1942 in radio

none December 2009 December 2019 1942 radio television music film The year 1942 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history. Events 1 January – All radio broadcasting in the Netherlands comes under full control of the country's Nazi occupiers. Publication of the only authorized programme guide, De Luistergids, begins. 9 January – Blue Network Company, Inc. is incorporated by RCA in the United States to hold the assets of the NBC Blue Network,Cox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc. 978-0-7864-3848-8. in case NBC loses their case against the FCC in court to maintain ownership of two networks. 29 January – The BBC Forces Programme transmits the first edition of Desert Island Discs, presented by Roy Plomley. Vic Oliver is the first castaway.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 The series will still be running (on BBC Radio 4) more than 75 years later. 23 February – Fireside chat by the President of the United States: On Progress of the War. 24 February – The Voice of America begins short-wave radio broadcasting using CBS and NBC transmitters. Its first programmes are in German. 27 February – James Stanley Hey, a British Army research officer, helps develop radio astronomy, when he discovers that the sun emits radio waves. 6 March – U.S.-born Nazi propaganda broadcaster Jane Anderson ("The Georgia Peach") gives a talk from Berlin which reveals that elite Germans are still dining in luxury despite widespread food insecurity in the country, which is successfully used by U.S. counterpropaganda,https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3o5fAAAAIBAJ&pg=1334,5972735&dq=jane-anderson&hl=en Nazi Announcer Spills Beans Lewiston Morning Tribune 26 March 1942 2013-08-24http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,777683,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20101014184710/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,777683,00.html dead 2010-10-14 Germany: Sweets & Cookies Time 6 April 1942 leading to her being dropped from the airwaves. 28 April – Fireside chat: On Our National Economic Policy. 6 May – The Radio Doctor (Charles Hill) makes his first BBC Radio broadcast giving avuncular health care advice to British civilians. 19 May – A subsequently famous BBC outside broadcast recording captures the song of the common nightingale with the sound of Royal Air Force Lancaster bombers flying overhead.Nightingales sing with RAF bombers overhead https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/magazine-35874257 BBC News 24 March 2016 26 July – Gene Autry takes his oath of office to join the United States Army during the broadcast of Gene Autry's Melody Ranch.French, Jack; Siegel, David S. (eds.) (2014). "Radio Rides the Range: A Reference Guide to Western Drama on the Air, 1929-1967. McFarland & Company, Inc. 978-0-7864-7146-1. pp. 76. September – The Brains Trust first broadcast under this title on BBC Home Service radio in the United Kingdom.http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/brainstrust.htm The Brains Trust Radio Days 6 October 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20101008172200/http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/brainstrust.htm 8 October 2010 live 7 September – Fireside chat: On Inflation and Progress of the War. 12 October – Fireside chat: Report on the Home Front. 8 November – Aspidistra medium wave radio transmitter goes into service in the south of England for black propaganda and military deception purposes against Nazi Germany. Debuts 2 January: Elsa Maxwell's Party Line debuts on the Blue Network.dunningota 231 24 January: Abie’s Irish Rose debuts on NBC.Dunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-507678-3. 3 February: Red Ryder debuts on NBC Blue West Coast. 1 March: KBON, Omaha, Nebraska, a Mutual affiliate, begins broadcasting on 1400 kHz with 250 W power (full-time).KBON Goes MBS March 1 https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/40s/1942/Billboard%201942-02-28.pdf 8 February 2015 Billboard February 28, 1942 4 March: Junior Miss (1942–1954) debuts on CBS. 22 March: The Better Half debuts on Mutual. 