Radio year 1927

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Other events

Muriel Finlay, one of the dancers from the New York Ziegfeld - Revue . Photo taken around 1927

General

Radio

  • January 2nd - In Paris , the first religious radio broadcast ( L'Evanglie par dessus les toîts ) goes over the airwaves.
  • February 23 - US President Calvin Coolidge founds the Federal Radio Commission , the predecessor of today's Federal Communications Commission .
  • May 6th - In Istanbul , Türk Telsiz-Telefon Anonim Şirketi (roughly: "Turkish Wireless Telephone Company") starts Turkey's first regular radio broadcasting service. The programs can only be received by around 2,000 radio sets available in the country.

watch TV

  • April 7 - The Bell Laboratories transmitted by means of telephone cables a speech by US Secretary of Commerce (and later president) Herbert Hoover to a distance of 200 Miles (about 321 km). This is the first successful long-distance transmission of a television signal.
  • May 24 - Scottish television pioneer John Logie Baird transmits a television signal over telephone cables between London and Glasgow .
  • September 7th - With the help of a cathode ray tube , the American inventor and television pioneer Philo Farnsworth succeeds in demonstrating the transmission of an image in a purely electronic way under laboratory conditions.

Born

Day unknown

See also

Portal: TV  - Overview of Wikipedia content on TV
Portal: Radio  - Overview of Wikipedia content on radio

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. On the history of the TRT radio , TRT-World, accessed on October 17, 2010