1940 in radio

none thumb|Caravan adapted as an ABC mobile studio in 1940 May 2020 1940 radio television music film The year 1940 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history. Events 5 January: FM radio is demonstrated for the Federal Communications Commission in the United States for the first time. 7 January: The BBC Forces Programme begins broadcasting in the United Kingdom; it becomes the most popular channel among civilians at home as well as its primary target audience. 1 February: Radio Nacional de Colombia is launched as Radiodifusora Nacional de ColombiaHJN, la primera emisora del Estado http://www.senalmemoria.gov.co/index.php/home/historias-de-radio/item/84-hjn-antecesora-de-la-radio-p%C3%BAblica Señal Memoria RTVC 2013-09-14 2014-04-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20140419011808/http://www.senalmemoria.gov.co/index.php/home/historias-de-radio/item/84-hjn-antecesora-de-la-radio-p%C3%BAblica dead three years after closure of the country's first state-owned radio station, HJN. 25 February: The Proud Valley is the first known film to have its première on radio when the BBC broadcasts a 60-minute version.Stephen Bourne Black in the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and Television 2nd https://books.google.com/books?id=0N1Ou7V5IJUC&pg=PA28 2001 A. & C. Black 978-0-8264-5539-0 28 23 March: Antisemitic Member of Parliament (United Kingdom) Archibald Maule Ramsay uses a Parliamentary question to set out the times and frequency of nightly broadcasts by the 'New British Broadcasting Service', a Nazi propaganda radio station broadcasting from Germany.Hansard, Oral Questions, HC Deb 20 March 1940 vol 358 cc1970-1. Richard Griffiths Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British Anti-semitism, 1939-1940 London Constable 1998 978-0-09-467920-7 9 April (7.30 pm): During the German invasion of Norway as part of Operation Weserübung, Vidkun Quisling proclaims a new collaborationist regime on the national radio station NRK. 10 May (9.00 pm): Neville Chamberlain makes the first public announcement of his resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and his replacement by Winston Churchill, on the BBC Home Service. 14 May: BBC reporter Charles Gardner working in Reims incorporates the live sounds of a German air raid in a broadcast report.Edward Stourton (journalist) Edward Stourton Auntie's War: the BBC during the Second World War London Doubleday 2017 978-0-857-52332-7 26 May: Fireside chat by the President of the United States: On National Defense. 2 June: British Secretary of State for War Anthony Eden gives a radio address claiming success of the Dunkirk evacuation.http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1940/1940-06-02a.html The Battle of the Ports ibiblio 2015-12-11Cerutti Joseph 1940-06-03 Four-Fifths of British Saved, Eden Asserts Chicago Daily Tribune 1 5 June: Yorkshire-born novelist and playwright J. B. Priestley broadcasts his first Sunday evening radio Postscript, "An excursion to hell", on the BBC Home Service, marking the role of the pleasure steamers in the Dunkirk evacuation, just completed. 18 June General Charles de Gaulle, de facto leader of the Free French Forces in World War II, uses the airwaves of the BBC to make his Appeal of 18 June from London to the French people for resistance to the Nazi German occupation of France. Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, repeats his "This was their finest hour" speech, made earlier to the House of Commons, on the BBC Home Service. 14 July: The BBC Home Service 9.00 pm news bulletin includes a vivid account of an air battle over the English Channel recorded live the previous day by reporter Charles Gardner.News Report - Air Battle off Dover https://www.bbc.co.uk/videos/ckvv1dqn1k1o BBC 2020-04-18 The bulletin is preceded by a speech by Churchill, "The War of the Unknown Warriorsˮ,https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/churchill-recordings-speeches-memoirs/ Hillsdale College The Churchill Project Churchill Recordings: Speeches and Memoirs Ronald I. Cohen 2016-11-18 2020-04-18 and followed by J. B. Priestley's Postscript describing the seaside resort of Margate in wartime.https://specialcollectionsbradford.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/postscript-14-july-1940/ Postscript 14 July 1940 2010-07-14 Alison Cullingford Special Collections – University of Bradford 2020-04-18 19 July: Adolf Hitler makes a peace appeal ("appeal to reason") to Britain in an address to the Reichstag, broadcast simultaneously in English translation by Paul Schmidt.Paul Schmidt Hitler's Interpreter 1951 London Heinemann BBC German-language broadcaster Sefton Delmer unofficially rejects it at onceSefton Delmer Black Boomerang and Lord Halifax, British foreign minister, flatly rejects peace terms in a broadcast reply on 22 July. October: The evacuated BBC Radio Variety Department relocates to Bangor in north Wales from where it will broadcast until 1943. 15 October: Seven staff are killed when an attempt to eject a delayed-action German bomb from Broadcasting House in London fails.https://news.bbc.co.uk/aboutbbcnews/spl/hi/history/noflash/html/1940s.stm About BBC News War presents new challenges BBC 2019-12-02 30 October: Marshal Pétain makes a broadcast to the French people stating "I enter, today, into the way of collaboration" ("J'entre aujourd'hui dans la voie de la collaboration...").https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/28011 Allocution Radiodiffusée [Broadcast Speech] Imperial War Museums UK 2025-07-27 29 December: Fireside chat: On National Security. Debuts 7 January: Gene Autry's Melody Ranch debuts on CBS.