Table Of Years In Radio

	Table Of Years In Radio The table of years in radio is a tabular display of all years in radio, for overview and quick navigation to any year. __NOTOC__ ::Contents: 1900s-2000s 1900s in radio 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000s in radio 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 See also Timeline of the introduction of radio in countries Table of years in British radio {{Lists of years * Tables of years Radio Radio is the technology of signa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connected to an antenna which radiates the waves, and received by another antenna connected to a radio receiver. Radio is very widely used in modern technology, in radio communication, radar, radio navigation, remote control, remote sensing, and other applications. In radio communication, used in radio and television broadcasting, cell phones, two-way radios, wireless networking, and satellite communication, among numerous other uses, radio waves are used to carry information across space from a transmitter to a receiver, by modulating the radio signal (impressing an information signal on the radio wave by varying some aspect of the wave) in the transmitter. In radar, used to locate and track objects like aircraft, ships, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	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]
	1927 In Radio The year 1927 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history. Events 1 January NBC in the United States makes the first ever coast-to-coast network radio broadcast of a Rose Bowl Game. NBC takes control of WJZ in New York City—the beginning of the NBC Blue Network.Cox, Jim (2008). ''This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) takes over the activities and operations of the former British Broadcasting Company (1922–26). John Reith becomes the first Director-General. 2 January – The Reverend Claude Lhande makes the first religious broadcast on French radio, beginning a series of talks on Radio Paris entitled ''L'Évangile par dessus les Toits''. 15 January – First live sports broadcast on BBC Radio in the United Kingdom: the rugby union international England v Wales is commented on by Teddy Wakelam. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1926 In Radio The year 1926 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history. Events 1 January – 2RN, the first radio broadcasting station in the Irish Free State, goes on air. 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. 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 be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1925 In Radio The year 1925 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history. __TOC__ Events 1 January – In Sweden, AB Radiotjänst (forerunner of Sveriges Radio) broadcasts its first programme. 27 January – Australia's second oldest surviving radio station, 2HD, goes on air for the first time in Newcastle, New South Wales. 1 February – The Polish Radiotechnical Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Radiotechniczne, PTR) makes its first official broadcast from Warsaw. 22 February – First radio transmission of a religious service in Denmark, from the Garrison Church, Copenhagen. 4 March – Second inauguration of Calvin Coolidge as President of the United States, the first inauguration to be broadcast. 8 March – Westinghouse Electric, owner of KDKA (AM), KDKA among other stations, announces from its Pittsburgh headquarters a proposal to form "radio networks" via shortwave technology. 22 March – JOAK, NHK, NHK Radio One of Tokyo, an official in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1924 In Radio 1924 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1924. Events 1 January – Meteorological Office issues its first broadcast Shipping Forecast, at this time called ''Weather Shipping''. 5 January – The British Broadcasting Company makes its first broadcast of a religious service from a church (St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, with Rev. Dick Sheppard). 15 January – The world's first radio play, ''Danger'' by Richard Hughes, is broadcast by the British Broadcasting Company from its studios in London. 5 February – Hourly Greenwich Time Signal from the Royal Greenwich Observatory in the United Kingdom is broadcast for the first time. 8 February – John Joseph Carty, vice-president at American Telephone & Telegraph Company, speaks on the first nationwide radio hookup in the United States, between New York's WEAF, Washington, D.C.'s WCAP and Providence's WJAR. He is heard by an estimated fifty million people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1923 In Radio 1923 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1923. Events 1 January – In the United States the well-known American Football Rose Bowl Game is broadcast for the first time, on Los Angeles station KHJ. 4 January – WEAF in New York City and WNAC in Boston simultaneously broadcast a saxophone solo—the first network broadcast.Cox, Jim (2008). ''This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . 8 January – First outside broadcast by the British Broadcasting Company: a British National Opera Company production of ''The Magic Flute'' from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. 18 January – The United Kingdom Postmaster General grants the BBC a licence to broadcast. 20 January – Inauguration of Paris PTT, a station organized by and broadcasting from the École supérieure des postes et télégraphes (the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1922 In Radio 1922 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1922. __TOC__ Events 6 February – Official inauguration of ''Radio Tour Eiffel'' from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, transmitting meteorological bulletins. 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.''The Shell Book of Firsts'' 1983. p. 240. 27 February – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1921 In Radio 1921 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1921. __TOC__ Events 2 January – Dr E. J. Van Etten of Calvary Episcopal Church makes one of the first religious broadcast on the Pittsburgh station KDKA. 3 January – Station 9XM (now WHA), at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, transmits the first spoken weather forecast. The station had been broadcasting weather bulletins in Morse code since 1916. 18 February – Warren G. Harding becomes the first U.S. president-elect to be heard on radio when he speaks on KDKA. 4 March – The first Presidential inauguration is broadcast from Washington, D.C., by KDKA. 10 March – From Pittsburgh's Davis Theater KDKA makes the first broadcast in history of a live opera/theater performance. 