Broadcasting year 1920

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Radio station in Minneapolis, USA 1920

General

January 10th - The Versailles Peace Treaty comes into force.
March - Due to the initially successful right-wing Kapp Putsch , the German government first has to flee Berlin, but the attempted coup soon collapses due to a general strike.
April - At the Sanremo Conference , large parts of the Middle East are politically reorganized and divided into British and French mandate areas.
August - In the Battle of Warsaw (“Miracle on the Vistula”) the Soviet Russian troops are stopped on their advance westward.

Radio

January - Lee De Forest is forced to shut down his 2XG station after moving it from the Bronx (where it was licensed) to Manhattan .
February 23 - Marconi's 15 kW station in Chelmsford begins a test program on long wave 107 kHz. Messages and music are broadcast twice a day. The experiment lasted until March 6, 1920.
April - Lee DeForest installs a 1 kW transmitter in the California Theater in San Francisco and from now on broadcasts the musical performances from the concert hall every day. The station with the callsign "6XC" works first at 1450 m, later at 1260 m.
June 15 - Australian opera singer Nellie Melba becomes the first music star to appear live on UK radio.
August 20 - The Detroit station "8MK" (today: WWJ-AM ) is the first radio station to offer regular news in cooperation with Detroit News .

August 27th - The Sociedad Radio Argentinia broadcasts a performance of the Wagner opera Parsifal . At this time, however, the transmission cannot be received by more than 20 sets in all of Buenos Aires .

November 2 - KDKA of Pittsburgh takes as the first private radio station in the United States on his program.

December 22nd - The Königs Wusterhausen broadcaster will broadcast a Christmas concert with instrumental music for the first time. Letters from private individuals who followed the concert came from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg and the Nordic countries. Since listening to the radio was not allowed in the German Reich, there were no reactions from the Reich territory.

Born

January 1st - Heinz Zemanek , Austrian computer pioneer , is born in Vienna . († 2014)

February 14th - Albert Barillé , French screenwriter and animation producer ( Once upon a time ... ) was born in Paris († 2009).

March 3 - James Doohan , Canadian actor, born in Vancouver . Doohan was most notably in the role of Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery Scott ("Scotty") known in the television series Starship Enterprise . († 2005)

March 23rd - Alfred Böhm , Austrian actor ( Der Leihopa ) was born in Vienna († 1995).

May 23 - Annette von Aretin , in 1954 the first TV announcer at BR , in the entire German-speaking area as a member of the advice team for the quiz program Was bin ich? was born Marie Adelhaid Elisabeth Kunigunde Felicitas Freiin von Aretin in Bamberg († 2006).

July 16 - Kurt Hepperlin , German actor and documentary film director, was born in Hammelburg († 1992).

June 18 - Roman Brodmann , Swiss documentary filmmaker, was born in Binningen († 1990).

July 19 - Heini Kaufeld , German actor, was born in Hamburg . He was best known for the numerous television broadcasts from the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater . († 1996)

September 20 - William Conrad , American actor ( Smoking Colts ), voice actor and radio broadcaster, was born William Cann in Louisville, Kentucky († 1994).

September 21 - Vico Torriani , Swiss pop singer and presenter of the ZDF game show Der goldene Schuss was born as Ludovico Oxens Torriani in Geneva († 1998).

October 15 - Heribert Meisel , Austrian sports journalist, is born in Baden (Lower Austria) . († 1966)

November 17 - Camillo Felgen , Luxembourg radio and television presenter, is born in Kayl , Canton Esch an der Alzette . Felgen hosted the first German-language hit parades for Radio Luxemburg in the 1950s . († 2005)

November 25th - Hilde Sicks , German actress, is born in Hamburg . She was best known for the numerous television broadcasts from the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater . († 2007)

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

^ ^A ^b ^c Patrick Robertson: The Shell Book of Firsts . 2nd Edition. Ebury Press, London 1983, ISBN 0-7181-2370-0 , pp. 145-148 (English).
↑ ^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): “On December 22, 1920, a Christmas concert with instrumental music was broadcast for the first time, which resulted in letters from private listeners from Luxembourg, Holland, England and the Nordic countries would have. At that time, there were no reactions from private listeners from Germany, as "listening to the radio" was forbidden as a punishment. "

[Shell-1] A ^b ^c Patrick Robertson: The Shell Book of Firsts . 2nd Edition. Ebury Press, London 1983, ISBN 0-7181-2370-0 , pp. 145-148 (English).

[gh-2] Gijsbert Hinnen: International radio and television history. In: rfcb.ch. Archived from the original on December 27, 2016 ; Retrieved February 8, 2008 .

[3] 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): “On December 22, 1920, a Christmas concert with instrumental music was broadcast for the first time, which resulted in letters from private listeners from Luxembourg, Holland, England and the Nordic countries would have. At that time, there were no reactions from private listeners from Germany, as "listening to the radio" was forbidden as a punishment. "