3 April: People Are Funny debuts on NBC. 5 April: The Army Hour debuts on NBC. 13 April: Are You a Genius? debuts on CBS. 19 April: WJLD, Bessemer, Alabama, begins broadcasting on 1400 kHz with 250 W power.Alicoate, Jack, Ed. (1944). The 1949 Radio Annual. Radio Daily Corp. P. 347. 1 May: In Person, Dinah Shore debuts on the Blue Network. 6 May: The Radio Doctor (Charles Hill) makes his first BBC radio broadcast giving health care advice. 9 June: Cheers from the Camps debuts on CBS. 17 June: Suspense debuts on CBS following its 1940 pilot on Forecast. 18 July: Chips Davis, Commando debuts on CBS. 30 July: Stage Door Canteen debuts on CBS. 2 August: Hop Harrigan debuts on ABC. 3 August: An American in England debuts on CBS. 28 August: Canteen Girl debuts on NBC.Radio Roundup https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105376229/the-morning-call/ July 11, 2022 The Morning Call August 25, 1942 New Jersey, Paterson 10 Newspapers.com 6 September: Mayor of the Town debuts on NBC. 13 September: Radio Reader's Digest debuts on CBS.dunningota 565 20 September: The Electric Hour debuts on CBS. 2 October: The Cisco Kid debuts on Mutual. 7 October: The Man Behind the Gun debuts on CBS.dunningota 430-431 10 October: Campana Serenade debuts on NBC. 14 October: Cresta Blanca Carnival debuts on CBS.dunningota 183-184 20 October: Songs by Sinatra debuts on CBS.Young William H. Young Nancy K. Music of the World War II Era 2007 ABC-CLIO, Incorporated 9780313338915 118 https://books.google.com/books?id=8xJr-StwLZsC&dq=%22Songs+by+Sinatra%22&pg=PA118 13 August 2015 31 October: The Bob Hawk Show debuts on CBS. 9 November: Ceiling Unlimited debuts on CBS. Eva Duarte (later Eva Perón, First Lady of Argentina) makes her debut as a radio actress in Muy Bien on Radio El Mundo.Fraser Nicholas Navarro Marysa Marysa Navarro Evita: the Real Life of Eva Perón W.W. Norton & Co. New York 1996 9780393315752 26 Closings (undated) - Harold Teen ends its run on network radio (Mutual).Sies, Luther F. (2014). Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920-1960, 2nd Edition. McFarland & Company, Inc. 978-0-7864-5149-4. pp. 145-146. 3 January: The Bishop and the Gargoyle ends its run on network radio (Blue Network). 3 April: Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt ends its run on network radio (NBC). 26 April: Songs by Dinah Shore ends its run on network radio (NBC-Blue). 26 June: Arnold Grimm's Daughter ends its run on network radio (NBC). 23 August: Great Plays ends its run on network radio (Blue Network). 11 September: The Bartons ends its run on network radio (NBC). 22 September: Cheers from the Camps ends its run on network radio (CBS). 25 September: The Story of Bess Johnson ends its run on network radio (NBC).Cox Jim The Great Radio Soap Operas 2015 McFarland 9781476604145 71–76 https://books.google.com/books?id=d7nwCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA73 en Hilltop House 27 September: Joe and Mabel ends its run on network radio (NBC). 3 November: The Avenger (radio program) ends its run on WHN. 22 December: An American in England ends its run on network radio (CBS). Births 7 August: Garrison Keillor, American public radio host of A Prairie Home Companion. 12 August: David Munrow, English early music performer and presenter (Pied Piper on BBC Radio 3) (suicide 1976). 29 August: Larry Monroe, 29-year veteran with KUT in Austin, Texas (d. 2014).Curtin Kevin Larry Monroe 1942-2014 http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2014-01-17/larry-monroe-1942-2014/ The Austin Chronicle 20 September 2014 20 September: Dan Davis, American radio personality on ESPN Radio. 24 October: Frank Delaney, Irish-born novelist and radio presenter (d. 2017). 11 December: Bud Ballou, American disc jockey and radio personality during the 1960s and 1970s (d. 1977). 24 December: Anthony Clare, Irish-born psychiatrist and BBC radio presenter (d. 2007). 26 December: Emperor Rosko (Mike Pasternak), American disc jockey on both sides of the Atlantic. Bill Brown, New York City television and radio personality (WCBS-FM, WPLJ, WNEW-FM). References Category:Radio by year