The year 1936 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting.

Contents Events Debuts Closings Births Deaths References

Events

• 2 January: Bing Crosby becomes full-time host of the Kraft Music Hall, following Paul Whiteman, after having been a guest host on December 5, 1935.
• 20 March - The Lisnagarvey transmitter begins service, broadcasting the Northern Ireland Regional Programme of the BBC on a frequency of 977 kHz.
• 25 March: First radio broadcast from the Parliament of New Zealand.^[1]
• 30 March: Backstage Wife moves from Mutual to the NBC Blue Network.
• 12 June: Pittsburgh becomes the first city in the U.S. to have a 50,000 watt ("blowtorch") station. http://www.historyorb.com/countries/usa/pennsylvania/pittsburgh
• 6 September: Fireside chat: On Drought Conditions
• 17 September: Major Bowes Amateur Hour moves from the NBC Red Network to CBS.
• 2 November: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) takes over responsibility for public service broadcasting in Canada from the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC).
• 11 December: King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom broadcasts a speech from Windsor Castle concerning his abdication of the throne.

Debuts

• 31 January: The Green Hornet debuts on WXYZ.
• 29 February: The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air debuts on CBS.

Closings

Births

• 21 April: James Dobson, chairman of the board of Focus on the Family, host of internationally-syndicated daily radio show of the same name.
• 4 September: Wayne Cody (died 2002), radio and television sportscaster who spent the bulk of his career at KIRO in Seattle, Washington.
• 11 September: Roger Barkley (died 1997), radio personality and talk show host, best remembered for his work with Al Lohman as part of The Lohman and Barkley Show on KFI Los Angeles, California.

Deaths

References

1. ↑ nzhistory.net.nz - sound file and transcript