1926 in radio

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The year 1926 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.

Events

1 January: 2RN, the first radio broadcasting station in the Irish Free State, goes on air.^[1]
18 April: The Polskie Radio company begins regular broadcasts from Warsaw, Poland.
May 15: American Telephone & Telegraph establishes the Broadcasting Company of America; containing WCAP in Washington, D.C., WEAF in New York, and the mini-network between both stations.
29 May: The Finnish national broadcasting company Yleisradio is founded.
29 May: VPRO (the Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep) is established in the Netherlands.
12 June: Radio Kaunas begins regular broadcasting in Lithuania.
July 1: American Telephone & Telegraph exits the station ownership realm, selling off WEAF, WCAP, and their mini-network, to RCA. The latter station is merged into time-share WRC (AM) and takes the latter stations' callsign.
September 13: Formation of the National Broadcasting Company by RCA is announced in newspaper advertisements around the country.
10 November: Unión Radio takes over station EAJ-1 Radio Barcelona, laying the foundation for the creation of Spain's first national radio network.
18 December: Regular radio broadcasting begins in Estonia.
24 December: The first singing jingle commercial is heard on WCCO, Minneapolis, Minnesota.^[2]

January 12: Sam 'n' Henry debuts on WGN in Chicago, Illinois.^[2] Two years later, the creators of the show, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, leave and start the similar show Amos 'n' Andy.
February 26: 1150 AM returns to the air, this time as WJBO in New Orleans.
November 26: The National Broadcasting Company commences operations on what would become the NBC Red Network, composed of AT&T's WEAF-WCAP mini-network.
December 13: WWVA at Wheeling, West Virginia signs on at 2A.M. from owner John Stroebel's residence.

↑ RTÉ Libraries and Archives: History of RTÉ
↑ 2.0 2.1 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.