting Company and transmits its first two
news bulletins, each read twice ("once quickly and once slowly" – to determine listener reaction).[14]
15 November – The British Broadcasting Company opens its stations in Birmingham (
5IT) and Manchester (
2ZY).[citation needed]
4 December – A broadcasting "music ensemble" is formed in
Pittsburgh by that city's
KDKA; it will be known as the KDKA Orchestra.[citation needed]
Walter Camp's "Daily Dozen" exercise regimen is first broadcast in the United States.
Births
6 February –
Denis Norden, English comedy scriptwriter and broadcast personality (died
2018)
^Emery, Walter Byron (1969). National and international systems of broadcasting: their history, operation and control. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. p. 382.
^Thérien, Robert (2003). L'histoire de l'enregistrement sonore au Québec et dans le monde, 1878–1950. Quebec: Presses Université Laval. p. 108.
ISBN9782763779331.
^Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN0-14-102715-0.
19 February –
Ed Wynn becomes the first big
vaudeville star to join radio. The first broadcast is Wynn's The Perfect Fool and the station is
WJZ,
New York. This is also the first time in the world that a radio show is broadcast before a studio audience.[2]
10 March – In the United States,
Variety magazine prints as its front-page headline "Radio Sweeping Country - 1,000,000 Sets in Use".
19 March – Broadcasting from the
Shukhov Tower in Moscow begins with a concert of Russian music.
11 May – Station
2LO becomes the second radio station to broadcast regularly in the United Kingdom, operating from
Marconi House in London, initially for one hour a day. The first radio sports commentary in Britain is made on the station when
Arthur Burrows describes a
boxing match between
Ted "Kid" Lewis and
Georges Carpentier at
Olympia. No further sports broadcasts are made in the country until 1927 due to pressure from newspapers.[4]
28 May – The
Detroit News Orchestra, the world's first
radio orchestra (a symphonic ensemble organized specifically to play on radio), begins broadcasting from radio station
WWJ in
Detroit, Michigan.[7]
21 July – A limited commercial license is issued for operating radio station
WIAE, in
Vinton, Iowa, to station manager Marie Zimmerman, making WIAE the first radio station owned and operated by a woman.[8]
22 August – The first national wireless exhibition is held at the
Champ de Mars in
Paris.[9]
7 October – Speaking on radio station
2LO, the
Prince of Wales becomes the first member of the British royal family to make a public broadcast.[13]
6 November – The privately owned French radio station
Radiola begins regular transmissions.[9]
14 November – London station 2LO transfers to the
British Broadcasting Company and transmits its first two
news bulletins, each read twice ("once quickly and once slowly" – to determine listener reaction).[14]
15 November – The British Broadcasting Company opens its stations in Birmingham (
5IT) and Manchester (
2ZY).[citation needed]
4 December – A broadcasting "music ensemble" is formed in
Pittsburgh by that city's
KDKA; it will be known as the KDKA Orchestra.[citation needed]
Walter Camp's "Daily Dozen" exercise regimen is first broadcast in the United States.
Births
6 February –
Denis Norden, English comedy scriptwriter and broadcast personality (died
2018)
^Emery, Walter Byron (1969). National and international systems of broadcasting: their history, operation and control. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. p. 382.
^Thérien, Robert (2003). L'histoire de l'enregistrement sonore au Québec et dans le monde, 1878–1950. Quebec: Presses Université Laval. p. 108.
ISBN9782763779331.
^Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN0-14-102715-0.