1926 in radio

The year 1926 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.

List of years in radio (table)
In television
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929

Events
  • 1 January – 2RN, the first radio broadcasting station in the Irish Free State, goes on air.[1]
  • 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.[2]
  • 18 April – The Polskie Radio company begins regular broadcasts from Warsaw, Poland.
  • 4 May – The British Broadcasting Company broadcasts five news bulletins a day as no newspapers are being published due to the 1926 United Kingdom general strike.
  • 6 May – First radio broadcast of a complete opera – Attilio Parelli's I dispettosi amanti – by the Milan station of the Unione Radiofonica Italiana (URI).
  • 15 May
    • American Telephone & Telegraph establishes the Broadcasting Company of America; containing WCAP in Washington, D.C., WEAF in New York, and the mini-network between both stations.
    • Radio Zagreb, the first radio station in southeastern Europe, begins broadcasting.
  • 29 May
  • 12 June – Radio Kaunas begins regular broadcasting in Lithuania.
  • 1 July – American Telephone & Telegraph exits the station ownership realm, selling off WEAF, WCAP, and their mini-network, to RCA. The latter station is merged into time-share WRC (AM) and takes the latter stations' callsign.
  • 13 September – Formation of the National Broadcasting Company by RCA is announced in newspaper advertisements around the country.
  • 7 October – The British Broadcasting Company begins broadcasting a weekly service of Choral Evensong, with the first recorded service being held in Westminster Abbey. As of 2018, Choral Evensong has been running for 92 years, making it the longest-running regular outside broadcast.
  • 10 November – Unión Radio takes over station EAJ-1 Radio Barcelona, laying the foundation for the creation of Spain's first national radio network.
  • 14 November – The first Geneva Frequency Plan comes into force, halving the number of medium wave frequencies available to countries in Europe.[3]
  • 18 December – Regular radio broadcasting begins in Estonia.
  • 24 December – The first singing jingle commercial is heard on WCCO, Minneapolis, Minnesota.[4]

Debuts
  • 12 January – Sam 'n' Henry debuts on WGN in Chicago, Illinois.[4] Two years later, the creators of the show, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, leave and start the similar show Amos 'n' Andy.
  • 26 February – 1150 AM returns to the air, this time as WJBO in New Orleans.
  • 1 November – Radio Belgique (1924–30) broadcasts the first edition of Le Journal Parlé: "All the world's and all the day's news in thirty minutes".[5]
  • 26 November – The National Broadcasting Company commences operations on what will later become the NBC Red Network, composed of AT&T's WEAF-WCAP mini-network.
  • 13 December – WWVA at Wheeling, West Virginia signs on at 2A.M. from owner John Stroebel's residence.

Births
  • 9 March – Joe Franklin, American broadcast media personality (died 2015)
  • 19 May – David Jacobs, British broadcast presenter (died 2013)
  • 23 May – Desmond Carrington, English disc jockey and actor (died 2017)
  • 22 June – Ray Szmanda, American radio and television announcer (d. 2018)
  • 30 September – Dave Hunt, American Christian apologist and radio commentator (died 2013)
  • 31 October – Jimmy Savile, English disc jockey, television presenter, philanthropist and serial sex offender (died 2011)
  • 14 November – Tom Hatten, American broadcast media personality (died 2019)

References
  1. RTÉ Libraries and Archives: History of RTÉ
  2. "The BBC Radio Panic, 1926". Museum of Hoaxes. Archived from the original on 2015-01-03. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
  3. Radio Rewind
  4. 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.
  5. "Le Journal Parlé fête ses 80 ans". Cybercommunauté de la Communauté française. Retrieved 2019-11-06.


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