1927 in radio

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The year 1927 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.

Contents 1 Events 2 Debuts 3 Closings 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References

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• 1 January – NBC makes the first ever coast-to-coast network radio broadcast of a Rose Bowl Game.
• 2 January - The Reverend Claude Lhande makes the first religious broadcast on French radio, beginning a series of talks on Radio Paris entitled L'Évangile par dessus les Toits.
• 21 January – A performance in Chicago, Illinois, of Faust is the first opera to be broadcast over a national radio network.
• 23 February – The Federal Radio Commission (later to be replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) is created by Calvin Coolidge.
• 4 March – First broadcast from the Wileńskie Biuro Radiotechniczne radio station in Vilnius (then in Poland, now in Lithuania).^[1]
• 11 March – Station PCJ, based at the Philips Laboratories in Eindhoven, makes the first short-wave broadcasts from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies.
• 31 March – the Philips company scores a publicity coup when Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands addresses the colonial population via its PCJ transmitter.^[2]
• 6 May – Türk Telsiz-Telefon Anonim Şirketi ("Turkish Wireless Telephony Ltd") begins radio broadcasting in Istanbul.
• 1 June – Radio Rennes PTT begins regular transmissions in Brittany.
• 1 July – 23 Canadian radio stations combine forces to make the country's first nationwide broadcast, covering celebrations of the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation.^[3]
• 21 August – The BBC starts high-power medium-wave transmissions to the English Midlands from station 5GB Daventry on 610 kHz.

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• 24 June – Chuck Niles, (d. 2004), only jazz disc jockey to be on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

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