1909 in radio
Events
- March 18 – Einar Dessau uses a shortwave radio transmitter in Denmark.[1]
Births
- February 6 – René Cutforth, English broadcaster (died 1984)
- March 3 – Al Read, English radio comedian and sausage manufacturer (died 1987)[2]
- March 24 – Tommy Trinder, English radio, stage and screen comedian (died 1989)
- May 6 – Loyd Sigmon, American amateur radio broadcaster (died 2004)[3]
- December 1 – Frank Gillard, English radio reporter and executive (died 1998)[4]
gollark: > free speech is saying "proof ?" to "hitler did nothing wrong" and not "no u", free speech has pros and consNo, free speech is just not silencing people who disagree with you, or who you disagree with.
gollark: Someone must run the bot, and a bot cannot be owner directly.
gollark: We wanted to have bot-driven democracy but it's impractical.
gollark: > free speech is just another way of saying you are an enabler of nazisGo <:bees:724389994663247974> yourself.
gollark: Or join the IRC.
References
- "First Broadcast by Ham Radio Operator". The Story of Information. 2013-03-18. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
- "I Say Right Monkey, It's..." British Classic Comedy. 2018-07-16. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
- "Loyd C. Sigmon". Legacy.com. 2004-06-07. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
- "BBC legend Frank Gillard dead". BBC News. 1998-10-21. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
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