1923 in radio explained

1923 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1923.

Events

• 1 January  - In the United States the American Football Rose Bowl Game is broadcast for the first time, on Los Angeles station KHJ.
• 4 January  - The first network broadcast is made when WEAF in New York City and WNAC in Boston simultaneously broadcast a saxophone solo.^[1]
• 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 French post office's higher educational institute of engineering).
• 8 February  - Norman Albert calls the first live broadcast of an ice hockey game, the third period of an Ontario Hockey League Intermediate playoff game, on Toronto radio station CFCA.^{[2] [3]}
• 13 March  - Production of the first radio set incorporating a loudspeaker. All previously produced sets have required the use of headphones.
• 14 March  - Pete Parker calls the play-by-play of the first ice hockey game ever broadcast on the radio in its entirety, between the Regina Capitals and the Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Canada Hockey League.^[4]
• 1 April  - In Vienna the Czeija & Nissl electrical company begins test transmissions from its premises in co-operation with a technical high school, the Technisches Gewerbemusem. This marks the start of radio broadcasting in Austria.
• 18 May  - The first regular radio broadcasts begin in Czechoslovakia.^[5]
• 1 June  - The publicly owned Canadian National Railways establishes the CNR Radio network to supply programming on its fleet of passenger cars; it is the first national network in North America and precursor to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
• 21 July  - The Dutch radio manufacturing company Nederlandsche Seintoestellen Fabriek begins regular radio broadcasting in the Netherlands.
• 28 September  - First publication of the BBC listings magazine, Radio Times, in Britain.^[6]
• 29 October  - Regular radio broadcasting in Germany officially begins with the first evening transmission from the Sendestelle Berlin installed at the Vox-Haus in Potsdamer Platz.^{[7] [8]}
• 8 November  - First BBC broadcast in Welsh^[9]
• 13 November  - Australia's first licensed radio station, 2SB, begins transmission in Sydney.
• 23 November  - In Belgium, French-speaking station Radio Bruxelles begins broadcasting (it will change its name to Radio Belgique on 1 January 1924).
• 2 December  - First BBC broadcast in Gaelic
• 31 December
  • KDKA in Pittsburgh conducts the first transcontinental voice broadcast with a station in Manchester, England.^[10]
  • The BBC broadcasts the chimes of Big Ben from London for the first time.^[6]

Debuts

• 22 March  - Hockey Night in Canada is first broadcast on the Toronto Star's private station CFCA.

Births

• 26 January  - Patricia Hughes, English continuity announcer (died 2013)
• 2 March  - Jean Metcalfe, English radio broadcaster (died 2000)
• 9 May  - Johnny Grant, American radio host and producer (died 2008)
• 10 October  - Nicholas Parsons, British entertainer (died 2020)
• 21 November  - Margaret Lyons, born Keiko Margaret Inouye, Canadian broadcast executive (died 2019)
• 22 December  - John Ebdon, British radio broadcaster, Graecophile, author and director of the London Planetarium (died 2005)
• 25 December  - Gordon Baxter, American radio personality, author and columnist (died 2005)

Notes and References

1. Cox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc. .
2. News: Toronto Star . 9 February 1923 . 12 . Albert, Norman . Conacher Scored Six for North Toronto.
3. Book: Kitchen, Paul. Win, Tie or Wrangle: The Inside Story of the Old Ottawa Senators - 1883–1935. Penumbra Press. Manotick, Ontario. 246. 2008. 978-1-897323-46-5.
4. Web site: Hooper, Albert W. "Bert" . The History of Canadian Broadcasting . 28 January 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030630/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/index3.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.broadcasting-history.ca%2Fpersonalities%2Fpersonalities.php%3Fid%3D173 . 4 March 2016 . dead . mdy-all .
5. Web site: Czech Radio history - Radio Prague.
6. Book: Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 0-14-102715-0. 2006.
7. Radio magazine, Berlin, 1923, vol. 13, page 512
8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zMsZ8vG9JQ Sound recording of the opening announcement
9. Book: Seatter . Robert . Robinson . Nick . Broadcasting Britain: 100 years of the BBC . 2022 . . London . 978-0-2415-6754-8 . 13.
10. Web site: Today in Pittsburgh History. HistoryOrb. 2012-03-21.