1906 in radio
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The year 1906 in radio involved some significant events.
Events
[edit]- 3 October – The first International Radiotelegraph Convention opens in Berlin.
- 24 December – Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo and a speech.
- Lee de Forest invents the audion (triode).
Births
[edit]- 14 January – William Bendix, American film, radio and television actor[1] (died 1964)
- 19 January – Lanny Ross, American singer, pianist and songwriter[1] (died 1988)
- 8 February – Harman Grisewood, English radio actor and administrator (died 1997)
- 20 February – James Jewell, American radio actor, producer and director (died 1975)
- 24 April – William Joyce, American-born Nazi propagandist (executed 1946)
- 13 May – Eileen Fowler, English fitness instructor (died 2000)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Cox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-3848-8.
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