11 April – The world's first ever sports broadcast is made on KDKA by Florent Gibson of the '' Pittsburgh Post'' newspaper. The commentary is of a fight between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1920 In Radio 1920 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1920. __TOC__ Events * January The first informal and spasmodic broadcasts in the United Kingdom are made by the Marconi Company from Chelmsford in England. These broadcasts include both speech and music.''The Shell Book of Firsts'' 1983. pp. 145–8. Radio 2XG, which opened the previous year, is forced to close down after Lee De Forest moves the station from the Bronx (where it is licensed) to Manhattan (where it is not). * 23 February–6 March – The Marconi Company broadcasts from Chelmsford a series of 30-minute shows repeated twice daily. These include live music performances. * 15 June – Australian soprano Dame Nellie Melba becomes history's first well-known professional performer to make a radio broadcast when she sings two arias as part of the series of Marconi broadcasts from Chelmsford in Britain. * 20 August – Station 8MK in Detroit (modern-day WWJ) is the fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1919 In Radio 1919 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1919. __TOC__ Events 19 March – The first spoken word radio transmission from east to west across the Atlantic is made. The Marconi Company acquire the radio station facility at Ballybunion, a small seaside town in County Kerry in the southwest of Ireland, soon after the end of the First World War. From here, Marconi engineers W.T. Ditcham and H.J. Round, succeed in transmitting voice across the Atlantic from east to west for the first time. They use the call-sign Yankee X-ray Quebec (YXQ) and the first words were 'Hello Canada'. The transmission is received at Chelmsford and Louisburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. 17 October – The assets of Marconi Company's American operations are acquired by General Electric and are incorporated (along with the Pan-American Telegraph Company and assets already controlled by the United States Navy) as the Radio Corporation of America. Former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1918 In Radio 1918 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1918. __TOC__ Events * 10 April – Alexander M. Nicholson files a patent for the radio crystal oscillator. * 2 September – The first radio broadcast from the United Kingdom to Australia is made by Amalgamated Wireless to the home of Ernest Fisk in Sydney. * 11 November – Armistice ends World War I. * Edwin Howard Armstrong develops the superheterodyne receiver. * A 200 kW alternator starts operating at Station NFF, the United States Navy station at Somerset, New Jersey, the most powerful radio transmitter at this time. Births * 1 January – Wolf Mittler, German broadcaster (d. 2002) * 16 April – Spike Milligan, British comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright (d. 2002) * 26 April – William Hardcastle, British radio news presenter (d. 1975) * 18 June – Isobel Barnett, British broadcasting personality (suicide 1980) * 8 August &ndash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

	Table Of Years In Radio The table of years in radio is a tabular display of all years in radio, for overview and quick navigation to any year. __NOTOC__ ::Contents: 1900s-2000s 1900s in radio 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000s in radio 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 See also Timeline of the introduction of radio in countries Table of years in British radio {{Lists of years * Tables of years Radio Radio is the technology of signa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connected to an antenna which radiates the waves, and received by another antenna connected to a radio receiver. Radio is very widely used in modern technology, in radio communication, radar, radio navigation, remote control, remote sensing, and other applications. In radio communication, used in radio and television broadcasting, cell phones, two-way radios, wireless networking, and satellite communication, among numerous other uses, radio waves are used to carry information across space from a transmitter to a receiver, by modulating the radio signal (impressing an information signal on the radio wave by varying some aspect of the wave) in the transmitter. In radar, used to locate and track objects like aircraft, ships, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	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]
	1927 In Radio The year 1927 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history. Events 1 January NBC in the United States makes the first ever coast-to-coast network radio broadcast of a Rose Bowl Game. NBC takes control of WJZ in New York City—the beginning of the NBC Blue Network.Cox, Jim (2008). ''This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) takes over the activities and operations of the former British Broadcasting Company (1922–26). John Reith becomes the first Director-General. 2 January – The Reverend Claude Lhande makes the first religious broadcast on French radio, beginning a series of talks on Radio Paris entitled ''L'Évangile par dessus les Toits''. 15 January – First live sports broadcast on BBC Radio in the United Kingdom: the rugby union international England v Wales is commented on by Teddy Wakelam. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1926 In Radio The year 1926 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history. Events 1 January – 2RN, the first radio broadcasting station in the Irish Free State, goes on air. 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. 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 be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1925 In Radio The year 1925 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history. __TOC__ Events 1 January – In Sweden, AB Radiotjänst (forerunner of Sveriges Radio) broadcasts its first programme. 27 January – Australia's second oldest surviving radio station, 2HD, goes on air for the first time in Newcastle, New South Wales. 1 February – The Polish Radiotechnical Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Radiotechniczne, PTR) makes its first official broadcast from Warsaw. 22 February – First radio transmission of a religious service in Denmark, from the Garrison Church, Copenhagen. 4 March – Second inauguration of Calvin Coolidge as President of the United States, the first inauguration to be broadcast. 