1925 in radio

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

Events

• 1 January: In Sweden AB Radiotjänst (forerunner of Sveriges Radio) broadcasts its first programme.
• 8 March: Westinghouse Electric, owner of KDKA-AM among other stations, announces from its Pittsburgh headquarters a proposal to form "radio networks" via shortwave technology.
• 17 June: Unión Radio opens station EAJ-7 Radio Madrid.
• 25 September: The Berliner Funkturm (Berlin Radio Tower) begins transmissions.

Debuts

• 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 was to run for 1,785 editions – all presented by "Uncle Sven" (the radio sports commentator Sven Jerring) – until 1972.
• 8 April: WARF-Akron, Ohio (today WARF) commences regular programming; it debuted as a temporary station during a car show at the Central Garage earlier that February; the call letters stand for the sponsor, the Automotive Dealers Company. It is the oldest surviving station in the city today.
• 21 March: Lowell Thomas is first heard on the radio on the Pittsburgh station KDKA.

Closings

• 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 would return the next year as WJBO.

Births

• 15 May: Regis Cordic, (died 1999), American radio personality and actor.
• 7 July: Wally Phillips, (died 2008), American radio personality best known for hosting WGN's morning radio show from Chicago for 21 years.
• 28 September: Jerry Clower (died 1998), country comedian best known for his stories of the rural South, appeared on WSM in Nashville, Tennessee.
• 31 October: Shirley Dinsdale (died 1999), ventriloquist and television and radio personality of the 1940s and early 1950s.

Deaths

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