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1914 In Radio
The year 1914 in radio involved some significant events. Events * 6 October – Edwin Howard Armstrong is granted a United States patent for the regenerative circuit.. Births * 20 January – Roy Plomley, English radio broadcaster (died 1985) * 26 January – Jack de Manio, English radio broadcaster (died 1988) * 25 February – John Arlott, English cricket commentator (died 1991) * 29 April – Deryck Guyler, English actor (died 1999) * 12 May – Howard K. Smith, American journalist and radio reporter (died 2002) * 19 July – Hubert Gregg, English actor, songwriter and broadcaster (died 2004) * 22 July – Charles Régnier, German actor (died 2001) * 2 October – Yuri Levitan, Russian radio announcer (died 1983) * 27 October – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and radio broadcaster (died 1953) * 29 October – Ben Gage, American actor, singer and radio announcer (died 1978) * 25 December – Abelardo Raidi, Venezuelan sportswriter and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Howard Armstrong
Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – February 1, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor, who developed FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. He held 42 patents and received numerous awards, including the first Medal of Honor awarded by the Institute of Radio Engineers (now IEEE), the French Legion of Honor, the 1941 Franklin Medal and the 1942 Edison Medal. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and included in the International Telecommunication Union's roster of great inventors. Armstrong attended Columbia University, and served as a professor there for most of his life. Early life Armstrong was born in the Chelsea district of New York City, the oldest of John and Emily (née Smith) Armstrong's three children. His father began working at a young age at the American branch of the Oxford University Press, which published bibles and standard classical works, eventually advancing to the positio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 In Radio
The year 2004 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history. Events *1 January – Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk's cultural channel MDR Kultur is relaunched as MDR Figaro. *10 and 11 January – Ryan Seacrest succeeds Casey Kasem as host of American Top 40 *5 January – '' The Ed Schultz Show'' is launched. *31 March – Launch of Air America Radio, with affiliates in New York City ( WLIB), Chicago ( WNTD), Los Angeles (KBLA), San Bernardino (KCAA), Portland ( KPOJ), West Palm Beach, Florida ( WJNO), and Minneapolis ( WMNN). *8 April – As part of a series of format changes at Cumulus Media-owned stations in the Quad Cities, KORB (93.5 FM) switches from active rock Active rock is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations across the United States and Canada. Active rock stations play a balance of new hard rock songs with valued classic rock favorites, normally with an emphasis on the harder edge o ... to hot adult contemporary, adopts the for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 In English-language Radio
The year 2006 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting. Events * Quad Cities' radio stations WKBF (1270 AM) and WHTS (98.9 FM), both owned by Mercury Broadcasting but operated by a joint sales agreement with Clear Channel Communications, are sold during the year. The sale of WKBF from Mercury to EMF Broadcasting is completed in late 2005, and in February the format switches from contemporary hit radio (which had been formatted at the frequency since 1987) to formatting Christian music as WKLU. WKBF, which had been broadcasting a progressive talk format, is sold to Quad Cities Media and switches to Christian talk in December. * January 3 – The BJ Shea Morning Experience switches to KISW in Seattle, Washington, from the former FM Talk (now country) station KKWF. * January 21 – Kix Brooks, one half of the country music superstar duo Brooks & Dunn, takes over as host of the long-running "American Country Countdown." He succeeds Bob Kingsley, who had left the progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Hubble
Margaret Elinor Hubble (29 December 1914 – 30 August 2006) was a British radio broadcaster. She was best known as a presenter of ''Woman's Hour'' in the 1950s. Hubble was born in Kent, the youngest of five children of a farmer. She attended a boarding school in Sussex, and joined the commercial radio department at advertising agency Erwin, Wasey & Company in 1938. She joined the Women's Land Army when the Second World War broke out, making use of her agricultural upbringing, but then joined the BBC in 1940 as a secretary, but quickly moved into broadcasting. She became an overseas presentation assistant in 1941, and then chief announcer for the BBC African Service in 1942, presenting '' Forces Favourites'', a request programme in which members of the armed forces abroad, and their families at home, could ask the "compère", as presenters were called, to play their favourite music. There, she helped Jean Metcalfe make her first broadcast. She was the first woman announc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abelardo Raidi
Abelardo Raidi raɪ-dɪ(December 25, 1914 – January 27, 2002) was a Venezuelan sportswriter and radio broadcaster. He was born in Valencia, Carabobo. Raidi began his career as a radio announcer and play-by-play sports broadcaster in several stations in his country. Then, in 1941 he was the official representative of the Venezuela national baseball team which won the championship title in the IV Amateur Baseball World Series held in Havana, Cuba. He later became an accomplished sports journalist in Caracas for almost seven decades, first at '' El Universal'' and later at '' El Nacional'', where he turned in a sports editor and remained for more than 60 years its prestigious and widely read column ''Pantalla de los Jueves'' (Screen on Thursdays), where he also wrote with authority about boxing and golf, among other sports, and interviewed entertainment personalities as Claudia Cardinale, María Félix and Sophia Loren. Also respected as a beauty scout, he was instrumental in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 In Radio
