1921 in radio

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The year 1921 in radio involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Debuts 3 Closings 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References 7 See also

Events

• 2 January - The first religious broadcast is made by Dr. E.J. Van Etten of Calvary Episcopal Church on the Pittsburgh, USA station KDKA.
• 3 January - The first vocal weather forecast is made by station 9XM, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. They had been broadcasting Morse code weather bulletins since 1917.^[1]
• 18 February - Warren G. Harding becomes the first president-elect of the USA to be heard on radio when he makes an appearance on Pittsburgh station KDKA.
• 4 March - The first Presidential inauguration is broadcast from Washington, D.C. by Pittsburgh's KDKA.
• 10 March - The first broadcast of live opera/theater in history is on the air from Pittsburgh's KDKA at that city's Davis Theater.
• 11 April - The world's first ever sports broadcast is made on station KDKA by Florent Gibson of the Pittsburgh Star newspaper. The commentary is of a fight between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee at Motor Square Garden in Pittsburgh.^[2]
• 2 July - The first broadcast of a World Heavyweight bout is on the air from Jersey City, New Jersey via Pittsburgh's KDKA.
• 5 August - The first broadcast of a baseball game is on the air from Pittsburgh's KDKA as the Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 8-5 at Forbes Field.
• 20 September - The first "news room" and "news department" in broadcast history is created by Pittsburgh's KDKA and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
• 8 October - The first broadcast of American football is on the air via Pittsburgh's KDKA as the University of Pittsburgh defeats West Virginia University at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field.
• 27 November - US bandleader Vincent Lopez & group begins a weekly 90-minute music show on Westinghouse-owned station WJZ (later WABC (AM)) in Newark, New Jersey, USA.

Debuts

• 26 July: Experimental station 8ACS (later WHK) is launched in Cleveland, Ohio, USA by Warren C. Cox/Cox Mfg. Co.
• 19 September: The first commercially-licensed radio broadcasting station in the United States, WBZ, is launched by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Springfield, Massachusetts.
• 1 October: WJZ is launched by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
• 11 November: KYW is launched by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Closings

Births

• 19 July - Harold Camping, American religious broadcaster
• 19 October - Bern Bennett, American radio and television announcer

Deaths

References

• List of firsts by KDKA-AM

See also

• List of oldest radio stations