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Overview of the events of 1925 in radio
The year 1925 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history.
1 January – In Sweden , AB Radiotjänst (forerunner of Sveriges Radio ) broadcasts its first programme.
27 January – Australia 's second oldest surviving radio station, 2HD , goes on air for the first time in Newcastle, New South Wales .
1 February – The Polish Radiotechnical Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Radiotechniczne, PTR) makes its first official broadcast from Warsaw .
22 February – First radio transmission of a religious service in Denmark , from the Garrison Church, Copenhagen .
4 March – Second inauguration of Calvin Coolidge as President of the United States, the first inauguration to be broadcast.[1]
8 March – Westinghouse Electric , owner of KDKA among other stations, announces from its Pittsburgh headquarters a proposal to form "radio networks" via shortwave technology.
22 March – JOAK, NHK Radio One of Tokyo, an official inauguration service start, and a first license radio station in Japan.[citation needed ]
1 April – In Denmark, Radioordningen (Statsradiofonien from 1926, Danmarks Radio from 1959) is established.
23 April – KRO (the Katholieke Radio Omroep ) is established in the Netherlands .
15 May – Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft established in Berlin [2] as an umbrella organisation[3] by nine German regional broadcasters.
1 June – JOBK, NHK Radio One of Osaka, an official inauguration service start in Japan.[citation needed ]
17 June – In Spain , Unión Radio opens station EAJ-7 Radio Madrid.
7 July – Inauguration in France of state radio station Marseille PTT.
15 July – JOCK, NHK Radio One of Nagoya , an official inauguration service start in Japan.[citation needed ]
27 July – The British Broadcasting Company 's Daventry transmitting station on Borough Hill , Daventry in central England opens as the world's first longwave broadcast radio transmitter, taking over from its Chelmsford facility.[4]
25 September – The Berliner Funkturm (Berlin Radio Tower) begins transmissions.
1 November – VARA (the Vereeniging van Arbeiders Radio Amateurs) is established in the Netherlands .
16 December – Colombo Radio is launched in Ceylon; the station subsequently becomes known as Radio Ceylon .
14 January – First broadcast on Swedish national radio (AB Radiotjänst) of one of the world's longest-running radio programmes, Barnens brevlåda ("Children's letterbox"), which will run for 1,785 editions – all presented by "Uncle Sven" (the radio sports commentator Sven Jerring) – until 1972.
21 March – Lowell Thomas is first heard on the radio on Pittsburgh station KDKA .
31 March – Radio station WOWO in Fort Wayne, Indiana begins broadcasting.
8 April – Station WADC commences regular programming in Akron, Ohio . It had debuted earlier (in February 1925) as a temporary station during a car show held at the Central Garage, the call letters standing for the station's sponsor, the Automotive Dealers Company. Known from 2 June 2005 as WARF , it becomes Akron's oldest surviving radio station.
23 September – In Decatur IL , WJBL signs on, now referred to as WSOY .
4 October – The Atwater Kent Hour debuts on WEAF and 10 other connected stations.[5]
5 October – WSM signs on in Nashville, Tennessee.
15 November – First transmission from Radio RV-10 in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (modern-day Belarus ).
28 November – The weekly country music -variety program Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee ,[5] as the "WSM Barn Dance".
24 December – KMOX begins broadcasting in St. Louis, Missouri.
Closings [ edit ]
April – WGI -Medford Hillside , Massachusetts declares bankruptcy and shuts down for good; this leaves WBZ -Springfield as the oldest surviving station in New England .
Undated – WAAB 1150 AM ceases broadcasting. 1150 AM will return the next year as WJBO .
17 February – Joy Nichols , Australian-born musical comedy performer (d. 1992 )
2 April – Hans Rosenthal , German radio editor, director and media host (d. 1987 )
25 April – Janete Clair , Brazilian broadcast play and novel writer (d. 1983 )
15 May – Regis Cordic , American radio personality and actor (d. 1999 )
25 May – Derek Cooper , English food writer and broadcaster (d. 2014 )
15 June – Richard Baker , English broadcaster (d. 2018 )
7 July – Wally Phillips , American radio personality (d. 2008 )
14 July – Pip Freedman , South African radio comedian and film actor (d. 2003 )
8 September – Peter Sellers , English comic actor (d. 1980 )
19 September – Pete Murray , English DJ
22 September – William Franklyn , English actor (d. 2006 )
28 September – Jerry Clower , American country music comedian (d. 1998 )
27 October – Monica Sims , British radio executive (d. 2018 )
31 October – Shirley Dinsdale , American ventriloquist (d. 1999 )
11 November – June Whitfield , English comic actress (d. 2018 )
References [ edit ]