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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 ...
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 –.
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]
Initially, the station was on the air from 11.00 am until 11.00 pm. However from Sunday 16 June 1940, the station would commence its broadcasting day from 6.30 am and would continue until 11.00 pm. These broadcasting hours remained in place until the new BBC General Forces Programme began on Sunday 27 February 1944, with the service maintaining ...
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.
Vintage amateur radio is a subset of amateur radio hobby where enthusiasts collect, restore, preserve, build, and operate amateur radio equipment from bygone years, such as those using vacuum tube technology. Popular modes of operation include speaking over amplitude modulation (AM), and communicating using Morse code through continuous wave ...
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.
24 May 1944. ( 1944-05-24) Children Calling Home was an English-language radio programme, with the first episode on Christmas Day, 25 December 1940 as a collaboration between the United Kingdom's BBC 's Home Service, CBC of Canada, and NBC of the United States, and broadcast simultaneously in all three countries. [1]