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1912 In Radio
The year 1912 in radio involved some significant events. Events * 15 April – Sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'': CQD and SOS radio distress signals are sent. * 5 July – International Radiotelegraph Convention signed in London. * 13 August – The United States Congress passes the Radio Act of 1912, "An Act to regulate radio communication", requiring that all radio stations be licensed. * 9YV, an experimental station operated by Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, becomes the first radio station in the United States to offer a regularly-scheduled daily broadcast (in morse code) of the weather forecast. Births *16 February – Del Sharbutt, American radio and television announcer (died 2002) *8 April – Mary Dee, born Mary Goode, African American DJ (died 1964) *24 June – Brian Johnston, English cricket commentator and radio presenter (died 1994) *1 July – Wallace Greenslade, English radio announcer (died 1961) *5 October – Tony Marvin, American radi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinking Of The RMS Titanic
The sank in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean, four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. The largest ocean liner in service at the time, ''Titanic'' had an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg at around 23:40 (ship's time) on Sunday, 14 April 1912. Her sinking two hours and forty minutes later at 02:20 (ship's time; 05:18 GMT) on Monday, 15 April, resulted in the deaths of more than 1,500 people, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. ''Titanic'' received six warnings of sea ice on 14 April but was travelling about 22 knots when her lookouts sighted the iceberg. Unable to turn quickly enough, the ship suffered a glancing blow that buckled her starboard side and opened six of her sixteen compartments to the sea. ''Titanic'' had been designed to stay afloat with four of her forward compartments flooded but no more, and the crew soon realised that the ship w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 In Radio
The year 1964 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history. Events * January 23 - WBZY 990 AM in Torrington, CT signs off for the last time. *27 March – The BBC's Children's Hour (renamed "For the Young" since April 1961) is broadcast for the last time. *28 March – Radio Caroline, a pirate radio station based on a ship anchored in international waters off the English coast, opens as Europe's first all-day English-language pop music station. *29 June – Manx Radio, the national commercial radio station for the Isle of Man, begins broadcasting. *1 July ** In Sweden Sveriges Radio launches its third national channel – P3 – as an alternative to commercial pirate radio. ** In the U.S., the Federal Communications Commission adopts the FM Non-Duplication Rule, prohibiting broadcasters in cities with more than 100,000 people from simulcasting the same programming on their AM and FM stations. ** WPEA, the oldest high school radio station, belonging to Phillips ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Zucca
Rita Luisa Zucca (, 1912–1998) was an American-born Italian radio announcer who broadcast Axis propaganda to Allied troops in Italy and North Africa. She became known as one of the "Axis Sallys", along with Mildred Gillars, who broadcast out of Berlin, Germany. Early life Zucca's father, Louis, owned a very successful restaurant in New York's Midtown district in the 1930s and 1940s, called Zucca's Italian Garden. Located at 116-118-120 West 49th Street, the restaurant had its own promotional postcards which displayed a distinctly refined setting. Zucca spent her teenage years in a convent school in Florence and, as a young woman, had worked in the family business.Axis Sally: The Americans Behind That Alluring Voice HistoryNet, November 23, 2009 She returned to Italy in 1938, working as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 In Radio
The year 1992 in radio involved some significant events. __TOC__ Events * January - KUBE/Seattle completes its shift from Mainstream Top 40 to Rhythmic CHR. * January 15 - AC-formatted KZOL/Salt Lake City flips to modern rock as KXRK * January 22 – Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation. * February - WPLJ in New York City completes its shift from Top 40 to Hot adult contemporary. In addition, the station rebrands from "Mojo Radio" to the current "95-5 PLJ." * February 12 – Washington, D.C. area Top 40 radio station WAVA-FM changes to a religious format, which continues to this day. * February 18 – After over two decades as Baltimore's premier Top 40/CHR outlet (including a brief stint with disco and a few name and call letter changes), WBSB flips to Gold-based Hot AC as "Variety 104.3." * February 18 - The "Young Country" format debuts with KRSR 105.3 in Dallas dropping its hot AC format to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Sevareid
Arnold Eric Sevareid (November 26, 1912 – July 9, 1992) was an American author and CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents who were hired by CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow and nicknamed " Murrow's Boys." Sevareid was the first to report the Fall of Paris in 1940, when the city was captured by German forces during World War II. Sevareid followed in Murrow's footsteps as a commentator on the CBS Evening News for thirteen years, for which he was recognized with Emmy and Peabody Awards. Early life Sevareid was born in central North Dakota at Velva to Alfred Eric and Clara Pauline Elizabeth Sevareid (née Hougen). After the failure of the bank in Velva in 1925, his family moved to nearby Minot, and then to Minneapolis, Minnesota, settling on 30th Avenue North. He attended Central High School in Minneapolis. Sevareid graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1935. A descendant of Norwegian immigrants, he preserved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 In Radio
The year 1998 in radio involved some significant events. __TOC__ Events *January – KCHZ/ Kansas City evolves from Modern AC to Top 40/ CHR *January 2 – A gunman shoots Antario Teodoro Filho, Brazilian politician and radio presenter, during a broadcast. *January 21 – WNSR/ New York relaunches as "Big 105", WBIX. The station evolves to Hot AC by the late spring. *February **After switching formats from "Pure Rock" to Spanish music format on 105.5FM in Long Beach three years earlier, KNAC is resurrected as the internet-based radio station knac.com. **WNEW-FM/New York City evolves from classic rock to mainstream rock. *February 6 – WLAC-FM/Nashville flips from adult contemporary to classic rock. *March – Davenport, Iowa stations WLLR-FM (101.3 FM, a country station) and KUUL (103.7 FM, an oldies station) swap dial positions. *March 9 – Washington, D.C. stations WTEM 570-AM and WWRC 980-AM swap dial positions. Two weeks prior, WWRC, a former NBC Radio owned-and-operated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Marvin
