Radio year 1931

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"Hear, all peoples": Pope Pius XI. opened, assisted by Guglielmo Marconi , Vatican Radio with a quote from the Bible

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In the USA , RCA Victor introduces the first usable long-playing record . The new sound carrier, which is able to store more than 33 minutes of music, cannot gain acceptance due to the lack of playback devices, but also because of the generally difficult economic situation.
January 22nd - Ceremonial opening of the radio building " Haus des Rundfunks " in Berlin's Masurenallee. The Funk-Hour Berlin , the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft mbH , Deutsche Welle GmbH and the Rundfunk-Museum move in here .
May 1 - US President Herbert Hoover opens the 443-meter-high Empire State Building (with antenna) , the tallest building on earth at the time, replacing the Chrysler Building that was completed just a year earlier with this record .
May 11th - German banking crisis : collapse of the Austrian Creditanstalt and the Darmstädter und Nationalbank . In the autumn, the gold convertibility of the British pound sterling is given up under pressure from speculators .

1931: A television transmitter is installed on the roof of the Empire State Building

January 27 - The US radio station NBC Blue Network premieres the first episode of Clara, Lu 'n' Em , the first daily soap in radio history.

February 5 - Eddie Cantor 's radio debut in Rudy Vallee's The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour .

February 12th - With a message ( O Heaven, hear what I am about to say, O earth hear the word of my mouth, O peoples all hear ) from Pope Pius XI. on the 9th anniversary of his coronation and two years after the conclusion of the Lateran Treaty , Vatican Radio begins operations. For the first time a Catholic leader can be heard on the radio. The speech, which is partly in Latin , is being used by many broadcasters around the world, including the Austrian RAVAG . The broadcaster, an internationally acclaimed expression of the Holy See's newly acquired sovereignty under international law , remained in the experimental stage for years before it became one of the few remaining free radio stations in Europe after the outbreak of World War II, alongside the BBC .

September 2 - Bing Crosby makes his first radio appearance.

December 25 - NBC Blue Network begins regular live broadcasts of Saturday afternoon performances from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City .

July 21 - The CBS -Anstalt W2XAB begins in New York City with regular broadcasting of television programs for 28 hours in a week. The first broadcast features New York Mayor Jimmy Walker , singer Kate Smith and composer and conductor George Gershwin .
August - Manfred von Ardenne demonstrates the world's first fully electronic television system at the Berlin radio exhibition .
October 30 - NBC installs a television station on the roof of the Empire State Building .
November 1st - In Tokyo , 80-line television pictures are being transmitted at a frequency of 20 frames per second as an experiment.

March 11 - Rupert Murdoch , Australian media entrepreneur, is born in Melbourne .
March 22 - William Shatner , Canadian film actor (Captain Kirk in Spaceship Enterprise , 1966–1969) and temporary musician ( The Transformed Man , 1969), was born in Montreal .
March 26 - Leonard Nimoy , American film actor (Mr. Spock in Star Trek ) and temporary musician, was born in Boston , Massachusetts († 2015).
April 15 - Kurt Weinzierl , Austrian actor ( The Piefke saga , Kottan determined , A real Viennese does not go under ), was born in Innsbruck († 2008).
April 26 - Bernie Brillstein , American film and television producer, was born in New York City († 2008).
May 26th - Willibald Hilf , former director of Südwestrundfunk and chairman of ARD (1986–87), was born in Niederlahnstein († 2004).
July 27 - Jerry Van Dyke , American comedian, was born in Danville, Illinois († 2018).
September 21 - Larry Hagman , American actor, was born in Fort Worth , Texas († 2012).
October 17 - Ernst Hinterberger , Austrian writer and television author ( A real Viennese does not go under , 1975–79), was born in Vienna († 2012).

March 3rd - Otto Reutter , German cabaret artist, actor and couplet singer dies at the age of 60 in Düsseldorf .

International radio and television chronicle. In: rfcb.ch. Archived from the original on December 16, 2016 ; accessed on December 16, 2016 .
TV programs from yesterday and the day before yesterday
Aerial view of the "Haus des Rundfunks" in Masurenallee in Berlin
Steven E. Schoenherr: Network Television. In: sandiego.edu. March 15, 2004, archived from the original on October 15, 2009 ; Retrieved October 15, 2009 (American English, Chronology of Early American Television Stations).