1904 in radio

none thumb | right | alt=An old photograph of a series of small buildings resembling shacks. In the background is one of the legs of the Eiffel Tower | A small radio station installed at the base of the Eiffel Tower in 1904. Station was demolished in 1908 and replaced with an underground station in a square well 1904 radio music film The year 1904 in radio involved some significant events. Events 7 January (with effect from 1 February) – The Marconi Company establishes "CQD" as one of the first international maritime radio distress signals.Radio in History On This Day https://www.onthisday.com/literature/radio 2019-10-22 24 May – The United States Patent Office awards Marconi a patent for a "Wireless signaling system".760463. 11 October – Brazilian priest and researcher Roberto Landell de Moura is awarded a patent by the United States Patent Office for a "Wave-transmitter".771917 16 November – English electrical engineer John Ambrose Fleming, working for Marconi, is awarded a United States patent for the Fleming valve, the first thermionic vacuum tube, a two-electrode diode, which he calls the oscillation valve.803684. First radio transmission of music, at Graz, Austria.Radio/Broadcasting Timeline CBN History WCBN http://www.wcbn.org/history/wcbntime.html 2019-10-22 2022-03-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20220301024429/http://www.wcbn.org/history/wcbntime.html deadOctober 2019 Births 5 January – Anona Winn, Australian-born British broadcasting personality (d. 1994) 15 January – Charles Hill, British physician, medical and broadcast executive, politician and "The Radio Doctor" (d. 1989) 23 February – William L. Shirer, American war correspondent (d. 1993) 8 May – John Snagge, English radio newsreader (d. 1996) 24 May – Sefton Delmer, German-born British propaganda radio broadcaster (d. 1979) 14 August – Lindley Fraser, Scottish-born academic economist and broadcaster (d. 1963) 27 October – Les Mitchel, American radio and film producer, director and actor (d. 1975)Armstrong, Alice Catt (1950). Who's Who in Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA: Who's Who Historical Society. p. 145. 0508-6930.Obituaries: Les Mitchel January 22, 1975 Variety 94 1401273197 24 November – Pegeen Fitzgerald, American radio talk-show host (both alone and with her husband, Ed) on WOR and WJZ in New York CityFlint Peter B. Pegeen Fitzgerald, 78, Radio Host Of Family-Style Talk Show, Dies https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/31/obituaries/pegeen-fitzgerald-78-radio-host-of-family-style-talk-show-dies.html 11 April 2016 The New York Times January 31, 1989 and Norcatur, Kansas (d. 1989)Pegeen Fitzgerald Radio Television Mirror March 1951 35 4 80 https://archive.org/stream/radiotel00macf#page/n316/mode/1up 9 April 2016 References Category:1900s in radio Category:1904 in mass media Category:Radio by year