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Overview of the events of 1954 in radio
The year 1954 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.
20 January – The National Negro Network is formed in the United States.
25 January – First broadcast of Dylan Thomas 's radio play Under Milk Wood , two months after its author's death, with Richard Burton as 'First Voice', on the BBC Third Programme .
1 February – KECA and KECA-FM, two Los Angeles stations, change their call letters to KABC and KABC-FM respectively, reflecting their new ownership by ABC -United Paramount Theaters .
1 April – ABC -United Paramount Theaters , owners of WENR-Chicago, purchase time-share counterpart WLS -Chicago from Sears, Roebuck and Co. , and merge both stations under the WLS call sign (their FM sister station would keep the WENR call sign until 1965).
15 July – The Nippon Broadcasting System initiates its first official regular broadcasting service in Tokyo , Japan .
18 October – Texas Instruments announces the development of the first commercial transistor radio . The Regency TR-1 goes on sale the following month.
17 November – WJW (AM ) in Cleveland , Ohio (later WKNR ) is sold by William M. O'Neill to Storer Broadcasting .
Endings [ edit ]
12 January – Howard Stern , American shock jock radio personality
22 August – Kurt Andersen , American novelist, columnist and public radio host
26 August – Steve Wright , English DJ
27 August – Andrew Marshall , English comedy scriptwriter
8 September – Joe Cipriano , American voice over actor and radio personality
3 October – Al Sharpton , American activist, minister, and radio talk show host
20 November – Steve Dahl , American radio personality and humorist
27 November – Arthur Smith , English comedian and radio presenter
5 December – Peter Arbogast, American sportscaster
References [ edit ]
^ a b c d e 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 .
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Dunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3 .
^ "Newest Radio Station Put on Air Here", Raleigh News & Observer , 27 October 1954, page 11.
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 978-0-14-102715-9 .
^ "C.B.S. Will Resume Series of Lectures" . The New York Times . 18 September 1954. Archived from the original on 18 July 2022. Retrieved 17 July 2022 .
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