1927 in radio

The year 1927 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting.__TOC__

Events

*January 1 – NBC makes the first ever coast-to-coast network radio broadcast of a Rose Bowl Game.
*January 21 – A performance in Chicago, Illinois, of "Faust" is the first opera to be broadcast over a national radio network.
*February 23 – The Federal Radio Commission (later to be replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) is created by Calvin Coolidge.
*4 March – First broadcast from radio station Polskie Radio Wilno in Vilnius (then in Poland, now in Lithuania).
*11 March – Station PCJ, based at the Philips Laboratories in Eindhoven, makes the first short-wave broadcasts from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies.
*31 March – the Philips company scores a publicity coup when Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands addresses the colonial population via its PCJ transmitter. [http://www.bureauafrique.nl/autresdepartements/africa/Radionetherlandsturns60/aboutrnw_history#founding Official history of Radio Netherlands]
*6 May – Türk Telsiz-Telefon Anonim Şirketi ("Turkish Wireless Telephony Ltd") begins radio broadcasting in Istanbul.
*1 July – 23 Canadian radio stations combine forces to make the country's first nationwide broadcast, covering celebrations of the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation. [http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/07/01/ CBC digital archive]
*21 August – The BBC starts high-power medium-wave transmissions to the English Midlands from station 5GB Daventry on 610 kHz.

Debuts

Closings

Births

*June 24 – Chuck Niles, (d. 2004), only jazz disc jockey to be on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Deaths

References

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