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- Events
- Debuts
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{{Year nav topic5|1923|radio}}{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2012}}1923 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1923. Events- 1 January – In the United States the well-known American Football Rose Bowl Game is broadcast for the first time, on Los Angeles station KHJ.
- 4 January – WEAF in New York City and WNAC in Boston simultaneously broadcast a saxophone solo—the first network broadcast.[1]
- 8 January – First outside broadcast by the British Broadcasting Company: a British National Opera Company production of The Magic Flute from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
- 13 February – First BBC broadcast from Cardiff, Wales (station 5WA).
- 18 January – The United Kingdom Postmaster General grants the BBC a licence to broadcast.
- 6 March – First BBC broadcast from Glasgow, Scotland (station 5SC).
- 13 March – Production of the first radio set incorporating a loudspeaker. All previously produced sets had required the use of headphones.
- 1 April – In Vienna the Czeija & Nissl electrical company begins test transmissions from its premises in co-operation with a technical high school, the Technisches Gewerbemusem. This marks the start of radio broadcasting in Austria.
- 2 May – WCAE signs on as Pittsburgh's third radio station.[2]
- 14 May – RCA purchases WJZ from the Westinghouse Electric Corporation; it would also have its city of license transferred from Newark, New Jersey to New York.
- 18 May – The first regular radio broadcasts begin in Czechoslovakia.[3]
- 3 July – WSAR in Fall River, Massachusetts, makes its first broadcast, having been licensed in the previous month.
- 21 July – The Dutch radio manufacturing company Nederlandsche Seintoestellen Fabriek begins regular radio broadcasting in the Netherlands.
- 26 September – In Cleveland, Ohio, S. E. Lawrence and Theodore Willard launch WTAM in the name of the Willard Storage Battery Company.
- 29 October – Regular radio broadcasting in Germany officially begins with the first evening transmission from the Sendestelle Berlin installed at the Vox-Haus in Potsdamer Platz.[4][5]
- 13 November – Australia's first licensed radio station, 2SB, begins transmission in Sydney.
- 23 November – In Belgium French-speaking station Radio Bruxelles begins broadcasting (it will change its name to Radio Belgique on 1 January 1924).
- 31 December
- KDKA in Pittsburgh conducts the first transcontinental voice broadcast with a station in Manchester, England.[6]
- The BBC broadcasts the chimes of Big Ben for the first time.[7]
Debuts- 22 March – Hockey Night in Canada is first broadcast on the Toronto Star's private station CFCA.
- 1 June – The publicly owned Canadian National Railways establishes the CNR Radio network to supply programming on its fleet of passenger cars; it is the first national network in North America and precursor to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Births- 9 May – Johnny Grant, American radio host and producer (d. 2008)
- 25 December – Gordon Baxter, American radio personality, author and columnist.(died 2005)
References1. ^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. ^{{cite web|url=http://user.pa.net/~ejjeff/taehist.html|title=Jeff Roteman's WTAE Radio Page - WTAE History Page|first=Jeff|last=Roteman|website=user.pa.net}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.radio.cz/en/static/history-of-radio-prague/czech-radio-history|title=Czech Radio history - Radio Prague|publisher=}} 4. ^Radio magazine, Berlin, 1923, vol. 13, page 512 5. ^[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zMsZ8vG9JQ Sound recording of the opening announcement] (YouTube) {{de icon}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Today in Pittsburgh History|url=http://www.historyorb.com/countries/usa/pennsylvania/pittsburgh|work=HistoryOrb|accessdate=2012-03-21}} 7. ^{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}
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