Tony Marvin (October 5, 1912 – October 10, 1998) was an American radio and television announcer.Cox, Jim. (2013). ''Radio Journalism in America: Telling the News in the Golden Age and Beyond''. Mcfarland & Company, Inc. . P. 201. He became a staff announcer for CBS, and later became most known as the long-time announcer for Arthur Godfrey. Early life Marvin was born on October 5, 1912. A graduate of Erasmus Hall High School, he nearly became a doctor, graduating from St. John's University and attending the Long Island College of Medicine for two years. However, the Great Depression intervened, and he had to drop out to help to support his family. Marvin's obituary in the New York Times noted that "his big break" came during the latter job. It said, "As he serviced a limousine, the owner heard him singing and offered to pay for a vocal teacher for him The result was a scholarship for a year's study with an MGM voice coach." From that training, Marvin performed with the New Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 In Radio
The year 1961 in radio involved some significant events. Events *March 7 – Los Angeles station KLAC begins FM broadcasting as KLAC-FM. *April 1 – The Zenith Radio FM Stereo standard is authorized for US FM stations by the FCC. *April 12: 07:00 UTC – Soviet announcer Yuri Levitan broadcasts news of Yuri Gagarin's Vostok 1 mission, the first human spaceflight, on Radio Moscow while it is still in progress. *October 8 – The BBC Home Service in the United Kingdom first broadcasts '' In Touch''; the world's first national radio programme for people who are blind; it will still be running in 2021. Debuts *February 11 – KSHE debuts as a female-oriented rock station in St. Louis, Missouri. *April 12 – WLKW/990-Providence, Rhode Island signs on as Rhode Island's only 50 kW A.M. station. *June 25 – WPLM-FM/99.1-Plymouth, Massachusetts signs on. * KHAK-AM and KHAK-FM, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, sign on at 1360 AM and 98.1 FM, respectively. Although formatting country music, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallace Greenslade
Wallace Frederick Powers Greenslade (1 July 1912 – 21 April 1961), also known as Bill Greenslade, was a BBC radio announcer and News presenter, newsreader. He is best remembered for being the announcer—and frequently the Double act, straight man—for the BBC radio comedy series ''The Goon Show'' for eight series from 1953 until the end of the show's run in 1960. Life Greenslade was born in Formby, Lancashire (now part of Merseyside). During the World War II, Second World War, he served for two and a half years as a lieutenant commander in the Royal Naval Reserve. He also worked as a purser with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, P&O Line. In 1945 Greenslade joined the BBC, where he began in the European Service, as presentation assistant and newsreader. In 1949 he was appointed a BBC Home Service, Home Service announcer before becoming a newsreader in both radio and television from November 1955. In addition to ''The Goon Show'', he was announcer for ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 In Radio
The year 1994 in radio involved some significant events. Events *January – WHTZ Z 100 Newark, NJ/New York City modifies their CHR format by mixing large amounts of Modern Rock into the format. They would continue this for over two years. *January 11 – The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its political arm Sinn Féin. *February – WHYT Detroit evolves from Rhythmic CHR to CHR. **US radio station KVRE— Hot Springs Village, Arkansas, begins broadcasting. *February 1 – Radio station at HM Prison Feltham in London begins broadcasting, origin of National Prison Radio in the United Kingdom. *March – KFMH (99.7 FM) of Muscatine, Iowa, ceases its longtime progressive and alternative rock format on March 1. Two weeks later, the station's sale to New York-based Connoisseur Communications is completed; days later, the station's new country format debuts with call letters KBOB (to compete with the Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Johnston
Brian Alexander Johnston (24 June 1912 – 5 January 1994), nicknamed Johnners, was a British cricket commentator, author, and television presenter. He was most prominently associated with the BBC during a career which lasted from 1946 until his death in January 1994. Early life Brian Alexander Johnston was born on Monday, 24 June 1912 at the Old Rectory, Little Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, the youngest of four children (elder siblings were Anne, Michael and Christopher). His paternal grandfather, Reginald Eden Johnston, had been Governor of the Bank of England between 1909 and 1911. The World War II airborne division commander Frederick 'Boy' Browning was his first cousin. On 27 August 1922, his father, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Evelyn Johnston, DSO, MC, who managed the family coffee business, drowned at Widemouth Sands near Bude, Cornwall at the age of 44. In 1924, his mother married one of her husband's military colleagues, Captain Marcus Scully, who became his stepfat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Dee
Mary Dudley (born Mary Elizabeth Goode; April 8, 1912March 17, 1964), known as Mary Dee, was an American disc jockey who is widely considered the first African-American woman disc jockey in the United States. She grew up in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and then studied at Howard University for two years. After having her family, she attended Si Mann School of Radio in Pittsburgh, and on August 1, 1948, went on the air at WHOD radio. Gaining national attention, Dee broadcast from a storefront, "Studio Dee", in the Hill District of Pittsburgh from 1951 to 1956. She moved her show, ''Movin' Around with Mary Dee'', to Baltimore and broadcast from station WSID from 1956 to 1958. In 1958, she moved to Philadelphia and hosted ''Songs of Faith'' on WHAT until her death in 1964. Dee is considered a pioneer in developing the radio format that combines coverage of community affairs with music and news. She was one of the first two black women admitted to the Association of American Women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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