1919 in radio details the internationally significant events in
radio broadcasting for the year 1919.
Events
19 March – The first spoken word radio transmission from east to west across the Atlantic is made. The Marconi Company acquire the radio station facility at Ballybunion, a small seaside town in County Kerry in the southwest of Ireland, soon after the end of the First World War. From here, Marconi engineers W.T. Ditcham and H.J. Round, succeed in transmitting voice across the Atlantic from east to west for the first time. They use the call-sign Yankee X-ray Quebec (YXQ) and the first words were 'Hello Canada'. The transmission is received at Chelmsford and Louisburg, Nova Scotia, Canada.[citation needed]
28 October – On the first anniversary of the establishment of independent
Czechoslovakia, the first radio programme of words and music is broadcast from the telegraph station at the
Petřín lookout tower in
Prague.[1]
c. October –
Lee De Forest resumes broadcasting from the
Bronx after a hiatus due to
World War I. The station is given the designation
2XG. Records concerts are aired 5 times a week. The world's first known programme director is Richard Klein.[2]
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abCox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc.
ISBN978-0-7864-3848-8.