1923 in radio
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1923 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1923.
Events
- 1 January â In the United States the American football Rose Bowl Game is broadcast for the first time, on Los Angeles station KHJ.
- 4 January â The first network broadcast is made when WEAF in New York City and WNAC in Boston simultaneously broadcast a saxophone solo.[1]
- 8 January â First outside broadcast by the British Broadcasting Company: a British National Opera Company production of The Magic Flute from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
- 18 January â The United Kingdom Postmaster General grants the BBC a licence to broadcast.
- 20 January â Inauguration of Paris PTT, a station organized by and broadcasting from the Ãcole supérieure des postes et télégraphes (the French post office's higher educational institute of engineering).
- 8 February â Norman Albert calls the first live broadcast of an ice hockey game, the third period of an Ontario Hockey League Intermediate playoff game, on Toronto radio station CFCA.[2][3]
- 13 March â Production of the first radio set incorporating a loudspeaker. All previously produced sets have required the use of headphones.[citation needed]
- 14 March â Pete Parker calls the play-by-play of the first ice hockey game ever broadcast on the radio in its entirety, between the Regina Capitals and the Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Canada Hockey League.[4]
- 1 April â In Vienna the Czeija & Nissl electrical company begins test transmissions from its premises in co-operation with a technical high school, the Technisches Gewerbemusem. This marks the start of radio broadcasting in Austria.
- 18 May â The first regular radio broadcasts begin in Czechoslovakia.[5]
- 1 June â The publicly owned Canadian National Railways establishes the CNR Radio network to supply programming on its fleet of passenger cars; it is the first national network in North America and precursor to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
- 21 July â The Dutch radio manufacturing company Nederlandsche Seintoestellen Fabriek begins regular radio broadcasting in the Netherlands.
- 28 September â First publication of the BBC listings magazine, Radio Times, in Britain.[6]
- 29 October â Regular radio broadcasting in Germany officially begins with the first evening transmission from the Sendestelle Berlin installed at the Vox-Haus in Potsdamer Platz.[7][8]
- 8 November â First BBC broadcast in Welsh[9]
- 13 November â Australia's first licensed radio station, 2SB, begins transmission in Sydney.
- 23 November â In Belgium, French-speaking station Radio Bruxelles begins broadcasting (it will change its name to Radio Belgique on 1 January 1924).
- 2 December â First BBC broadcast in Gaelic[9]
- 31 December
- KDKA in Pittsburgh conducts the first transcontinental voice broadcast with a station in Manchester, England.[10]
- The BBC broadcasts the chimes of Big Ben from London for the first time.[6]
Debuts
- 22 March â Hockey Night in Canada is first broadcast on the Toronto Star's private station CFCA.
Births
- 26 January â Patricia Hughes, English continuity announcer (died 2013)
- 2 March â Jean Metcalfe, English radio broadcaster (died 2000)
- 9 May â Johnny Grant, American radio host and producer (died 2008)
- 10 October â Nicholas Parsons, British entertainer (died 2020)
- 21 November â Margaret Lyons, born Keiko Margaret Inouye, Canadian broadcast executive (died 2019)
- 22 December â John Ebdon, British radio broadcaster, Graecophile, author and director of the London Planetarium (died 2005)
- 25 December â Gordon Baxter, American radio personality, author and columnist (died 2005)