The year 1925 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history.

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Debuts

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  • 14 January – First broadcast on Swedish national radio (AB Radiotjänst) of one of the world's longest-running radio programmes, Barnens brevlåda ("Children's letterbox"), which will run for 1,785 editions – all presented by "Uncle Sven" (the radio sports commentator Sven Jerring) – until 1972.
  • 21 March – Lowell Thomas is first heard on the radio on Pittsburgh station KDKA.
  • 31 March – Radio station WOWO in Fort Wayne, Indiana begins broadcasting.
  • 8 April – Station WADC commences regular programming in Akron, Ohio. It had debuted earlier (in February 1925) as a temporary station during a car show held at the Central Garage, the call letters standing for the station's sponsor, the Automotive Dealers Company. Known from 2 June 2005 as WARF, it becomes Akron's oldest surviving radio station.
  • 23 September – In Decatur IL, WJBL signs on, now referred to as WSOY.
  • 4 October – The Atwater Kent Hour debuts on WEAF and 10 other connected stations.[5]
  • 5 October – WSM signs on in Nashville, Tennessee.
  • 15 November – First transmission from Radio RV-10 in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (modern-day Belarus).
  • 28 November – The weekly country music-variety program Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee,[5] as the "WSM Barn Dance".
  • 24 December – KMOX begins broadcasting in St. Louis, Missouri.

Closings

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  • April – WGI-Medford Hillside, Massachusetts declares bankruptcy and shuts down for good; this leaves WBZ-Springfield as the oldest surviving station in New England.
  • Undated – WAAB 1150 AM ceases broadcasting. 1150 AM will return the next year as WJBO.

Births

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References

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  1. ^ "Facts, Firsts and Precedents". Fifty-Seventh Presidential Inauguration. United States Senate. Archived from the original on 18 January 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  2. ^ "Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft m.b.H. (RRG)" (PDF). dra.de (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  3. ^ Bressler, Eva Susanne (2009). Von der Experimentierbühne zum Propagandainstrument: die Geschichte der Funkausstellung von 1924 bis 1939. Köln; Weimar: Böhlau Verlag. p. 108. ISBN 978-3-412-20241-5.
  4. ^ Tomalin, Norman (1998). Daventry Calling the World (PDF). Whitby: Caedmon. ISBN 0-905355-46-6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  5. ^ a b Dunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3.