Radio year 1919

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A jazz band in 1919

General

The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is a public limited company majority owned by General Electric established (GE).

Radio

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

Numerous small transmitters are being built in the USA . For example, the inventor Lee De Forest (1873–1961) broadcasts record concerts from the Bronx five times a week under the code “2XG” .
January - In Germany , the Reichspost secures its entitlement to the radio system and, for this purpose, spins off a new department for "radio telegraphy" from its old "telegraph and telephone system" department.
March - Hans Bredow (1879–1959) changes as ministerial director to the Reich Ministry of Post and begins to set up a "Reichsfunknetz".
Sommer - A Post memorandum summarizes the political concerns against the new medium in Germany: “A general release of the use of receiving devices to record any messages, as has been done in some countries in which the state is involved in the transmission of wireless messages Not dealing with internal traffic has great reservations, because it would be technically possible for everyone to listen to all messages in the air. "
October 28th - test broadcast for the future Radio Prague . Both speech and music are broadcast. The radio telegraph station on Prague's Laurenziberg ( Petřín ) serves as the transmitter .
November 6th - The engineer Hanso Schotanus à Steringa Idzerda (1885–1944) produces the first public radio broadcast from the Netherlands . "The station broadcasts a sponsored concert program twice a week."
November 19 - Hans Bredow gives a Urania experimental lecture in Berlin, in which he presents the idea of broadcasting to the public for the first time.
December - The Marconi Company opens the "XWA" test station in Drummondville , Canada.

Born

April 6th - Heinz Schimmelpfennig , German actor and one of the busiest radio play speakers, was born in Berlin († 2010).
May 26th - Alfons Dalma , Croatian-Austrian journalist, 1967–1974 editor-in-chief of the current service on ORF , was born as Stjepan Tomičić in Otočac († 1999).
September 5 - Hans E. Schons , German actor, was born in Malmedy , then Prussia , now Belgium († 2005). He is best known for his numerous roles in Fritz Umgelter's television films .
December 12th - Fritz Muliar , Austrian folk actor , was born as Friedrich Ludwig Stand in Vienna († 2009). Muliar is known to the television audience in numerous roles, initially as the actor of Josef Schwejk in the 13-part television film Der brave Soldat Schwejk (1972) and later as Max Koch in Kommissar Rex (1994-1998).

Web links

International radio and television chronicle. In: rfcb.ch. Archived from the original on December 27, 2016 ; accessed on December 27, 2016 .

Individual evidence

^ Konrad Dussel: German radio history . UVK-Verlag, Konstanz 1999, p. 25 .
↑ Winfried B. Lerg: The emergence of broadcasting in Germany . 1965, p. 94 . quoted from Konrad Dussel: Deutsche Rundfunkgeschichte . UVK-Verlag, Konstanz 1999, p. 25 .
^ The beginnings of radio broadcasts in Czechoslovakia. In: radio.cz. Radio Prague, accessed on October 28, 2009 : "The first radio broadcast, consisting of words and music, was broadcast on October 28, 1919 from the radio telegraph station on the lookout tower on Prague's Laurence Hill (Petrín)."
↑ ^a ^b Gijsbert Hinnen: International radio and television history. In: rfcb.ch. Archived from the original on December 27, 2016 ; Retrieved February 8, 2008 .
↑ The transmitter location Königs Wusterhausen in its heyday. Period 1919-1933. In: funkerberg.de. FV Sender Königs Wusterhausen eV, accessed on May 13, 2017 (there only with indication of the month): "In November 1919 State Secretary Hans Bredow gave a URANIA experimental lecture in Berlin, in which he presented the idea of broadcasting for everyone to the public for the first time."

[Dussel25-1] Konrad Dussel: German radio history . UVK-Verlag, Konstanz 1999, p. 25 .

[2] Winfried B. Lerg: The emergence of broadcasting in Germany . 1965, p. 94 . quoted from Konrad Dussel: Deutsche Rundfunkgeschichte . UVK-Verlag, Konstanz 1999, p. 25 .

[3] The beginnings of radio broadcasts in Czechoslovakia. In: radio.cz. Radio Prague, accessed on October 28, 2009 : "The first radio broadcast, consisting of words and music, was broadcast on October 28, 1919 from the radio telegraph station on the lookout tower on Prague's Laurence Hill (Petrín)."

[gh-int001-4] Gijsbert Hinnen: International radio and television history. In: rfcb.ch. Archived from the original on December 27, 2016 ; Retrieved February 8, 2008 .

[5] The transmitter location Königs Wusterhausen in its heyday. Period 1919-1933. In: funkerberg.de. FV Sender Königs Wusterhausen eV, accessed on May 13, 2017 (there only with indication of the month): "In November 1919 State Secretary Hans Bredow gave a URANIA experimental lecture in Berlin, in which he presented the idea of broadcasting for everyone to the public for the first time."