On the 4th July 1950, Radio Free Europe – founded the previous year to transmit uncensored information to audiences behind the Iron Curtain – completed its first broadcast.
Although now largely inaccurate as a result of the inherent delay in the encoding, transmission, and decoding of digital radio broadcasts, the Greenwich Time Signal pips are still a part of many BBC radio programmes.
Announcements were made before, during and after the radio broadcast that the events in War of the Worlds were fictitious, but it was clear that these warnings went unheeded by many.
“White Christmas” has since gone on to become the world’s biggest-selling single of all time.
The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first vessel to transmit a ship-to-shore wireless message.
The broadcast included performances of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci featuring acclaimed Italian tenor Enrico Caruso.
The Grand Ole Opry moved to its current home at the 4,000-seater Grand Ole Opry House in 1974.
The world’s first radio news program was broadcast on the station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
On the 5th February 1924 the BBC ‘pips’ were broadcast for the first time.
Desert Island Discs is Britain’s longest-running radio programme.
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