Overview of the events of 1935 in radio
The year 1935 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.
23 January – Station 1YA Auckland moves into the first purpose-built broadcasting premises in New Zealand .[ 1]
25 January – Tsar Boris III signs a decree making all broadcasting in Bulgaria a state-organized activity.
17 February – The Droitwich medium-wave transmitter begins service in England, broadcasting the Midland Regional Programme of the BBC on a frequency of 1013 kHz.
28 April – Fireside chat by the President of the United States: On the Works Relief Program .
12 March – Reformed American gambler Kid Canfield becomes the first person to die live on radio, while making a promotional broadcast on WHIS in Bluefield, West Virginia .[ 2]
24 March – The Major Bowes Amateur Hour is broadcast nationally for the first time on NBC , after having been on the New York City radio station WHN .
1 June – In Japan, NHK begins its international service, Radio Japan , with a daily one-hour programme in English and Japanese beamed towards North America.
29 July – Lux Radio Theater has its first show on CBS , after having been on NBC Blue for a year.
4 August – In Portugal , the Emissora Nacional de Radiodifusão, forerunner of today's RDP – Radiodifusão Portuguesa , is officially inaugurated.
10 December – The first broadcast commentary on a snooker match (Joe Davis v. Horace Lindrum ) is given in the BBC Regional Programme .
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20 April – WLEU, Erie, Pennsylvania, begins broadcasting on 1420 kHz with 250 W power (daytime) and 100 W (night).[ 12]
1 October – KDON, Del Monte, California, begins broadcasting on 1210 kHz with 100 W power.[ 13]
UNDATED – WTMV, East St. Louis, Illinois, begins broadcasting on 1500 kHz with 100 W power.[ 14]
2 April – KFPM, Greenville, Texas, ends broadcast operations. The station had 15 W power, and its operator said it was "losing money every day."[ 15]
23 June – The Gibson Family ends its run on network radio (NBC).[ 6]
28 June – The Beatrice Lillie Show ends its run on network radio (NBC ).[ 6]
8 September – Uncle Charlie's Tent Show ends its run on network radio (NBC).[ 6]
22 September – America's Hour ends its run on network radio (CBS ).[ 6]
25 December – House of Glass ends its run on the Blue Network.[ 6]
23 March – Barry Cryer (died 2022), English comedy scriptwriter and performer.
15 May – Tony Butler , English radio sports presenter in the west midlands.
26 May – Sheila Steafel (died 2019), South-African born British actress.
28 July – Simon Dee , born Cyril Henty-Dodd (died 2009), English DJ.
13 October – Bruce Morrow ("Cousin Brucie"), American radio presenter.
15 November – Gillian Reynolds , English radio critic.
18 December – Rosemary Leach (died 2017), English actress.
Gary Dee (died 1995), pioneer in controversial talk radio , mostly in Cleveland , Ohio.
^ An Encyclopedia of New Zealand 1966
^ "Kid Canfield, Noted Reformed Gambler, Dies at Microphone" . Bluefield Daily Telegraph . 13 March 1935. p. 1. Retrieved 11 May 2021 .
^ Paolo Bertella Farnetti; Cecilia Dau Novelli (6 November 2017). Images of Colonialism and Decolonisation in the Italian Media . Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-5275-0414-1 .
^ Yahya Abu Bakr; Saʻad Labib; Hamdy Kandil (1985). Development of communication in the Arab states: needs and priorities . Unesco. p. 14. ISBN 978-92-3-102082-7 .
^ a b 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 .
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Dunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3 .
^ Thomas Hajkowski (21 February 2017). The BBC and National Identity in Britain, 1922-53 . Oxford University Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-1-5261-1884-4 .
^ "Programa surgiu em 1935, durante o governo de Getúlio Vargas" . Correio do Estado . 22 August 2010. Retrieved 2 June 2017 .
^ María Elena de las Carreras; Jan-Christopher Horak (1 May 2019). Hollywood Goes Latin: Spanish-Language Cinema in Los Angeles . Indiana University Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-2-9600296-8-0 .
^ "The Jumbo Fire-Chief Program – The Digital Deli Online" . digitaldeliftp.com. Retrieved 10 May 2015 .
^ John Edwards Memorial Foundation (1982). JEMF Quarterly . John Edwards Memorial Foundation. p. 110.
^ "WLEU Opens at Erie" (PDF) . Broadcasting. 1 May 1935. Retrieved 24 October 2014 .
^ "New California Outlet" (PDF) . Broadcasting. 1 October 1935. Retrieved 4 November 2014 .
^ "WTMV, at East St. Louis, New 100-Watter, on Air" (PDF) . Retrieved 24 October 2014 .
^ "15-Watter Gives Up" (PDF) . Broadcasting. 15 April 1935. Retrieved 24 October 2014 .
^ Asa Briggs (23 March 1995). The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume I: The Birth of Broadcasting . OUP Oxford. p. 358. ISBN 978-0-19-212926-0 .
^ "Will Rogers' Burial" . The Philadelphia Inquirer . 19 September 1936. p. 6. Retrieved 8 March 2017 – via Newspapers.com.