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Monday, August 4, 2008

Radio Milestones

1896
2 June, Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi applies for first British "wireless" patent

1906
24 December, first radio programme (music and speech) broadcast by Professor Reginald Fessenden from the US coast and received by ships. The first radios were crystal sets, operated by adjusting metal wires known as cat's whiskers

1920
15 June, Marconi broadcasts a concert by opera singer Dame Nellie Melba

1922
18 October, BBC (British Broadcasting Company) founded

14 November, first BBC broadcast made - the six o'clock news read by Arthur Burrows

1923
26 April, first daily weather forecast by the BBC

1926
24 January, launch of The Weeks's Good Cause, the BBC's longest running programme

1933
28 August, first BBC woman announcer, Shiela Borrett

1939-45
During world War II the BBC provides information and stirring speeches from Winston Churchill and other wartime leaders

1951
1 January, launch od The Archers, longest running BBC radio serial

1964

Pirate radio stations broadcast from ships to UK, encouraging the BBC to launch a pop music station (Radio 1, 30 September 1967)

1970
24 Febraury, National Public Radio launched in the USA

1993
First Internet radio broadcasts

1995
First experimental DAB (digital audio broadcasting) in UK. DAB gives listeners better quality reception, easy tuning and text

2002
BBC launches fice new DAB channels

2004
Sales of DAB digital radios top 1 million

2005
BBC radio begins to make programmes available as podcasts that can be downloaded to computers, MP3 and DAB players

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