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]
17 July –
Ray Galton, British comedy scriptwriter (died
2018)
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