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5 June – Yorkshire-born novelist and playwright J. B. Priestley broadcasts his first Sunday evening radio Postscript, "An excursion to hell", on the BBC Home Service, marking the role of the pleasure steamers in the Dunkirk evacuation, just completed. 8 June – BBC airs the first weekly episode of Radio Rhythm Club, a programme of jazz and ...
12 February: The Adventures of Superman (1940–1951) debuts on WOR. [13] 18 March: Light of the World debuts on NBC Red. 23 March: Truth or Consequences debuts on CBS. 21 April: Take It or Leave It makes its debut on CBS Radio in the United States, with Bob Hawk as host.
Website. www .bbc .co .uk /programmes /p00pn1s9. Welsh Rarebit is a British radio variety show broadcast from Cardiff by the BBC between February 1940 and December 1952. The title was taken from the dish of the same name. The show's most lasting legacy remains its closing song, "We'll Keep a Welcome". [1]
By 1964, the Home Service was on the air each day from 6.35 am (7.50 am on Sundays) and would conclude each night at the precise time of 11.48 pm. On 30 September 1967, the BBC split the Light Programme into separate pop music and entertainment stations, becoming BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2 respectively. The Third Programme became BBC Radio 3 ...
1954 in British radio – First broadcast of Children's Favourites. 1955 in British radio – Opening of the UK's first VHF / FM transmitter; first broadcast of From Our Own Correspondent. 1956 in British radio –. 1957 in British radio – First broadcast of The Today Programme and Test Match Special. 1958 in British radio –.
1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. * 1940s radio dramas (5 C, 3 P) /
XHECD-FM. XHERJ-FM. XHERL-FM. XHHV-FM. Categories: 1940 in radio. 1940 establishments. Radio stations by year of establishment. Entertainment companies established in 1940.
Television series which originated in the United Kingdom in the decade 1940s. i.e. in the years 1940 to 1949. Television shows that originated in other countries and only later aired in the United Kingdom should be removed from this category and its sub-categories. 1890s. 1900s.