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. 28 January: Beat the Band debuts on NBC.Dunning, John. (1976). Tune in Yesterday: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, 1925-1976. Prentice-Hall, Inc. 0-13-932616-2. 5 February: Amanda of Honeymoon Hill debuts on NBC Blue. 11 February: The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street debuts on NBC Blue. 12 February: The Adventures of Superman (1940–1951) debuts on WOR.Dunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-507678-3. 29 February: Welsh Rarebit, broadcast by the BBC from its Cardiff studio (until 1944 and then from 1948 until 1952)John Davies Broadcasting and the BBC in Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=R7kVAQAAMAAJ 1994 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1273-5 132 18 March: Light of the World debuts on NBC Red. 23 March: Truth or Consequences debuts on CBS. 21 April: Take It or Leave It makes its debut on CBS Radio in the United States, with Bob Hawk as host. 29 April: The Bell Telephone Hour debuts on NBC Red. 23 June: Music While You Work debuts on the BBC Forces Programme.http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/mwyw.htm Music While You Work whirligig-tv 2011-01-11 24 June: The Burl Ives Show debuts on NBC. 3 July: The Abbott and Costello Show debuts on NBC. 29 July: Duffy's Tavern first broadcast as part of the Forecast audition series on CBS. It returns as a regular series 1 March 1941. 4 August: Crime Doctor debuts on CBS. 1 November: Unlimited Horizons debuts on NBC. 9 December: Can You Top This? debuts on WOR (AM). 16 December: Charlie and Jessie debuts on CBS. 29 December: Deadline Dramas debuts on NBC. Closings 19 January: Brenda Curtis ends its run on network radio (CBS). 19 January: Doc Barclay's Daughters ends its run on network radio (CBS). 12 February: Author, Author ends its run on network radio (Mutual). 15 March: Betty and Bob ends its run on network radio NBC. 22 March: The Affairs of Anthony ends its run on network radio (Blue Network). 23 March: Arch Oboler's Plays ends its run on network radio (NBC). 27 April: Art for Your Sake ends its run on network radio (NBC). 1 May: Avalon Time ends its run on network radio (NBC). 4 June: Brenthouse ends its run on network radio (Blue Network). 19 July: Caroline's Golden Store ends its run on network radio (CBS). 19 July: The Carters of Elm Street ends its run on network radio (Mutual). 27 September: The Dinah Shore Show ends its run on network radio (Blue Network). 7 October: Adventures in Reading ends its run on network radio. 19 October: Renfrew of the Mounted ends its run on network radio (CBS). Births 1 April: Annie Nightingale, British radio music presenter 10 April: Gloria Hunniford, Northern Irish broadcast presenter 21 May: Ronan O'Rahilly, Irish-born media entrepreneur (died 2020) 5 June: David Brudnoy, popular talk radio host in Boston, Massachusetts from 1976 (died 2004) 11 July: Tommy Vance, British radio broadcaster (died 2005) 17 July: Tim Brooke-Taylor, British broadcast comedy performer (died 2020) 24 September: Barbara Birdfeather, American radio DJ (died 2009)Mug Shots; Who's who in the New Earth Acton Jay World Publishing Company 1972 9780529045133 University of Michigan 21 LeMond Alan Hodges Parkerhttps://variety.com/2009/scene/people-news/dj-barbara-birdfeather-dies-at-69-1118003038/ Variety DJ Barbara Birdfeather dies at 69 April 30, 2009 9 October: John Lennon, English musician, radio personality and member of The Beatles (murdered 1980) 13 November: Wally K. Daly, British radio scriptwriter (died 2020) Dickie Arbiter, British royal broadcast presenter Deaths 5 March: Maxine Elliott, US actress and businesswoman, former co-owner of the Maxine Elliott's Theatre, 72Diana Forbes-Robertson My aunt Maxine: the story of Maxine Elliott https://archive.org/details/myauntmaxinestor00forb registration 1964 Viking Press 9 April: Mrs. Patrick Campbell, English actress, 72Mrs. Campbell, 75, Famous Actress https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0E1FF93E54117A93C3A8178FD85F448485F9 Mrs. Patrick Campbell, famous actress, died last night in Pau, according to word received here to day. She had taken leading roles in plays of Shakespeare, Shaw and Barrie, and on several occasions had toured America. The New York Times 11 April 1940 29 June 2008 9 August: Alessandro Bonci, Italian tenor, 70Alessandro Bonci, Lyric Tenor, Dies. Singer, Known For His Perfect Technique, First Heard Here In 1906, Had One Teacher. Compared With Caruso Joined Metropolitan in 1908 After Popularity Had Made Him Center of Opera War https://www.nytimes.com/1940/08/11/archives/alessandro-bonci-lyric-tenor-dies-singer-known-for-his-perfect.html The New York Times 11 August 1940 30 October: Hilda Matheson, pioneering British radio talks producer, 52 (Graves' disease)Hunter Fred Matheson, Hilda (1888–1940) http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/49198 27 June 2016 London, England May 2012 10.1093/ref:odnb/49198 subscription 23 November: Billy Jones, US singer, known for The Happiness Boys, 51 (heart attack)Frank Hoffmann B Lee Cooper Tim Gracyk Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895-1925 https://books.google.com/books?id=q4mXh7krTxkC&pg=PA159 12 November 2012 Routledge 978-1-136-59229-4 159 See also List of the initial commercial FM station assignments issued by the Federal Communications Commission on October 31, 1940 References Category:Radio by year