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2/4/1930 |
The American School of the Air premiers on CBS radio (-1948) |
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3/6/1931 |
The March of Time news documentary premiers on CBS radio (-1945) |
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Barbara Walters, Boston, 1st network news anchorwoman (ABC) |
9/25/1931 |
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Dan Rather, CBS anchorman |
10/31/1931 |
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12/25/1931 |
NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio |
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1/12/1932 |
The Ed Sullivan Show premiers on CBS radio |
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3/24/1932 |
1st US radio broadcast from a moving train, WABC, from Maryland |
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3/29/1932 |
Jack Benny's 1st radio appearance, on "The Ed Sullivan Show" (CBS) |
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Casey Kasem, Detroit, radio personality (American Top 40) |
4/27/1932 |
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5/2/1932 |
The Jack Benny Program premiers on NBC Blue radio network (-1955) |
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10/10/1932 |
Betty & Bob premiers on radio |
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10/11/1932 |
1st political campaign telecast (Democratic Nat'l Comm.), CBS, NYC |
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10/23/1932 |
The Fred Allen Show premiers on radio |
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12/4/1932 |
Walter Winchell's Journal premiers on NBC Blue radio network (-1955) |
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Charles Osgood, CBS newsman |
1/8/1933 |
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1/31/1933 |
The Lone Ranger premiers on WXYZ radio, Detroit (later Mutual, ABC) |
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Arno Penzias, US radio astronomer (Nobel Physics Prize 1978) |
4/26/1933 |
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6/23/1933 |
The Breakfast Club premiers on the Blue radio network (-1968) |
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7/10/1933 |
1st radio system installed in police cars, Eastchester Township, NY |
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7/31/1933 |
Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy premiers on CBS radio |
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8/14/1933 |
Ma Perkins premiers on WLW radio, Cincinnati (later NBC, CBS; -1960) |
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Chris Schenkel, ABC sportscaster |
8/21/1933 |
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Larry King, radio talk show host - "143 Arivadechi" |
11/19/1933 |
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Sam Donaldson, ABC News White House correspondent |
3/11/1934 |
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Charles Kuralt, "On the road" for CBS |
9/10/1934 |
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9/15/1934 |
The Gibson Family premiers on NBC radio - 1st musical comedy |
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9/23/1934 |
1st radio transmission known to have been heard in arctic & antarctic |
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10/17/1934 |
The Aldrich Family premiers on NBC radio |
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12/25/1934 |
A Christmas Carol with Lionel Barrymore 1st broadcast, CBS radio |
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4/1/1935 |
1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY |
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4/16/1935 |
1st radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly" |
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7/5/1935 |
1st "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcast |
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1/15/1936 |
Gang Busters premiers on CBS radio (later Blue, Mutual) (-1957) |
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1/31/1936 |
The Green Hornet premiers on WXYZ radio, Detroit (-1952) |
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2/29/1936 |
Fanny Brice's character Baby Snooks' 1st radio appearance |
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6/12/1936 |
1st 50-kW radio station in US, Pittsburgh |
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7/29/1936 |
RCA shows the 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show, monologue from "Tobacco Road" & comedy) |
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12/17/1936 |
Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy 1st heard on radio, "Royal Gelatin Hour" |
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1/25/1937 |
The Guiding Light premiers on NBC (later CBS) radio (-1956) |
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8/18/1937 |
1st construction permit for an FM radio station granted, Paxton, Mass. |
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Fred Silverman, broadcasting executive (ABC, NBC) |
9/13/1937 |
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11/13/1937 |
NBC forms 1st full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio |
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George Carlin, comedian (7 dirty words, AM & FM, Carwash) |
5/12/1938 |
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5/17/1938 |
Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue (-1948) |
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7/11/1938 |
Mercury Theatre on the Air with Orson Welles premiers on CBS radio |
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11/10/1938 |
Kate Smith sings "God Bless America" for 1st time in public (radio) |
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11/20/1938 |
1st anti-Semitic attack over a US radio network, by Father Coughlin |
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1/16/1939 |
I Love a Mystery premiers on NBC radio |
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Wolfman Jack, DJ (Midnight Special), a howling success in radio |
1/21/1939 |
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4/24/1939 |
US Signal Intelligence Service formed, authorized to intercept radio & telephone communications |
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4/30/1939 |
NBC 1st demonstrates TV at opening day of NY World's Fair, with FDR |
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7/2/1939 |
The Aldrich Family radio comedy premiers on NBC (-1953) |
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7/3/1939 |
Blondie (based on the comic strip) debuts on CBS radio (-1950) |
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9/7/1939 |
Radio NY Worldwide - WRUL, later WNYW - begins radio transmission |
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11/20/1939 |
Young Dr. Malone soap opera premiers on NBC Blue radio (-1960) |
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