11 November – A powerful new station, Radio Strasbourg-PTT opens in Alsace, eastern France. Its first programme is a performance of Mozart's Requiem in remembrance of those who fell in the Great War of 1914–18.
21 November – The German Post Office opens its Mühlacker transmitter in south-west Germany. The country's most powerful medium-wave station to date, it enters full service – with programming from Süddeutscher Rundfunk – on 20 December 1930.
20 December – The Icelandic national broadcasting service Ríkisútvarpið (RÚV) begins regular transmissions.
Philco produces the first of its "Baby grand" designs of radio in the United Kingdom of which it will sell two million.[3]
Debutsedit
1 January – Puppie Hour, where they teach dogs to talk! debuts on NBC Blue in the United States.
17 January – Ben Bernie, the Old Maestro debuts on NBC Blue.[4]
17 July – Ray Galton, British comedy scriptwriter (died 2018)
Referencesedit
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^Mahon, Morgan E. (1990). A Flick of the Switch 1930–1950. Antiques Electronics Supply. p. 116.
^ abCox, 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.
^ abcdefgDunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3.
^Bunson, Matthew (1997). Encyclopedia Sherlockiana. Simon & Schuster. p. 5. ISBN 0-02-861679-0.