Broadcasting year 1940

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A detector receiver from Siemens (1940)

General

Radio

The June 18th appeal: Charles de Gaulle calls on the French to resist via the BBC
  • The Sunset Valley Barn Dance (KSTP) first airs in Saint Paul , Minnesota.
  • The WSB Barn Dance premieres in Atlanta , Georgia.
  • February 12 - The American radio play series The Adventures of Superman premieres on New York's medium-wave broadcaster WOR .
  • March 23 - The US quiz show Truth or Consequences launches on CBS . She was so successful that in 1950 the small town of Hot Springs in New Mexico was renamed after her.
  • April 1st - The British authorities introduce radio in Sudan . The first transmitter, Radio Omdurman , will be installed in the Omdurman post office .
  • June 9th - Start of the standard program for all German Reich broadcasters .
  • June 18 - During the campaign in the west , Charles de Gaulle called on the French to resist the German occupation in a radio address (“ Appeal of June 18 ”) on the BBC in London. The message barely gets through as few French are able to receive the BBC. As was customary with radio broadcasts at that time, the speech is not automatically recorded and archived, so that the versions that circulated after the war are only reconstructions.
  • June 25th - French radio stations cease broadcasting.
  • Summer - The BBC starts a satirical series with Mrs. Wernicke about the politics of the National Socialists.
  • September 6th - The BBC starts broadcasting “Les Français parlent aux Français” for occupied France. In the French capital, however, Radio Paris became the most important instrument of German occupation propaganda, whereupon the BBC repeatedly added the slogan "Radio Paris ment, Radio Paris ment, Radio Paris est allemand" to the well-known melody of the Mexican revolutionary song La Cucaracha . Radio Paris is German ”) broadcasts.
  • October 15 - In Broadcasting House , the headquarters of the BBC in London, seven employees are killed in a bomb drop by German planes.
  • December 24th - Germany's broadcaster designed a Christmas ring broadcast for the first time .
  • December 29th - The title of the 16th edition of Fireside Chats is "On National Security". In it, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt coined the term “The Arsenal of Democracy” under the impression that Europe was largely occupied by Germany and subject to dictators like Stalin , Franco and Mussolini . He warns urgently of a collapse of Great Britain, since in this case the Axis powers would have such enormous resources at their disposal that the security of the American continent and the USA itself would be endangered.

Born

Died

  • March 24th - Édouard Branly , French physicist and pioneer of early radio technology dies at the age of 95 in Paris . Branly constructed the coherer in 1890 , a decisive part of the invention in later radio technology.
  • August 24th - Paul Nipkow , German technician and television pioneer, inventor of the Nipkow disk, dies two days after his 80th birthday in Berlin .

See also

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

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