1919 in radio

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Generally

  • The Radio Corporation of America (RCA ) is founded as a public company majority-owned by General Electric ( GE).

Radio

In 1919, the wireless broadcasting technology was first used publicly. Until then broadcasts were a privilege of the military.

  • In the U.S., produced numerous small channels. So, for example, sends the inventor Lee De Forest (1873-1961) under the symbol " 2XG " five times a week records concerts from the Bronx.
  • January - In Germany, the Reich -Mail to secure their claim to the Radiocommunication and divided it from her old department " telegraph and telephony " a new department for " wireless telegraphy " from.
  • March - Hans Bredow (1879-1959) replaced as Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Post and begins with the establishment of a " kingdom of radio network ".
  • Summer - A post- memorandum summarizes the political concern about the new medium in Germany together: " A general release of the use of receiving apparatus for receiving any messages as it is done in some countries where the state is in the carriage wireless message internal traffic is not concerned, his great concern, because it would be technically possible for anyone to listen to all messages in the air. "
  • October 28 - test transmission for the later Radio Prague. It broadcasts both language and music. As a transmitter, the radio telegraph station serves at the Prague Petrin Hill ( Petrin ).
  • November 6 - The engineer Hanso Schotanus à Rochester Inga Idzerda ( 1885-1944 ) produced the first public radio broadcast from the Netherlands. " Twice a week, the transmitter emits a sponsored concert program. "
  • November 19 - Hans Bredow holds a Urania experimental lecture in Berlin, in which he first introduces the idea of ​​broadcasting for anyone to the public.
  • December - The Marconi Company opened in Drummondville, Canada, the experimental station " XWA ".

Born

  • April 6 - Heinz Schimmelpfennig, German actor and one of the busiest radio speaker was born in Berlin († 2010).
  • May 26 - Alfons Dalma, Croatian - Austrian journalist, 1967-1974 editor of the current service in the ORF is born as Stjepan Tomičić in Otočac († 1999).
  • September 5 - Hans E. Schons, German actor is now born in Malmedy, then Prussia, Belgium († 2005). He is best known for his numerous roles in television films of Fritz Umgelter.
  • December 12 - Fritz Muliar Austrian folk actor is born as Friedrich Ludwig Stand in Vienna († 2009). Television audiences is known Muliar in numerous roles, but first as a performer of Josef Svejk in the 13 - part television film The Good Soldier Schweik (1972 ) and later as Max Koch in Kommissar Rex (1994-1998).
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