The year 1978 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting. __TOC__ Events * February 8 – Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time. * April 8 – Proceedings of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are broadcast on radio regularly for the first time. * May 6 – Bob Kingsley, producer of the syndicated " American Country Countdown," takes over as host. He replaces Don Bowman, who had hosted for the first 4½ years. Kingsley will helm the program for 27 years. * July – WHTT of Moline, Illinois but with studios in Davenport, Iowa switches call letters to WXLP and changes its format from country to album-oriented rock. The station adopts the nickname "97X." * September 18 – In television, American situation comedy '' WKRP in Cincinnati'' (1978–1982), featuring the misadventures of the staff of a struggling radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. * October 7 – " American Top 40" expands from three to four hours. Several new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Gage
Ben Gage (born Benjamin Austin Gage, October 29, 1914 – April 28, 1978) was an American radio singer and announcer, occasional off-screen film singer dubbing the voice of non-singing actors, and television actor active from 1937 to 1975. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he was married to film star Esther Williams. Early career Gage joined NBC's Hollywood announcing staff in 1937. Later that year, he became the announcer for the Olsen and Johnson radio program. On May 20, 1940, ''Blue Network Varieties'' was launched on the NBC Pacific Blue network. Gage was the singing announcer of the five-day-a-week half-hour program. That same year, he and Mary Jane Barnes were "featured singers" on ''Remember This Song?'', a weekly program also on NBC Pacific Blue. In September 1941, he joined the ''Bob Hope Show'', replacing Bill Goodwin as announcer. During World War II, Gage was a sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Force. He worked with the USAAF's band on ''Soldiers With Wings'' on CBS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 In Radio
The year 1953 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history. Events *1 January – In Ireland Erskine Childers, the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, appoints a new executive council, Comhairle Radio Éireann, to take over day-to-day responsibility for the state broadcasting service. *15 January – Harry Truman becomes the first President of the United States to broadcast his farewell address on radio and television. *19 March – For the first time the Academy Awards ceremony (broadcast annually on radio since 1930) is also carried on television. *3 May – German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle begins regular transmissions. Debuts *1 January – '' Cathy and Elliott Lewis on Stage'' debuts on CBS.Cox, Jim (2008). ''This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . p. 6. *7 January – ''The Crime Files of Flamond'' debuts on Mutual. *15 Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems " Do not go gentle into that good night" and " And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" ''Under Milk Wood''. He also wrote stories and radio broadcasts such as ''A Child's Christmas in Wales'' and '' Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog''. He became widely popular in his lifetime and remained so after his death at the age of 39 in New York City. By then, he had acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged, as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet". Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales, in 1914. In 1931, when he was 16, Thomas, an undistinguished pupil, left school to become a reporter for the ''South Wales Daily Post''. Many of his works appeared in print while he was still a teenager. In 1934, the publication of "Light breaks where no sun shines" caught the attention of the literary world. While living in London, Thomas met Cai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 In Radio
The year 1983 in radio involved some significant events. __TOC__ Events *January 3 – Following its sale to Sconnix Broadcasting, WLLR of East Moline, Illinois debuts at 101.3 FM and moves its studios to Davenport, Iowa. The station carries over a country format, which had been used by its previous owner under the previous call letters WZZC, which had been in place since 1978. The station continues its steady climb in the Quad-Cities Arbitron ratings and eventually becomes the market's top-rated station. *July 2 – "Solid Gold Country," a country gold-formatted program, debuts by the United Stations Programming Network. The original format is a three-hour weekly program featuring interviews by a feature artist and song blocks covering various topics. Host is Stan Martin. This original format will run 18 months, until being reformatted as a daily one-hour program. *August 2 – WHTZ (Z100) in New York City debuts, soon becoming one of the most influential CHR stations in the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Levitan
Yuri Borisovich Levitan (russian: Юрий Борисович Левитан, 2 October 1914 – 4 August 1983) was the primary Soviet radio announcer during and after World War II. He announced on Radio Moscow all major international events in the 1940s–60s including the German attack on the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, the surrender of Germany on 9 May 1945, the death of Joseph Stalin on 5 March 1953, and the first manned spaceflight on 12 April 1961. Biography Born in a Jewish family in Vladimir to a tailor and a housewife, Levitan traveled to Moscow in the early 1930s, hoping to become an actor, but was rejected because of his provincial accent. However, he secured a position on a Moscow radio station owing to his characteristic deep voice. In January 1934, after hearing Levitan broadcasting, Joseph Stalin called up the radio station and requested that from then on Levitan read his announcements. Consequently, Levitan became not only the personal announcer f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 In Radio
The year 2001 in radio involved some significant events. __TOC__ Events *January - KQMQ/Honolulu flips from Rhythmic CHR to Rhythmic AC *January 5 - Hot AC-formatted WZTR/Louisville flips to Top 40/CHR as WZKF, "Kiss FM." *January 12 - WUBT flips to Top 40, branded as "Kiss 103.5" ( WKSC-FM) in Chicago. *January 26 - Long-time Top 40/CHR outlet KKOB-FM/Albuquerque flips to All-80s Hits *January 29 - The 80s Channel WXXY and WWYX/Chicago (now WPNA-FM) becomes Viva 103.1 *February - Rhythmic oldies-formatted KKME/Modesto flips to active rock *February 2 - Country-formatted WOGY/Memphis flips to Modern AC as WMBZ, "The Buzz." *March - Rhythmic oldies-formatted WBUF/Buffalo flips to rock *April 2 - WJMO/ Washington, D.C. ends its urban oldies format and begins stunting as Survivor Radio, based on the CBS TV series, ''Survivor''. *April 6 - Survivor Radio stunt ends, and WJMO flips to CHR as Hot 99.5 (WIHT). "Survivor", by Destiny's Child, was the first song played on Hot 99.5. *Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
