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Overview of the events of 1937 in radio
The year 1937 saw a number of significant events in
radio broadcasting history.
Events
9 January –
Nature magazine takes up physicist
S. K. Mitra 's campaign to persuade the
Government of India to establish a Radio Research Board.
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1 February – First broadcast of the continuing
Swedish radio programme Dagens dikt ("Poem of the day").
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9 March –
Fireside chat by the
President of the United States : On the
Reorganization of the Judiciary .
14 March – The
Jack Benny -
Fred Allen 12-year "feud" begins, when both comedians participate in "The Battle of the Century" at the Hotel Pierre.
6 May – The
Hindenburg disaster takes place in
Lakehurst, New Jersey .
Herbert Morrison is assigned by
NBC Red affiliate
WLS (AM) in Chicago to cover the landing of the zeppelin; as he has no ability to broadcast the event live, he and his engineer decide to record it as an experiment. The ensuing transcription (including the now-famous "
Oh, the humanity " idiom) airs from Chicago that evening and on the
NBC Red Network the next day, a first for the network given that NBC's policy at the time forbade the use of prerecorded news actualities.
12 May –
Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at
Westminster Abbey in
London . The
BBC makes its first outside broadcast covering the event.
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4 July – Following the alteration of frequencies at the
BBC 's
Washford transmitter to enable it to radiate separate regional services for Wales and the West of England, a new
Welsh Regional Programme begins, broadcast from Washford on 1050 kHz and Penmon on 804 kHz.
13 July – Schools in
France are sent a list of state-approved radio receivers from which they can choose in order to obtain a government subsidy of 400 francs on the purchase.
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8 September –
CBS broadcasts a two-and-a-half hour memorial concert in the US in memory of George Gershwin, live from the
Hollywood Bowl . It features such stars as
Oscar Levant ,
Fred Astaire ,
Otto Klemperer ,
Lily Pons and the
Los Angeles Philharmonic .
[5]
14 September – Britain's Foreign Secretary,
Anthony Eden , broadcasts from Geneva following the
Nyon Conference .
[5]
1 October – First
Dagens Eko news broadcast on
Swedish radio .
12 October –
Fireside chat : On Legislation to be Recommended to the Extraordinary Session of the Congress .
14 November –
Fireside chat : On the Unemployment Census .
12 December – American actress
Mae West makes a
risqué guest appearance on
The Chase and Sanborn Hour that eventually results in her being banned from radio.
Undated – In the United States:
Frederic Ziv and John L. Sinn form the
Ziv Company for syndication of radio programs.
[6]
The Oklahoma Network Inc. begins operation with eight stations in Oklahoma as initial members.
[7]
Debuts
Endings
18 April – The Adventures of Captain Diamond ends its run on network radio.
[8]
26 April – Bughouse Rhythm ends its run on network radio (
Blue Network ).
[8]
25 June – Ma and Pa ends its run on network radio (
CBS ).
[8]
28 July – Broadway Merry-Go-Round ends its run on network radio (
Blue Network ).
[8]
30 July – Broadway Varieties ends its run on network radio (
CBS ).
[8]
Births
Deaths
References
^ Radio Research in India. Nature 139, 62–63 (1937).
https://doi.org/10.1038/139062c0
^
Sveriges Radio - Dagens dikt: historik (in Swedish)
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0 .
^ Rebecca Scales (24 February 2016).
Radio and the Politics of Sound in Interwar France, 1921-1939 . Cambridge University Press. p. 190.
ISBN
978-1-107-10867-7 .
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b Library of Congress (1982).
Radio Broadcasts in the Library of Congress, 1924-1941: A Catalog of Recordings . Library of Congress. p. 44.
ISBN
978-0-8444-0385-4 .
^ Anderson, Christopher.
"Ziv Television Programs, Inc" . Museum of Broadcast Communication . Retrieved 11 January 2017 .
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"New Okla. Network" (PDF) . Radio Daily . 9 February 1937. p. 1. Retrieved 19 May 2016 .
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q Dunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-507678-3 .
^ Sean Street (2002).
A Concise History of British Radio, 1922-2002 . Kelly Publications. p. 69.
ISBN
978-1-903053-14-0 .
^ Roger Simpson (2008).
Radio Camelot: Arthurian Legends on the BBC, 1922–2005 . DS Brewer. p. 12.
ISBN
978-1-84384-140-1 .
^
The Wireless World and Radio Review . Iliffe & Sons Ltd. 1932. p. 629.
^ Editorial Board (2013).
Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose .
Edinburgh , Scotland:
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
ISBN
978-1-59339-292-5 .
^ Irving E. Fang (1977).
Those radio commentators! . Iowa State University Press. p. 337.
ISBN
978-0-8138-1500-8 .