19 March – The first spoken word radio transmission from east to west across the Atlantic is made. The Marconi Company acquire the radio station facility at Ballybunion, a small seaside town in County Kerry in the southwest of Ireland, soon after the end of the First World War. From here, Marconi engineers W.T. Ditcham and H.J. Round, succeed in transmitting voice across the Atlantic from east to west for the first time. They use the call-sign Yankee X-ray Quebec (YXQ) and the first words were 'Hello Canada'. The transmission is received at Chelmsford and Louisburg, Nova Scotia, Canada.[citation needed]
28 October – On the first anniversary of the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia, the first radio programme of words and music is broadcast from the telegraph station at the Petřín lookout tower in Prague.[1]
c. October –Lee De Forest resumes broadcasting from the Bronx after a hiatus due to World War I. The station is given the designation 2XG. Records concerts are aired 5 times a week. The world's first known programme director is Richard Klein.[2]
Debuts
Musicians in the PCGG studio.
17 October – Dr. Frank Conrad begins broadcasting from experimental 8XK, located at his home at 7750 Penn Avenue in Wilkensburg, Pennsylvania, USA, which a year later will inspire establishment of KDKA.
6 November – Hans Idzerda's PCGG in The Hague, Netherlands begins regular programming.[4]
↑ "A Dutch Concert Heard in an English Home: Music by Wireless at a Range of 500 Miles", Illustrated London News, 29 April 1922, page 633.
↑ Advertisement in the 5 November 1919 Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant announcing PCGG's debut broadcast scheduled for the next evening. "Vintage Radio Web: Philips" (vintageradio.nl)
1 2 Cox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN978-0-7864-3848-8.
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