1922 in radio

1922 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1922.

List of years in radio (table)

Events
  • 6 February – Official inauguration of Radio Tour Eiffel from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, transmitting meteorological bulletins.[1]
  • 8 February – President of the United States, Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
  • 14 February – The world's first regular wireless broadcasts for entertainment, made by Peter Eckersley, begin transmission on radio station 2MT from a hut at the Marconi Company laboratories at Writtle near Chelmsford in England. Initially they are for half an hour on Tuesday evenings.
  • 19 February – Ed Wynn becomes the first big vaudeville star to join radio. The first broadcast is Wynn's The Perfect Fool and the station is WJZ, New York. This is also the first time in the world that a radio show is broadcast before a studio audience.[2]
  • 27 February – The first National Radio Conference, led by Herbert Hoover, is held in Washington, D.C.[3]
  • 10 March – In the United States, Variety magazine prints as its front-page headline "Radio Sweeping Country - 1,000,000 Sets in Use".
  • 11 May – Station 2LO becomes the second radio station to broadcast regularly in the United Kingdom, operating from Marconi House in London, initially for one hour a day. The first radio sports commentary in Britain is made on the station when Arthur Burrows describes a boxing match between Ted "Kid" Lewis and Georges Carpentier at Olympia. No further sports broadcasts are made in the country until 1927 due to pressure from newspapers.[4]
  • 28 May – The Detroit News Orchestra, the world's first radio orchestra (a symphonic ensemble organized specifically to play on radio), begins broadcasting from radio station WWJ in Detroit, Michigan.[5]
  • 14 June – Warren G. Harding becomes the first United States president heard live on radio, when he dedicates the Francis Scott Key Memorial over the Baltimore radio station WEAR.
  • 21 July – A limited commercial license is issued for operating radio station WIAE, in Vinton, Iowa, to station manager Marie Zimmerman, making WIAE the first radio station owned and operated by a woman.[6]
  • 22 August – The first national wireless exhibition is held at the Champ de Mars in Paris.[7]
  • 7 September – On the occasion of the centennial celebrations of Brazilian independence, President Epitácio Pessoa of Brazil makes the country's first radio broadcast.[8]
  • 17 September – First radio broadcasts in Russia.[9]
  • 2 October – CKAC, the first French language radio station in North America, launches in Montreal, Quebec.[10]
  • 7 October – Speaking on radio station 2LO, the Prince of Wales becomes the first member of the British royal family to make a public broadcast.[11]
  • 6 November – The privately owned French radio station Radiola begins regular transmissions.[7]
  • 14 November – London station 2LO transfers to the British Broadcasting Company and transmits its first two news bulletins, each read twice ("once quickly and once slowly" – to determine listener reaction).[12]
  • 15 November – The British Broadcasting Company opens its stations in Birmingham (5IT) and Manchester (2ZY).
  • 4 December – A broadcasting "music ensemble" is formed in Pittsburgh by that city's KDKA; it will be known as the KDKA Orchestra.
  • Walter Camp's "Daily Dozen" exercise regimen is first broadcast in the United States.

Debuts

Births
  • 6 February – Denis Norden, English comedy scriptwriter and broadcast personality (died 2018)
  • 23 April – Jack May, English actor (died 1997)
  • 29 May – Mae Brussell, American radio personality and conspiracy theorist (died 1988)
  • 10 June – Bill Kerr, South African-born Australian actor (died 2014)
  • 17 July – Sid Collins, American motor-racing broadcaster (died 1977)
  • 16 August – James Casey, English variety artist and radio comedy scriptwriter and producer (died 2011)
  • 5 October – Janie Joplin, American radio announcer and voice-over artist (died 2007)

See also

References
  1. Wieviorka, Olivier; Winock, Michel (2019). Les lieux de l'histoire de France. Place des éditeurs. p. PT303. ISBN 9782262083182.
  2. The Shell Book of Firsts 1983. p. 240.
  4. The Shell Book of Firsts 1983. p. 149.
  5. Detroit News 1922, p. 21.
  6. Von Lackum, Karl C. (14 October 1922). "Vinton Boasts Only Broadcasting Station in U.S. Owned By Woman". Waterloo Evening Courier. Waterloo, Iowa. p. 7.
  7. 100 de radio: Les Pionniers de la TSF
  8. Vincent, Jon S. (2003). Culture and customs of Brazil. Greenwood. pp. 101. ISBN 0-313-30495-5.
  9. Emery, Walter Byron (1969). National and international systems of broadcasting: their history, operation and control. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. p. 382.
  10. Thérien, Robert (2003). L'histoire de l'enregistrement sonore au Québec et dans le monde, 1878–1950. Quebec: Presses Université Laval. p. 108. ISBN 9782763779331.
  11. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  12. About BBC News - official site.
  13. "WMAQ ad" (PDF). Broadcasting. 14 April 1947. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  14. On the Air Akron's First Radio Station Crackled to Life in 1922
  15. "WFBR Marks Silver Anniversary on Air" (PDF). Broadcasting. 9 June 1947. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  16. "Widespread Circle Help To Mark WHAM Birthday" (PDF). Broadcasting4. 14 July 1947. Retrieved 3 October 2014.

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