- LOR Radio Argentina
LOR Radio Argentina was the first nationally licensed
radio station inArgentina .The first radio-telephone tests were done in
Bernal , Argentina in 1910 byGuglielmo Marconi .By 1916
David Sarnoff was proposing to bring music, sports and news broadcasts into the homes of listeners by wirelessradio .The project was delayed by
World War I , but onAugust 27 ,1920 , a group of music fans installed modest equipment and broadcast theopera "Parsifal " byRichard Wagner from the "Coliseo" theater to an Argentinian audience of perhaps fifty listeners.LOR Radio Argentina began transmitting regularly from various theaters in 1921.
The inauguration of Argentina's president,
Marcelo T. de Alvear was covered by LOR Radio Argentina onOctober 12 ,1922 , a first in news broadcasting for that nation.The station closed on
January 1 ,1997 , after a religious show. This was due to economic problems caused by a bad administration.References
* [http://www.monografias.com/trabajos6/hira/hira.html Historia de la radio en la argentina]
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