1923 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1923.

Events

• January 1: In the United States the well-known American Football Rose Bowl Game is broadcast for the first time, on Los Angeles station KHJ.
• January 8: First outside broadcast by the British Broadcasting Company, a British National Opera Company production of The Magic Flute from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
• February 13: First BBC broadcast from Cardiff, Wales (station 5WA).
• January 18: The United Kingdom Postmaster General grants the BBC a licence to broadcast.
• March 6: First BBC broadcast from Glasgow, Scotland (station 5SC).
• March 13: Production of the first radio set incorporating a loudspeaker. All previously produced sets had required the use of headphones.
• April 1: In Vienna the Czeija & Nissl electrical company begins test transmissions from its premises in co-operation with a technical high school, the Technisches Gewerbemusem. This marks the start of radio broadcasting in Austria.
• May 14: RCA purchases WJZ from the Westinghouse Electric Corporation; it would also have its city of license transferred from Newark, New Jersey to New York.
• October 29: Regular radio broadcasting in Germany officially begins with the first evening transmission from the Sendestelle Berlin installed at the Vox-Haus in Potsdamer Platz.^[1][2]
• November 13: Australia's first licenced radio station, 2SB, begins transmission in Sydney.
• December 31:
  • KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh conducts the first transcontinental voice broadcast with a station in Manchester, England.^[3]
  • The BBC broadcasts the chimes of Big Ben for the first time.^[4]

Debuts

• 22 March: Hockey Night in Canada is first broadcast on the Toronto Star's private station CFCA.
• June: WSAR-Fall River, Massachusetts issued its license.
• 1 June: The publicly-owned Canadian National Railways establishes the CNR Radio network to supply programming on its fleet of passenger cars; it is the first national network in North America and precursor to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
• 26 September: WTAM in Cleveland, Ohio is launched by S.E. Lawrence and Theodore Willard, in the name of the Willard Storage Battery Company.

Closings

Births

• 25 December Gordon Baxter, American radio personality, author and columnist.(died 2005)

Undated

• Janie Joplin, American radio announcer and voice-over artist.(died 2007)

Deaths

References

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