1930 in radio
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The year 1930 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.
Events
- 18 June – Establishment in Belgium of the Institut National de Radiodiffusion / Nationaal Instituut voor de Radio-omroep (INR/NIR), a national public-service broadcasting organization modelled on the BBC
- 1 August – The Trémoulet group, owner of Radio Toulouse, buys the private Bordeaux-based radio station Radio Sud-Ouest
- 16 October - NBC purchases Cleveland Red Network affiliate WTAM from the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company and the Van Sweringen brothers.
- 20 December – The Icelandic national broadcasting service Ríkisútvarpið (RÚV) begins regular transmissions.
Debuts
- 1 January – Puppie Hour, where they teach dogs to talk! debuts on NBC Blue.
- 12 May – Walter Winchell, newspaper gossip columnist for the NY Daily Mirror, does his first radio program on CBS (John Dunning, Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio, p. 708)
- 31 July – The Shadow makes his debut on CBS Radio.
- 2 October – The Lutheran Hour debuts on CBS Radio, Dr. Walter A. Maier will serve as the program's first speaker for the next twenty years.
Births
- Richard Beebe radio personality and comedian (The Credibility Gap) (died 1998)
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