1926 in British radio

none November 2020 November 2020 1926 British radio British television British music This is a list of events from British radio in 1926. Events 16 January – A British Broadcasting Company radio play by Ronald Knox about workers' revolution in London causes a panic among those who have not heard the preliminary announcement that it is a satire on broadcasting.http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_bbc_radio_panic The BBC Radio Panic, 1926 Museum of Hoaxes 2019-11-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20150103085814/http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_bbc_radio_panic 2015-01-03 live 4 May – The British Broadcasting Company broadcasts five news bulletins a day as no newspapers are published due to the general strike. John Reith, the BBC's general manager, resists government attempts to take it over during the strike. Sing as we go: Britain between the wars Simon Heffer Heffer Simon 978-1-529-15264-7 London Hutchinson Heinemann 2023 256-8 4 September – Opening of first Radiolympia show of consumer radio apparatus at Olympia, London. The first mains-powered (AC) radio receiver, the Gambrell Baby Grand, is launched.Jonathan Hill Old Radio Sets Princes Risborough Shire Publications 1993 0-7478-0219-X Shire Album 295 12-14 7 October – The first edition of Choral Evensong is relayed by the British Broadcasting Company from Westminster Abbey; it will still be broadcast regularly in its centenary year as the BBC's longest-running outside broadcast programme.Choral Evensong http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tp7r BBC 2012-07-10https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/6e18bf0863ae4dfca95f0442ae7a882e Radio Times listing BBC Genome Project 2018-07-23 31 December – The British Broadcasting Company is dissolved and its assets transferred to the non-commercial and crown-chartered British Broadcasting Corporation.A Message from the Earl of Clarendon The New B.B.C. – 'A Transition Simple and Efficient.' Radio Times 14 170 31 December 1926 85 https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/0c850a2dd2df49e09afe3229af1acdca?page=5 Births 27 January – Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-born flautist, radio broadcaster, writer and theme tune composer (died 2003) 22 February – Kenneth Williams, comic actor (died 1988) 19 May – David Jacobs, broadcast presenter (died 2013) 23 May – Desmond Carrington, disc jockey and actor (died 2017) 27 August – Pat Coombs, comic stooge (died 2002) 8 September – Ronald Mason, radio drama producer (died 1997) 20 October – Austen Kark, managing director, BBC World Service (died in rail accident 2002) 31 October – Jimmy Savile, disc jockey, broadcast presenter, philanthropist and serial sex offender (died 2011) References Category:Years in British radio Radio