1921 in radio
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1921 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1921.
Events
- 3 January â Station 9XM (now WHA), at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, transmits the first spoken weather forecast. The station had been broadcasting weather bulletins in Morse code since 1916.[1]
- 4 March â Text of the speech, given at the U.S. Presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. by Warren G. Harding, is read over KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[2]
- 5 August â First broadcast of a Major League baseball game is aired by KDKA, as the Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 8â5 at Forbes Field.[3]
- 19 September â First commercially licensed radio broadcasting station in the United States, WBZ, is launched by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Springfield, Massachusetts. It is the first broadcasting station to receive a license that explicitly specified operation on the 360 meter (833 kHz) wavelength formally assigned to the broadcasting service by regulations which became effective 1 December 1921.
- 20 September â KDKA and the Pittsburgh Post create the first "news room" and "news department".[4]
- 25 September â The wireless telegraph station in Sofia makes the first public radio broadcast in Bulgaria: the retransmission of a concert from the German station at Nauen.
- 8 October â First broadcast of American football is on the air via KDKA as the University of Pittsburgh defeats West Virginia University at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field.[5]
- 17 November â First radio broadcast in New Zealand is made by University of Otago physics professor Robert Jack.[6]
- 26 November â First public radio broadcast in France, from the Compagnie générale de la télégraphie sans fil (CSF) Sainte-Assise transmitter.[7]
- 27 November â U.S. bandleader Vincent Lopez and his group begin making a series of weekly 90-minute music broadcasts on Westinghouse-owned station WJZ in Newark, New Jersey (later WABC New York).[citation needed]
- 1 December â Effective date, in the U.S., for the first formal establishment of a broadcasting station service. (Limited Commercial license, for operation on 360 (833 kHz) and/or 485 (419) meters.)[8]
- 24 December â First public radio broadcast from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.[9]
Births
- 25 February â Patricia Ryan, English-born American child actress, continues performing on radio until her death (d. 1949)[10]
- 5 March â Charlez ar Gall, Breton-language broadcaster (d. 2010)
- 21 March â Antony Hopkins, British composer, pianist, conductor and music broadcaster (d. 2014)
- 1 April â Steve Race, English pianist-composer and radio presenter (d. 2009)
- 23 May â Humphrey Lyttelton, English jazz trumpeter and radio presenter (d. 2008)
- 19 July â Harold Camping, American religious broadcaster (d. 2013)
- 21 September â Jimmy Young, English singer and broadcaster (d. 2016)
- 19 October â Bern Bennett, American radio and television announcer (d. 2014)
- 24 December â Jimmy Clitheroe, English comic entertainer (d. 1973)