1950 in radio

The year 1950 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.

List of years in radio (table)
In television
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953

Events

Debuts

Programs

Stations

  • 12 February – WPAW Pawtucket, Rhode Island signs on for the first time.
  • 1 March – DZBB, a radio station owned by Republic Broadcasting Systems (later GMA Network) in the Philippines begins broadcasting from its first studios in Calvo Bldg, Bindondo, Manila.
  • 19 April – WTSA Brattleboro, Vermont signs on for the first time.
  • 8 October – WARA Attleboro, Massachusetts signs on for the first time.

Closings

Births

  • 2 February – Libby Purves, English radio presenter.
  • 14 March – Rick Dees, American radio and television personality.
  • 12 May – Jenni Murray, English journalist, presenter of Woman's Hour.
  • 21 May – Marian Finucane, Irish radio presenter (died 2020).
  • 24 September – Alan Colmes, American radio and television talk show host.

Deaths

  • 13 January – Thomas S. "Tommy" Lee, son of pioneering broadcaster Don Lee, of a suicide. His death triggers the sale of the Don Lee Network (a station group including KFRC AM/FM in San Francisco and KHJ AM/FM in Los Angeles) to General Tire, forerunner of RKO General.
  • 26 July – Austin E. Lathrop, owner of Midnight Sun Broadcasting (KFAR, KENI), rail car collision.
  • 2 September – Frank Graham, American announcer for many programs and the star (following Jack Webb) of Jeff Regan, Investigator.[8]

References

  1. Springbok Radio official website
  2. Cox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-3848-8. p. 6.
  3. Dunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3.
  4. Kynaston, David (2007). Austerity Britain 1945–1951. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-0-7475-7985-4.
  5. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  6. "Meet Frank Sinatra". OTRRpedia. Old Time Radio Researchers Group. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  7. Cox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Deaths, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-3848-8.
  8. "Frank Graham" (PDF). Broadcasting. 11 September 1950. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
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