1932 in radio

The year 1932 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.

List of years in radio (table)
In television
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935

Events

Debuts

Closings

Births

  • 19 January – George MacBeth, Scottish-born poet and radio poetry producer (died 1992).
  • 27 April – Casey Kasem, American radio personality, best known as host of the nationally syndicated countdown show American Top 40 (died 2014).
  • 13 May – Gianni Boncompagni, Italian broadcast presenter (died 2017).
  • 13 September – Dick Biondi, American National Radio Hall of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Top 40 and Oldies disc jockey.
  • 9 December – Morton Downey, Jr., controversial and influential American broadcast talk show host of the 1980s, pioneer of the "trash talk show" format (died 2001).
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References

  1. abc.net History of ABC Radio.
  2. Tomalin, Norman (1998). Daventry Calling the World (PDF). Whitby: Caedmon. ISBN 0-905355-46-6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 April 2019.
  3. "(untitled brief)" (PDF). Broadcasting. Broadcasting & Cable. 1 February 1932. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  4. Dunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3.
  5. Cox, Jim (2002). Radio Crime Fighters: More Than 300 Programs from the Golden Age. McFarland. pp. 248–250. ISBN 978-1-4766-1227-0.
  6. Cox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Deaths, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-3848-8.
  7. Sies, Luther F. (2014). Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920–1960, 2nd Edition. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-5149-4. pp. 145–146.
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