1944 in radio

The year 1944 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.

List of years in radio (table)
In television
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947

Events
  • 11 January – Fireside chat by the President of the United States: State of the Union Message to Congress.
  • 28 March – New York City radio station WQXR (now WFME) bans singing commercials from being broadcast on its station.
  • 30 April – (Six days before) The American Broadcasting Station in Europe (ABSIE) is established, transmitting from the United Kingdom in English, German, French, Dutch, Danish, and Norwegian to resistance movements in mainland Europe.
  • 5 June
  • 6 June – D-Day: United States Army Colonel R. Ernest Dupuy, news chief to Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, officially announces today's Normandy landings on radio in a broadcast at 3:32 am Eastern War Time (12:32 am Pacific Time).[3][4] BBC reports of the landings are carried by around 725 of the 914 broadcasting stations in the United States.[2]
  • 12 June – Fireside chat: Opening Fifth War Loan Drive (last fireside chat).
  • 25 July – The New York Times acquires the Interstate Broadcasting Company, parent of WQXR (now WFME) and WQXQ-FM (later WQXR; frequency becomes home to WXNY-FM) from John V. L. Hogan for $1 million American dollars. The Times will program the AM station until December 1998, and own the FM station until October 2009.
  • 26 October – With fascism defeated in most parts of Italy, the national broadcasting organization Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche (EIAR) is overhauled and renamed Radio Audizioni Italiane (RAI), the future Radiotelevisione Italiana.
  • 10 December – Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini leads a concert performance of the first half of Beethoven's Fidelio (minus its spoken dialogue) in German on NBC Radio in the United States, starring Rose Bampton. He chooses this opera for its political message: a statement against tyranny and dictatorship, intending it as a tribute to the German people who are being oppressed by Hitler. The second half is broadcast a week later. The performance is later released on LP and CD, the first of 7 operas that Toscanini conducts on radio.

Debuts

Closings

Births
  • 7 January – Jim Bohannon, American television and radio personality and nationally syndicated talk show host
  • 28 March – Rick Barry, American former NBA player and broadcaster
  • 12 May – Brian Kay, English bass singer and radio music presenter
  • 5 June – Nigel Rees, English radio broadcaster
  • 24 August – Mike Barnicle, American long-time newspaper writer and radio personality based in Boston
  • 8 October – Dale Dye, American actor, technical advisor, radio personality and writer
  • 24 October – Dr. Joy Browne, American radio psychologist syndicated by the WOR Radio Network
  • 28 October – Gerry Anderson, Northern Irish radio broadcaster (died 2014)
  • November – Jim Eldridge, English scriptwriter
  • 25 December – Kenny Everett, born Maurice Cole, British DJ (died 1995)
  • Christine Craft, American radio talk show host, previously television anchorperson

Deaths
  • 16 November – Boake Carter, 45, American news commentator since the 1930s
gollark: I didn't add a reminder cancellation feature.
gollark: ++remind 1y Remind Nobody.
gollark: Through using R. Danny, or bothering someone to remind you, or what?
gollark: I can probably write you a reminders system you can run yourself (eventually), though the main issue is just how to keep it running and how it should send you notifications.
gollark: If you want guarantees use your own stuff.

References
  1. Foot, M. R. D. (1999). SOE: An Outline History of the Special Operations Executive 1940–46. London: Pimlico. p. 143. ISBN 0-7126-6585-4.
  2. Stourton, Edward (2017). Auntie's War: the BBC during the Second World War. London: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-857-52332-7.
  3. "Col. R. Ernest Dupuy, 88, Dead; Publicist and Military Historian". The New York Times. 1975-04-26. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  4. McDonough, John (1994). "The Longest Night: Broadcasting's First Invasion". The American Scholar. 63 (2): 198–201. ISSN 0003-0937.
  5. Dunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3.
  6. "New "Frank Sinatra Show" Opens Jan. 5, Ginger Rogers First Guest". Harrisburg Telegraph. December 31, 1943. p. 17. Retrieved July 21, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.


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