8 March – Westinghouse Electric, owner of KDKA (AM), KDKA among other stations, announces from its Pittsburgh headquarters a proposal to form "radio networks" via shortwave technology. 22 March – JOAK, NHK, NHK Radio One of Tokyo, an official in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1924 In Radio 1924 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1924. Events 1 January – Meteorological Office issues its first broadcast Shipping Forecast, at this time called ''Weather Shipping''. 5 January – The British Broadcasting Company makes its first broadcast of a religious service from a church (St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, with Rev. Dick Sheppard). 15 January – The world's first radio play, ''Danger'' by Richard Hughes, is broadcast by the British Broadcasting Company from its studios in London. 5 February – Hourly Greenwich Time Signal from the Royal Greenwich Observatory in the United Kingdom is broadcast for the first time. 8 February – John Joseph Carty, vice-president at American Telephone & Telegraph Company, speaks on the first nationwide radio hookup in the United States, between New York's WEAF, Washington, D.C.'s WCAP and Providence's WJAR. He is heard by an estimated fifty million people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1923 In Radio 1923 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1923. Events 1 January – In the United States the well-known American Football Rose Bowl Game is broadcast for the first time, on Los Angeles station KHJ. 4 January – WEAF in New York City and WNAC in Boston simultaneously broadcast a saxophone solo—the first network broadcast.Cox, Jim (2008). ''This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . 8 January – First outside broadcast by the British Broadcasting Company: a British National Opera Company production of ''The Magic Flute'' from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. 18 January – The United Kingdom Postmaster General grants the BBC a licence to broadcast. 20 January – Inauguration of Paris PTT, a station organized by and broadcasting from the École supérieure des postes et télégraphes (the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1922 In Radio 1922 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1922. __TOC__ Events 6 February – Official inauguration of ''Radio Tour Eiffel'' from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, transmitting meteorological bulletins. 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.''The Shell Book of Firsts'' 1983. p. 240. 27 February – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1921 In Radio 1921 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1921. __TOC__ Events 2 January – Dr E. J. Van Etten of Calvary Episcopal Church makes one of the first religious broadcast on the Pittsburgh station KDKA. 3 January – Station 9XM (now WHA), at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, transmits the first spoken weather forecast. The station had been broadcasting weather bulletins in Morse code since 1916. 18 February – Warren G. Harding becomes the first U.S. president-elect to be heard on radio when he speaks on KDKA. 4 March – The first Presidential inauguration is broadcast from Washington, D.C., by KDKA. 10 March – From Pittsburgh's Davis Theater KDKA makes the first broadcast in history of a live opera/theater performance. 11 April – The world's first ever sports broadcast is made on KDKA by Florent Gibson of the '' Pittsburgh Post'' newspaper. The commentary is of a fight between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1920 In Radio 1920 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1920. __TOC__ Events * January The first informal and spasmodic broadcasts in the United Kingdom are made by the Marconi Company from Chelmsford in England. These broadcasts include both speech and music.''The Shell Book of Firsts'' 1983. pp. 145–8. Radio 2XG, which opened the previous year, is forced to close down after Lee De Forest moves the station from the Bronx (where it is licensed) to Manhattan (where it is not). * 23 February–6 March – The Marconi Company broadcasts from Chelmsford a series of 30-minute shows repeated twice daily. These include live music performances. * 15 June – Australian soprano Dame Nellie Melba becomes history's first well-known professional performer to make a radio broadcast when she sings two arias as part of the series of Marconi broadcasts from Chelmsford in Britain. * 20 August – Station 8MK in Detroit (modern-day WWJ) is the fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1919 In Radio 1919 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1919. __TOC__ Events 19 March – The first spoken word radio transmission from east to west across the Atlantic is made. The Marconi Company acquire the radio station facility at Ballybunion, a small seaside town in County Kerry in the southwest of Ireland, soon after the end of the First World War. From here, Marconi engineers W.T. Ditcham and H.J. Round, succeed in transmitting voice across the Atlantic from east to west for the first time. They use the call-sign Yankee X-ray Quebec (YXQ) and the first words were 'Hello Canada'. The transmission is received at Chelmsford and Louisburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. 17 October – The assets of Marconi Company's American operations are acquired by General Electric and are incorporated (along with the Pan-American Telegraph Company and assets already controlled by the United States Navy) as the Radio Corporation of America. Former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1918 In Radio 1918 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1918. __TOC__ Events * 10 April – Alexander M. Nicholson files a patent for the radio crystal oscillator. * 2 September – The first radio broadcast from the United Kingdom to Australia is made by Amalgamated Wireless to the home of Ernest Fisk in Sydney. * 11 November – Armistice ends World War I. * Edwin Howard Armstrong develops the superheterodyne receiver. * A 200 kW alternator starts operating at Station NFF, the United States Navy station at Somerset, New Jersey, the most powerful radio transmitter at this time. Births * 1 January – Wolf Mittler, German broadcaster (d. 2002) * 16 April – Spike Milligan, British comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright (d. 2002) * 26 April – William Hardcastle, British radio news presenter (d. 1975) * 18 June – Isobel Barnett, British broadcasting personality (suicide 1980) * 8 August &ndash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]