1956 in radio

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
List of years in radio (table)
In television
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959

Events

  • February 13 – NBC and Westinghouse Broadcasting consummate a station ownership trade which saw NBC attaining owned-and-operated AM and TV stations in Philadelphia (renamed WRCV), and Westinghouse receiving NBC's AM, FM and TV stations in Cleveland (all of which took the KYW callsign). A later legal battle found that NBC engaged in extortion to make the trade happen, even threatening to pull the NBC-TV affiliation off of both Westinghouse's TV stations in Philadelphia and Boston. The swap was reversed by the FCC in June 1965.
  • September 24 - Manila Chronicle owners Eugenio Lopez, Sr. and Fernando Lopez of the Philippines established Chronicle Broadcasting Network and launches AM stations DZXL 960 (The Voice of the People), DZQL Radio Reloj, and the first FM station DZYL-FM 102.1 MHz (now MOR 101.9).
  • November 9 – The Pittsburgh Police "emergency band" frequency goes wild receiving Cuban police dispatches and squawks from a Sheffield, England public safety band. The transmissions are never explained but cease by nightfall.

Debuts

  • January 22 – Fort Laramie debuts on CBS.
  • January 27 – CBS Radio Workshop debuts on CBS.[1]
  • January 29 – Indictment debuts on CBS.
  • 19 May – First edition of the popular record request programme Sveriges bilradio (1956–1973) on Sveriges Radiotjänst (forerunner of Sveriges Radio).
  • August 15: WWRI-West Warwick, Rhode Island begins broadcasting.

Closings

Births

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Dunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3.
  2. Cox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-3848-8.
  3. Guiding Light trivia imdb.com. Retrieved April 9, 2009.


<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>