15 February – Clara, Lu & Em, generally regarded as the first daytime network
soap opera, debuts in its morning time slot over the
Blue Network of
NBC Radio in the United States, having originally been a late evening program.
7 March – First transmission of Finnish
Yleisradio's daily Morning Devotions programme.
24 March – A radio variety show is broadcast from a moving train for the first time, when
Belle Baker hosts a show on a train traveling around the
New York area. It is broadcast on the
New York City station
WABC. She talks first about the weather then, about local news regarding home-towns or stations of the train with the radio.
14 May – The
BBC broadcasts its last programmes from the Savoy Hill studios in
London.
15 May – The BBC moves into its new headquarters,
Broadcasting House in London.
29 September – Radio PTT Nord broadcasts from a balloon flying at a height of 2,300 metres above
Lille, France.
20 October –
CBS Radio returns WJSV (modern-day
WFED) in
Alexandria, Virginia to the air, after a three-month period of silence. CBS has purchased the station from namesake James S. Vance, citing the heavy connections existing behind the scenes with Vance and the
Ku Klux Klan. It has operated and programmed WJSV since 1929, unintentionally making CBS a proxy with the Klan. In addition, WJSV is also moved from
Mount Vernon, Virginia to the aforementioned
Washington, D.C. suburb.
30 November – The BBC begins a series of radio broadcasts to mark the 75th birthday of Sir
Edward Elgar.
9 December –
Morton Downey, Jr., controversial and influential American broadcast
talk show host of the 1980s, pioneer of the "
trash talk show" format (died 2001).
^Cox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Deaths, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc.
ISBN978-0-7864-3848-8.
^Barson, Michael, ed. (1988). Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel: The Marx Brothers' Lost Radio Show. Pantheon Books.
ISBN0-679-72036-7.
^Sies, Luther F. (2014). Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920–1960, 2nd Edition. McFarland & Company, Inc.
ISBN978-0-7864-5149-4. pp. 145–146.
15 February – Clara, Lu & Em, generally regarded as the first daytime network
soap opera, debuts in its morning time slot over the
Blue Network of
NBC Radio in the United States, having originally been a late evening program.
7 March – First transmission of Finnish
Yleisradio's daily Morning Devotions programme.
24 March – A radio variety show is broadcast from a moving train for the first time, when
Belle Baker hosts a show on a train traveling around the
New York area. It is broadcast on the
New York City station
WABC. She talks first about the weather then, about local news regarding home-towns or stations of the train with the radio.
14 May – The
BBC broadcasts its last programmes from the Savoy Hill studios in
London.
15 May – The BBC moves into its new headquarters,
Broadcasting House in London.
29 September – Radio PTT Nord broadcasts from a balloon flying at a height of 2,300 metres above
Lille, France.
20 October –
CBS Radio returns WJSV (modern-day
WFED) in
Alexandria, Virginia to the air, after a three-month period of silence. CBS has purchased the station from namesake James S. Vance, citing the heavy connections existing behind the scenes with Vance and the
Ku Klux Klan. It has operated and programmed WJSV since 1929, unintentionally making CBS a proxy with the Klan. In addition, WJSV is also moved from
Mount Vernon, Virginia to the aforementioned
Washington, D.C. suburb.
30 November – The BBC begins a series of radio broadcasts to mark the 75th birthday of Sir
Edward Elgar.
9 December –
Morton Downey, Jr., controversial and influential American broadcast
talk show host of the 1980s, pioneer of the "
trash talk show" format (died 2001).
^Cox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Deaths, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc.
ISBN978-0-7864-3848-8.
^Barson, Michael, ed. (1988). Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel: The Marx Brothers' Lost Radio Show. Pantheon Books.
ISBN0-679-72036-7.
^Sies, Luther F. (2014). Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920–1960, 2nd Edition. McFarland & Company, Inc.
ISBN978-0-7864-5149-4. pp. 145–146.