1925 in radio
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The year 1925 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting.
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[edit] Events
- 1 January – In Sweden AB Radiotjänst (forerunner of Sveriges Radio) broadcasts its first programme.
- March 4 V The United States presidential inauguration is broadcast on the radio for the first time with Calvin Coolidge taking the oath of office.
[edit] Debuts
- March 21 – Lowell Thomas is first heard on the radio on the Pittsburgh station KDKA.
[edit] Closings
[edit] Births
- May 15 – Regis Cordic, (d. 1999), American radio personality and actor.
- July 7 – Wally Phillips, (d. 2008), American radio personality best known for hosting WGN's morning radio show from Chicago for 21 years.
- September 28 – Jerry Clower (d. 1998), country comedian best known for his stories of the rural South, appeared on WSM in Nashville, Tennessee.
- October 31 – Shirley Dinsdale (d. 1999), ventriloquist and television and radio personality of the 1940s and early 1950s.