1923 in radio

none thumb | right September 2026 1923 radio music film 1923 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1923. Events 1 January – In the United States the American football Rose Bowl Game is broadcast for the first time, on Los Angeles station KHJ. 4 January – The first network broadcast is made when WEAF in New York City and WNAC in Boston simultaneously broadcast a saxophone solo.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. 8 January – 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 – The United Kingdom Postmaster General grants the BBC a licence to broadcast. 20 January – Inauguration of Paris PTT, a station organized by and broadcasting from the École supérieure des postes et télégraphes (the French post office's higher educational institute of engineering). 8 February – 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.Toronto Star 9 February 1923 12 Albert, Norman Conacher Scored Six for North TorontoKitchen Paul Win, Tie or Wrangle: The Inside Story of the Old Ottawa Senators - 1883–1935 Penumbra Press Manotick, Ontario 246 2008 978-1-897323-46-5 13 March – Production of the first radio set incorporating a loudspeaker. All previously produced sets have required the use of headphones.June 2023 14 March – 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.http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/index3.html?url=http%3A//www.broadcasting-history.ca/personalities/personalities.php%3Fid%3D173 Hooper, Albert W. "Bert" The History of Canadian Broadcasting 28 January 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030630/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/index3.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.broadcasting-history.ca%2Fpersonalities%2Fpersonalities.php%3Fid%3D173 4 March 2016 dead 1 April – 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 – The first regular radio broadcasts begin in Czechoslovakia.http://www.radio.cz/en/static/history-of-radio-prague/czech-radio-history Czech Radio history - Radio Prague 1 June – 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 – The Dutch radio manufacturing company Nederlandsche Seintoestellen Fabriek begins regular radio broadcasting in the Netherlands. 28 September – First publication of the BBC listings magazine, Radio Times, in Britain.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 29 October – Regular radio broadcasting in Germany officially begins with the first evening transmission from the Sendestelle Berlin installed at the Vox-Haus in Potsdamer Platz.Radio magazine, Berlin, 1923, vol. 13, page 512Sound recording of the opening announcement (YouTube) de 8 November – First BBC broadcast in WelshSeatter Robert Robinson Nick Broadcasting Britain: 100 years of the BBC 2022 DK London 978-0-2415-6754-8 13 23 November Australia's first licensed radio station, 2SB, begins transmission in Sydney. In Belgium, French-speaking station Radio Bruxelles begins broadcasting (it will change its name to Radio Belgique on 1 January 1924). 2 December – First BBC broadcast in Gaelic 31 December KDKA in Pittsburgh conducts the first transcontinental voice broadcast with a station in Manchester, England.Today in Pittsburgh History http://www.historyorb.com/countries/usa/pennsylvania/pittsburgh HistoryOrb 2012-03-21 The BBC broadcasts the chimes of Big Ben from London for the first time. Debuts 22 March – Hockey Night in Canada is first broadcast on the Toronto Star's private station CFCA. Births 26 January – Patricia Hughes, English continuity announcer (died 2013) 2 March – Jean Metcalfe, English radio broadcaster (died 2000) 9 May – Johnny Grant, American radio host and producer (died 2008) 10 October – Nicholas Parsons, British entertainer (died 2020) 21 November – Margaret Lyons, born Keiko Margaret Inouye, Canadian broadcast executive (died 2019) 22 December – John Ebdon, British radio broadcaster, Graecophile, author and director of the London Planetarium (died 2005) 25 December – Gordon Baxter, American radio personality, author and columnist (died 2005) References Category:Radio by year