1927 in radio

The year 1927 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.

List of years in radio (table)
In television
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930

Events
  • 1 January
  • 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.
  • 21 January – A performance in Chicago, Illinois, of Faust is the first opera to be broadcast over a national radio network.
  • 22 January – The BBC transmits the first ever running commentary on an English Football League match: Arsenal v. Sheffield United at Highbury.[2]
  • 23 February – The Federal Radio Commission (later to be replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) is created by Calvin Coolidge.
  • 4 March – First broadcast from the Wileńskie Biuro Radiotechniczne radio station in Vilnius (then in Poland, now in Lithuania).[3]
  • 11 March – Station PCJJ, based at the Philips Laboratories in Eindhoven, makes the first short-wave broadcasts from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies. PCJJ is thought to be the first distinct short-wave service having its own programming rather than simulcasting a domestic broadcaster.
  • 31 March – The Philips company scores a publicity coup when Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands addresses the colonial population via its PCJJ transmitter.[4]
  • 14 April – Radio PTT Nord begins regular transmissions from Lille.[5]
  • 6 May – Türk Telsiz-Telefon Anonym Şirketi ("Turkish Wireless Telephony Ltd") begins radio broadcasting in Istanbul.
  • 1 June – Radio Rennes PTT begins regular transmissions in Brittany.
  • 1 July – 23 Canadian radio stations combine forces to make the country's first nationwide broadcast, covering celebrations of the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation.[6]
  • 7 July – Christopher Stone presents a record programme on the BBC, becoming the first British disc jockey.
  • 2 August – Under pressure by the Federal Government on the Ku Klux Klan (owners and operators of WTRC in Brooklyn, New York via their Twentieth [District] Republican Club), the station is relocated to Mount Vernon, Virginia, its call letters changed to WTFF, and ownership transferred to The Fellowship Forum, a newspaper published by the Klan. WTRC and WTFF were the origins of the current Washington, D.C., station WFED.
  • 13 August – The Proms broadcast concert season opens in London under management of the BBC.
  • 21 August – The BBC starts high-power medium-wave transmissions to the English Midlands from station 5GB (Daventry transmitting station) on 610 kHz.
  • 17 November – The Italian broadcasting company URI (Unione Radiofonica Italiana) is absorbed by the state-owned EIAR (Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche), forerunner of today's RAI.
  • 25 November – In Washington, D.C., the International Radio-Telegraphy Convention is signed by the representatives of eighty nations.[7]
  • December – Joshua Powell of Clacton in England begins the domestic radio relay service which will become Rediffusion.[8]
  • 28 December – AVRO (the Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep) is established in the Netherlands.
  • Vernon Bartlett is appointed the BBC's first foreign correspondent.

Debuts
  • January 1
    • The NBC Blue Network commences operations, on what was the former experimental RCA mini-network of stations. WJZ in New York (today WABC) serves as the Blue Network's flagship.
    • The United Independent Broadcasters network is established by New York talent agent Arthur Judson in Chicago, Illinois. The Columbia Phonograph Company (Columbia Records' parent company) surfaces as an investor in April, and the network is named after the company.
  • January 24: Blue Monday Jamboree debuts on KFRC in San Francisco, California.[9]
  • February 18: Cities Service Concerts debuts on NBC after having had "trial broadcasts in local New York market" in 1925-26.[10]
  • April: WFCI at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, owned by Frank Crook, Inc., begins broadcasting. WFCI would sign off but re-establish itself in 1941.
  • September 18: The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System is officially launched on 16 stations nationwide.[11] Cigar manufacturer William S. Paley purchases the company a week later and shortens the name to Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).
  • October 12: Laundryland Lyrics debuts on NBC.[12]
  • November 7: WHBL in Sheboygan, Wisconsin begins broadcasting as WHBM before switching to their current calls the next year.

Births
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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. ISBN 978-0-7864-3848-8.
  2. BBC: Radio football down the years
  3. First Radio Broadcast in Vilnius
  4. http://www.bureauafrique.nl/autresdepartements/africa/Radionetherlandsturns60/aboutrnw_history#founding Archived 2009-02-28 at the Wayback Machine Official history of Radio Netherlands
  5. 100 ans de radio
  6. http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/07/01/ CBC digital archive
  7. Bussey, Gordon. (1991). Wireless, the crucial decade: history of the British wireless industry, 1924-34. Peter Peregrinus Ltd. ISBN 9780863411885.
  8. "1928–1978: The first 50 Years of Rediffusion". Rediffusion Ltd. 2010. Retrieved 2011-03-26.
  9. "S.F. Symphony Opens List of Broadcastigns". Oakland Tribune. California, Oakland. January 23, 1927. p. 78. Retrieved December 10, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. Dunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3.
  11. Radio Digest, September 1927, quoted in: McLeod, Elizabeth (September 20, 2002). CBS—In the Beginning, History of American Broadcasting. Retrieved on 2007-01-01. The sixteen stations are: WOR in Newark; WAIU (now WTVN) in Columbus, Ohio; WCAO in Baltimore; WCAU (now WPHT) in Philadelphia; WEAN (now WPRV) in Providence; WFBL in Syracuse; WGHP (now WXYT) in Detroit; WJAS in Pittsburgh; WKRC in Cincinnati; WMAK (now WBEN) in Buffalo-Lockport; WMAQ in Chicago; WNAC (now WRKO) in Boston; WOWO in Fort Wayne, Indiana; KMOX in St. Louis; and KOIL in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
  12. "Laundry men plan program". Oakland Tribune. California, Oakland. October 6, 1929. p. 22. Retrieved November 8, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
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